Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page, 1903 |
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... eyes were gray — the gray of black , not of blue . For a moment they looked me straight in the face , reflectively , unconcerned , and then traveled to the spectacles of old Ramon . This glance - remember I was young on that day - had ...
... eyes were gray — the gray of black , not of blue . For a moment they looked me straight in the face , reflectively , unconcerned , and then traveled to the spectacles of old Ramon . This glance - remember I was young on that day - had ...
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... eyes , and a face with the color and texture of a white - heart cherry . He used to spend his days in a hooded chair . My mother managed everything , leading an out - of - door life which gave her face the color of a wrinkled pippin ...
... eyes , and a face with the color and texture of a white - heart cherry . He used to spend his days in a hooded chair . My mother managed everything , leading an out - of - door life which gave her face the color of a wrinkled pippin ...
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... eyes - a good mate for Rooksby . Rooksby had foreign relations , too . The uncle from whom he inherited the Priory had married a Riego , a Cas- tilian , during the Peninsular war . He had been a prisoner at the time - he.had died in ...
... eyes - a good mate for Rooksby . Rooksby had foreign relations , too . The uncle from whom he inherited the Priory had married a Riego , a Cas- tilian , during the Peninsular war . He had been a prisoner at the time - he.had died in ...
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... eyes . A man sprang at me and thrust some- thing cold and knobby into my neckcloth . The light continued to blaze into my eyes ; it moved upwards and shone on a red waistcoat dashed with gilt buttons . I was being arrested . . . . “ In ...
... eyes . A man sprang at me and thrust some- thing cold and knobby into my neckcloth . The light continued to blaze into my eyes ; it moved upwards and shone on a red waistcoat dashed with gilt buttons . I was being arrested . . . . “ In ...
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... eyes upon us , looking out of the thick dark- ness . A slight rustling came from the corner that hid Castro . " She passes down channel to - night , then ? " Rangsley said . " With this wind you'll want to be well out in the Bay at a ...
... eyes upon us , looking out of the thick dark- ness . A slight rustling came from the corner that hid Castro . " She passes down channel to - night , then ? " Rangsley said . " With this wind you'll want to be well out in the Bay at a ...
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