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... immovable , with no intention of entering , and called in a harsh , aged voice : " Señor Ramon ! Señor Ramon ! " and then twice : " Seraphina - Seraphina ! " turning his head back . Then for the first time I saw Seraphina , looking.
... immovable , with no intention of entering , and called in a harsh , aged voice : " Señor Ramon ! Señor Ramon ! " and then twice : " Seraphina - Seraphina ! " turning his head back . Then for the first time I saw Seraphina , looking.
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... voice shouted back . " What be you a - doing with runners ? " The riot went on - forty or fifty voices . The runners were seized ; several hands caught at me . It was impossible to make myself heard ; a fist struck me on the cheek ...
... voice shouted back . " What be you a - doing with runners ? " The riot went on - forty or fifty voices . The runners were seized ; several hands caught at me . It was impossible to make myself heard ; a fist struck me on the cheek ...
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... voices ceased suddenly . " Now , lads , bring ' em along . " A voice I knew said their watchword , " Snuff and enough , " loudly , and then , " What's agate ? " Someone else answered , " It's Rooksby , it's Sir Ralph . " The voice ...
... voices ceased suddenly . " Now , lads , bring ' em along . " A voice I knew said their watchword , " Snuff and enough , " loudly , and then , " What's agate ? " Someone else answered , " It's Rooksby , it's Sir Ralph . " The voice ...
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... voice said in a whisper . " Mum , now ! It's all right . " It withdrew itself a little from my ear and called , " Now then , ready with them . When I say three . . . " " I heard groans and curses , and began to shout for help . My voice ...
... voice said in a whisper . " Mum , now ! It's all right . " It withdrew itself a little from my ear and called , " Now then , ready with them . When I say three . . . " " I heard groans and curses , and began to shout for help . My voice ...
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... voice of Ralph , who was lamenting his own cowardice . " If it had come at any other time ! " he kept on repeating . " But now , with Veronica to think of ! - You take me , Johnny , don't you ? " My companions rode silently . After we ...
... voice of Ralph , who was lamenting his own cowardice . " If it had come at any other time ! " he kept on repeating . " But now , with Veronica to think of ! - You take me , Johnny , don't you ? " My companions rode silently . After we ...
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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
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