Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page, 1914 - 428 pages |
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Page 11
... sound , flapping away against the branches . My pulse was dancing with delight - my heart , too . It was like a game of hide - and - seek , and yet it was life at last . Everything grew silent again , and I began to think I had missed ...
... sound , flapping away against the branches . My pulse was dancing with delight - my heart , too . It was like a game of hide - and - seek , and yet it was life at last . Everything grew silent again , and I began to think I had missed ...
Page 12
... sound of horses ' hoofs - a sound like the beating of the heart , intermittent - a muffled thud on turf , and a faint clink of iron . It seemed to die away unheard by the runner beside me . Presently there was a crackling of the short ...
... sound of horses ' hoofs - a sound like the beating of the heart , intermittent - a muffled thud on turf , and a faint clink of iron . It seemed to die away unheard by the runner beside me . Presently there was a crackling of the short ...
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... sound of heavy horses at a jolting trot came to our ears . " We're in for it , " Lillywhite grunted . " D - n this county of Kent . " Thoms never loosed his hold of my collar . At the steep of the hill the men and horses came into sight ...
... sound of heavy horses at a jolting trot came to our ears . " We're in for it , " Lillywhite grunted . " D - n this county of Kent . " Thoms never loosed his hold of my collar . At the steep of the hill the men and horses came into sight ...
Page 15
... sound of whispering . Then a new voice cried , " Strip the runners to the shirt . Strip ' em . That's it . " I heard some groans and a cry , " You won't murder us . " Then a nasal drawl , " We will sure - ly . " Someone else , Rangsley ...
... sound of whispering . Then a new voice cried , " Strip the runners to the shirt . Strip ' em . That's it . " I heard some groans and a cry , " You won't murder us . " Then a nasal drawl , " We will sure - ly . " Someone else , Rangsley ...
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... sound of a fall ; then a precisely similar sequence of sounds . " That ' Il teach ' em , " Rangsley said ferociously . " Come along -they've only rolled down a bank . They weren't over the quarry . It's all right , I swear it is . " And ...
... sound of a fall ; then a precisely similar sequence of sounds . " That ' Il teach ' em , " Rangsley said ferociously . " Come along -they've only rolled down a bank . They weren't over the quarry . It's all right , I swear it is . " And ...
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