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... 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 Riego . That day ...
... 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 Riego . That day ...
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... Mind his knife . ” · · I'll tackle the other I was like a confounded rabbit in their hands . One of them had his fist on my collar and jerked me out upon the hard road . We rolled down the embankment , but he was on the top . It seemed ...
... Mind his knife . ” · · I'll tackle the other I was like a confounded rabbit in their hands . One of them had his fist on my collar and jerked me out upon the hard road . We rolled down the embankment , but he was on the top . It seemed ...
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... handy with their knives , mind me , and look to yourself with them . unnatural . " too , I fancy . You There's something His words had a certain effect upon me , and his manner perhaps more . A thing that was " unnatural " to 22 ROMANCE.
... handy with their knives , mind me , and look to yourself with them . unnatural . " too , I fancy . You There's something His words had a certain effect upon me , and his manner perhaps more . A thing that was " unnatural " to 22 ROMANCE.
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... mind dying under the water , " he remarked with a sigh , but without ceasing to bail for a moment . “ Ah , you are sorry to be leaving home , and your friends , and Spain , and your fine adventures , " I answered . The blue flare showed ...
... mind dying under the water , " he remarked with a sigh , but without ceasing to bail for a moment . “ Ah , you are sorry to be leaving home , and your friends , and Spain , and your fine adventures , " I answered . The blue flare showed ...
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... ness . " He began to cough violently . I said bitterly enough , " Yes . It will be always the same with me . I shall never see life . You've seen all that there is to see , so I suppose you do not mind settling down with an PART FIRST 31.
... ness . " He began to cough violently . I said bitterly enough , " Yes . It will be always the same with me . I shall never see life . You've seen all that there is to see , so I suppose you do not mind settling down with an PART FIRST 31.
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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