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... sight is not very good , my poor little father - there he is , your Ramon . " The warm reflection of the light behind her , gilding the curve of her face from ear to chin , lost itself in the shadows of black lace falling from dark hair ...
... sight is not very good , my poor little father - there he is , your Ramon . " The warm reflection of the light behind her , gilding the curve of her face from ear to chin , lost itself in the shadows of black lace falling from dark hair ...
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... sight against the white sky , a confused crowd of ominous things . " Turn that lanthorn off'n me , " the horseman said . " Don't you see you frighten my horse ? Now , boys , get round them . . . . " The great horses formed an irregular ...
... sight against the white sky , a confused crowd of ominous things . " Turn that lanthorn off'n me , " the horseman said . " Don't you see you frighten my horse ? Now , boys , get round them . . . . " The great horses formed an irregular ...
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... sight below me of the silver head and the deep red ears of the drunken uncle of Rangsley . He had been one of the most redoubtable of the family , a man of immense strength and cunning , but a confirmed habit of consuming a pint and a ...
... sight below me of the silver head and the deep red ears of the drunken uncle of Rangsley . He had been one of the most redoubtable of the family , a man of immense strength and cunning , but a confirmed habit of consuming a pint and a ...
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... sight of him at evenfall listening to Mrs. Macdonald ; he would be sitting beside her ham- mock on the veranda , his head very much down on his breast , very much on one side , and his great hump portending over his little white face ...
... sight of him at evenfall listening to Mrs. Macdonald ; he would be sitting beside her ham- mock on the veranda , his head very much down on his breast , very much on one side , and his great hump portending over his little white face ...
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... sight , and I was left facing the admiral . He stared at me contemptuously . I was streaming with perspiration and up- braiding him for assaulting a cripple . The admiral said , “ Oh , that's what you think ? I will settle with you ...
... sight , and I was left facing the admiral . He stared at me contemptuously . I was streaming with perspiration and up- braiding him for assaulting a cripple . The admiral said , “ Oh , that's what you think ? I will settle with you ...
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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