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... caballero committed indiscretions , or quarreled -and all these people quarrel , why , God knows - that Irish devil could hang many persons , even myself , or take vengeance on your worship . " Carlos was silent as if in a reverie . At ...
... caballero committed indiscretions , or quarreled -and all these people quarrel , why , God knows - that Irish devil could hang many persons , even myself , or take vengeance on your worship . " Carlos was silent as if in a reverie . At ...
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... caballero going over , too ? " he asked . Carlos said , " No. I think not , now . " And at that moment the second mate , shouldering his way through a white - clothed crowd of shore people , made up behind Seņor Ramon . He held a letter ...
... caballero going over , too ? " he asked . Carlos said , " No. I think not , now . " And at that moment the second mate , shouldering his way through a white - clothed crowd of shore people , made up behind Seņor Ramon . He held a letter ...
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... caballero is pleased to give me credit R for a very great knowledge . What should I know of that town ? There are doubtless good men there and very wicked , as in other towns . Who knows ? Your worship must ask the boats ' crews that ...
... caballero is pleased to give me credit R for a very great knowledge . What should I know of that town ? There are doubtless good men there and very wicked , as in other towns . Who knows ? Your worship must ask the boats ' crews that ...
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... caballero like this . " " And how else was it to be done , to that kind of caballero ? " was the curt retort . By that time I had blinked my eyes into a condition for re- maining open for minute stretches . Two men were bending over me ...
... caballero like this . " " And how else was it to be done , to that kind of caballero ? " was the curt retort . By that time I had blinked my eyes into a condition for re- maining open for minute stretches . Two men were bending over me ...
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... caballero ; seize him . " And to me in his broken English he shouted , " You may resist , if you like . " This was what I meant to do with all my might . The ragged crowd surrounded me ; they chattered like monkeys . One man irri- tated ...
... caballero ; seize him . " And to me in his broken English he shouted , " You may resist , if you like . " This was what I meant to do with all my might . The ragged crowd surrounded me ; they chattered like monkeys . One man irri- tated ...
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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
Page 108 - king, had fought against the French, had a price put upon his head by a special proclamation. He had known passion, power, war, exile, and love. He had been thanked by his returned king,
Page 165 - their long knives. They came in a disorderly, shouting mob along the beach, intending this not for an attack, but as a simple demonstration. The sight of the open gate struck them with wonder. The bishop's coach
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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
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