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Page 33
... clear that I wanted to go with Carlos , and could pay for my passage , I was handed down into the steerage , where a tallow candle burnt in a thick , blue atmosphere . I was stripped and filled with some fiery liquid , and fell asleep ...
... clear that I wanted to go with Carlos , and could pay for my passage , I was handed down into the steerage , where a tallow candle burnt in a thick , blue atmosphere . I was stripped and filled with some fiery liquid , and fell asleep ...
Page 38
... think as I would about it , would not grow clear . It was plain that something illegal was going on there , or how could " that Irish devil , " whoever he was , have power to hang Tomas and be revenged on Carlos 38 ROMANCE.
... think as I would about it , would not grow clear . It was plain that something illegal was going on there , or how could " that Irish devil , " whoever he was , have power to hang Tomas and be revenged on Carlos 38 ROMANCE.
Page 42
... unhappy I felt , how in- explicably unhappy . Presently the reason was made clear . I was homesick . I gave no further thought to the second mate . I looked at the harbour we were entering , and thought of the home I had left 42 ROMANCE.
... unhappy I felt , how in- explicably unhappy . Presently the reason was made clear . I was homesick . I gave no further thought to the second mate . I looked at the harbour we were entering , and thought of the home I had left 42 ROMANCE.
Page 47
... clear . I felt a great desire to find Mac- donald , and a simple life that I could understand . " I am not going with you , " I said , very loudly this time . He stopped at once . Through the scuttle of the half - deck we heard a hubbub ...
... clear . I felt a great desire to find Mac- donald , and a simple life that I could understand . " I am not going with you , " I said , very loudly this time . He stopped at once . Through the scuttle of the half - deck we heard a hubbub ...
Page 53
... clear space beside a pile of boxes . Stooping over them was the angular figure of Nichols , the second mate . He looked up at me , screwing his yellow eyes together . " Going ashore , " he asked , " ' long of that Puffing Billy ...
... clear space beside a pile of boxes . Stooping over them was the angular figure of Nichols , the second mate . He looked up at me , screwing his yellow eyes together . " Going ashore , " he asked , " ' long of that Puffing Billy ...
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admiral Alguazil answered asked began boat Bow Street runners bowed breath caballero cabin called Carlos Casa Riego cloak cried Cuba dark dead death deck Don Balthasar Don Carlos door ears El Rubio English eyes face Father Antonio fear feet felt gone hair hand hang Havana head heard heart honour immense Inglez Jamaica John Kemp Juan Juez Kemp Kingston knew lanthorn laughed light Lion lips looked Lord Stowell Lugareņos Macdonald Manuel matter murder murmured never Nichols night O'Brien once pirates Ramon Rangsley ravine Rio Medio romance Rooksby round sail saturnine schooner Sebright seemed seen Seņor Seņorita Seraphina shadow ship shoulders shouted side sight silence smile sort soul sound Spanish stood suddenly talk tell thing thought throat Tomas Castro turned uncle voice walked wall whispered Williams woman words