Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page, 1914 - 428 pages |
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... influenced , a dilettante , and a bit of a dreamer , too . He had taken her into the swim of the Regency , and his purse had not held out . So my mother , asserting herself , had in- sisted upon a return to our farm , which had been her ...
... influenced , a dilettante , and a bit of a dreamer , too . He had taken her into the swim of the Regency , and his purse had not held out . So my mother , asserting herself , had in- sisted upon a return to our farm , which had been her ...
Page 21
... influence of ungovernable excitement . His stakes were very large , and all depended on the flicker of those lanthorns out towards the men on the luggers that were hidden in the black expanse of the sea . Then he waited , and against ...
... influence of ungovernable excitement . His stakes were very large , and all depended on the flicker of those lanthorns out towards the men on the luggers that were hidden in the black expanse of the sea . Then he waited , and against ...
Page 51
... influence . He subsisted a good deal on the charity of people like the Mac- donalds , and I used sometimes to catch sight of him at evenfall listening to Mrs. Macdonald ; he would be sitting beside her ham- mock on the veranda , his ...
... influence . He subsisted a good deal on the charity of people like the Mac- donalds , and I used sometimes to catch sight of him at evenfall listening to Mrs. Macdonald ; he would be sitting beside her ham- mock on the veranda , his ...
Page 52
... influence , had explained matters to a very great personage , had spent a little money on the injured runners . In the meanwhile I had nearly forgotten the whole matter ; it seemed to be extraordinary that they should still be ...
... influence , had explained matters to a very great personage , had spent a little money on the injured runners . In the meanwhile I had nearly forgotten the whole matter ; it seemed to be extraordinary that they should still be ...
Page 62
... influences , " had received him quite naturally as his heir , and the future head of the family . But Seraphina , whom by the laws of convenience he ought to have married , had quite calmly refused him . " I did not impress her ; she is ...
... influences , " had received him quite naturally as his heir , and the future head of the family . But Seraphina , whom by the laws of convenience he ought to have married , had quite calmly refused him . " I did not impress her ; she is ...
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