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... lion's cage . People appeared and disappeared in front of the lighted door ; windows stood open , with heads craning out all along the inn face . I was hurrying off the back of my horse when the admiral came out on to the steps ...
... lion's cage . People appeared and disappeared in front of the lighted door ; windows stood open , with heads craning out all along the inn face . I was hurrying off the back of my horse when the admiral came out on to the steps ...
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... Lion , which he part owned ; a man of some note for the dinners he gave on board his ship . His eyes sparkled blue and very round in a round rosy face , and he clawed effusively at my arm . " Well done ! " he bubbled over . " You gave ...
... Lion , which he part owned ; a man of some note for the dinners he gave on board his ship . His eyes sparkled blue and very round in a round rosy face , and he clawed effusively at my arm . " Well done ! " he bubbled over . " You gave ...
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... Lion . They were all dying to sce the show , and , half curious , half reluctant , I let myself drift with the crowd . The gallows themselves stood high enough to be seen - a long very stout beam supported by posts at each end . There ...
... Lion . They were all dying to sce the show , and , half curious , half reluctant , I let myself drift with the crowd . The gallows themselves stood high enough to be seen - a long very stout beam supported by posts at each end . There ...
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... Lion , and I rose to my feet . There did not seem to be any chance of my talking to the young girl . She was once more leaning nonchalantly over the lizard , and her hair drooped right across her face like clusters of grapes . There was ...
... Lion , and I rose to my feet . There did not seem to be any chance of my talking to the young girl . She was once more leaning nonchalantly over the lizard , and her hair drooped right across her face like clusters of grapes . There was ...
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... lions rampant , leopards courant , fleurs de lis , castles , eagles , hands , and arms . His eyes opened slowly , and his face assumed an easy , languorous smile of immense pleasure . " Ah , Juan , " he said , " se bienvienido , be ...
... lions rampant , leopards courant , fleurs de lis , castles , eagles , hands , and arms . His eyes opened slowly , and his face assumed an easy , languorous smile of immense pleasure . " Ah , Juan , " he said , " se bienvienido , be ...
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Page 115 - he would die of grief. The general effect of the place was of vitality exhausted, of a body calcined, of romance turned into stone. The still air, the hot sunshine, the white beach curving around the deserted sheet of water, the
Page 110 - I would like best to see you marry my cousin. Once before a woman of our race had married an Englishman. She had been happy. English things last forever—English peace, English power, English fidelity. It is a country of much serenity, of order,
Page 355 - WHY have I been brought here, your worships?" I asked, with a great deal of firmness. There were two figures in black, the one beside, the other behind a large black table. I was placed in front of them, between two soldiers, in the
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Page 349 - of my hair was concealed by the handkerchief bound under my hat; my footsteps echoed loudly under the vault, and I penetrated into the heart of the city. And directly, it seemed to me, I had stepped back three hundred years. I had never seen anything so old; this was the abandoned inheritance of an adventurous race, that seemed to have thrown all its might, all its
Page 404 - Who is it that refuses to drink a glass of brandy?' He asked me what countryman I was, and if I was an American." There were two others from the unfortunate