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... gone out of my mind . And my day before yesterday was the day on which I , at twenty - two , stood looking at myself in the tall glass , the day on which I left my home in Kent and went , as chance willed it , out to sea with Carlos ...
... gone out of my mind . And my day before yesterday was the day on which I , at twenty - two , stood looking at myself in the tall glass , the day on which I left my home in Kent and went , as chance willed it , out to sea with Carlos ...
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... gone Rooksby , Sir Peter that was , ride upon it past the quarry with his head under his arm . I don't think I believed in him , but I believed in the smugglers who shared the highway with that horrible ghost . It is impossible for ...
... gone Rooksby , Sir Peter that was , ride upon it past the quarry with his head under his arm . I don't think I believed in him , but I believed in the smugglers who shared the highway with that horrible ghost . It is impossible for ...
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... gone , and I envied him his going , with his air of mystery , to some far - off lawless adventures - perhaps over there in Spain , where there were war and rebellion . Shortly afterwards Rooksby proposed for the hand of Veronica and was ...
... gone , and I envied him his going , with his air of mystery , to some far - off lawless adventures - perhaps over there in Spain , where there were war and rebellion . Shortly afterwards Rooksby proposed for the hand of Veronica and was ...
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... gone to Russia at the tail of the Grande Armee , one could not help believing . He had been most likely in the grand army of sutlers and camp - followers . He could talk convincingly of the cold , and of the snows and his escape . And ...
... gone to Russia at the tail of the Grande Armee , one could not help believing . He had been most likely in the grand army of sutlers and camp - followers . He could talk convincingly of the cold , and of the snows and his escape . And ...
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... gone with him , then , had he asked me . “ One day , " he repeated , with an extraordinary cadence of tone . His hand was grasping mine ; it thrilled me like a woman's ; he stood shaking it very gently . " One day , " he said , “ I ...
... gone with him , then , had he asked me . “ One day , " he repeated , with an extraordinary cadence of tone . His hand was grasping mine ; it thrilled me like a woman's ; he stood shaking it very gently . " One day , " he said , “ I ...
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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
Page 108 - et armis, a nun from a convent, incurring the enmity of the Church and the displeasure of his sovereign. He had sacrificed all his fortune in Europe to the service of
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