RomanceDent, 1949 - 541 pages |
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Page 32
... standing up unsteadily , growled , " We may do it yet ! See , señor ! " The blue gleam was much larger - it flared smokily up towards the sky . I made out ghastly parallelograms of a ship's sails high above us , and at last many faces ...
... standing up unsteadily , growled , " We may do it yet ! See , señor ! " The blue gleam was much larger - it flared smokily up towards the sky . I made out ghastly parallelograms of a ship's sails high above us , and at last many faces ...
Page 266
... standing in- shore with a light wind , had not approached the bay near enough to be conveniently attacked till just after dusk . They had waited for her all the afternoon , sleep- ing and gambling on the spit of sand . But something ...
... standing in- shore with a light wind , had not approached the bay near enough to be conveniently attacked till just after dusk . They had waited for her all the afternoon , sleep- ing and gambling on the spit of sand . But something ...
Page 439
... standing off and on out- side the harbour , as an armed man may pace to and fro before a gate . With the hum of six hundred wakeful lives in her flanks , the tap - tapping of a drum , and the shrill modulations of the boatswain's calls ...
... standing off and on out- side the harbour , as an armed man may pace to and fro before a gate . With the hum of six hundred wakeful lives in her flanks , the tap - tapping of a drum , and the shrill modulations of the boatswain's calls ...
Contents
THE QUARRY AND THE BEACH | 3 |
THE GIRL WITH THE LIZARD | 57 |
CASA RIEGO | 139 |
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