Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page, 1914 - 428 pages |
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Page 5
... perhaps , and stores of gold . In the family my mother counted ; my father did not . She was the daughter of a Scottish earl who had ruined himself again and again . He had been an inventor , a projector , and my mother had been a poor ...
... perhaps , and stores of gold . In the family my mother counted ; my father did not . She was the daughter of a Scottish earl who had ruined himself again and again . He had been an inventor , a projector , and my mother had been a poor ...
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... perhaps over there in Spain , where there were war and rebellion . Shortly afterwards Rooksby proposed for the hand of Veronica and was accepted - by my mother . Veronica went about looking happy . That upset me , too . It seemed unjust ...
... perhaps over there in Spain , where there were war and rebellion . Shortly afterwards Rooksby proposed for the hand of Veronica and was accepted - by my mother . Veronica went about looking happy . That upset me , too . It seemed unjust ...
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... 're handy with their knives , too , I fancy . You mind me , and look to yourself with them . There's something unnatural . " His words had a certain effect upon me , and his manner perhaps more . A thing that was " unnatural " to 22 ...
... 're handy with their knives , too , I fancy . You mind me , and look to yourself with them . There's something unnatural . " His words had a certain effect upon me , and his manner perhaps more . A thing that was " unnatural " to 22 ...
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... Perhaps he was tired of his life ; per- haps he really regretted what he left behind him in England , or somewhere else — some association , some woman . But he , at least , if we went down together , would go gallantly , and without ...
... Perhaps he was tired of his life ; per- haps he really regretted what he left behind him in England , or somewhere else — some association , some woman . But he , at least , if we went down together , would go gallantly , and without ...
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... perhaps , I do not ask . It was Castro your police wished to take . But I , bon Dieu , do you think I would take watches ? " " I certainly did not think he had taken a watch ; but I did not relinquish the idea that he , in a glamorous ...
... perhaps , I do not ask . It was Castro your police wished to take . But I , bon Dieu , do you think I would take watches ? " " I certainly did not think he had taken a watch ; but I did not relinquish the idea that he , in a glamorous ...
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