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... talk about them, the Riegos, and Veronica used to talk of what he said of them until they came to stand for Romance, the romance of the outer world, to me. One day, a little before Ralph and Veronica became engaged, these Spaniards ...
... talk about them, the Riegos, and Veronica used to talk of what he said of them until they came to stand for Romance, the romance of the outer world, to me. One day, a little before Ralph and Veronica became engaged, these Spaniards ...
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... talk about them , the Riegos , and Veronica used to talk of what he said of them until they came to stand for Romance , the romance of the outer world , to me . One day , a little before Ralph and Veronica became engaged , these ...
... talk about them , the Riegos , and Veronica used to talk of what he said of them until they came to stand for Romance , the romance of the outer world , to me . One day , a little before Ralph and Veronica became engaged , these ...
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... talk to me , he said , and I followed him out through the yard on to the soft road that climbs the hill to west- ward . The evening was falling slowly and mournfully ; it was dark already in the folds of the somber downs . We passed the ...
... talk to me , he said , and I followed him out through the yard on to the soft road that climbs the hill to west- ward . The evening was falling slowly and mournfully ; it was dark already in the folds of the somber downs . We passed the ...
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... talk as we go . " Someone helped me into a saddle ; my legs trembled in the stir- rups as if I had ridden a thousand miles on end already . I imagine I must have fallen into a stupor ; for I have only a vague impres- sion of somebody's ...
... talk as we go . " Someone helped me into a saddle ; my legs trembled in the stir- rups as if I had ridden a thousand miles on end already . I imagine I must have fallen into a stupor ; for I have only a vague impres- sion of somebody's ...
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... talk and wait . " No ; England , " he answered in a tone full of meaning- " things in England - people there . One person at least . " To me his words and his smile seemed to imply a bitter irony ; but they were said very earnestly ...
... talk and wait . " No ; England , " he answered in a tone full of meaning- " things in England - people there . One person at least . " To me his words and his smile seemed to imply a bitter irony ; but they were said very earnestly ...
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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
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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