Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page & Company, 1903 - 541 pages |
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... Castro said . Rooksby came to a sudden halt , and began furiously to switch his corded legs . " Curse Carlos , and his Castro , too . They'll have me in jail betwixt them . They're both in my red barn , if you want their direction . He ...
... Castro said . Rooksby came to a sudden halt , and began furiously to switch his corded legs . " Curse Carlos , and his Castro , too . They'll have me in jail betwixt them . They're both in my red barn , if you want their direction . He ...
Page 11
... Castro pulls out a watch , and the old fellow jumps on it , vows it's his own , taken from him years before by some picaroons on his outward voyage . Out from the agent's comes another , and swears that Castro is one of the self - same ...
... Castro pulls out a watch , and the old fellow jumps on it , vows it's his own , taken from him years before by some picaroons on his outward voyage . Out from the agent's comes another , and swears that Castro is one of the self - same ...
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... Castro in a little fir - wood above the quarry , in half an hour's time . All I had to do was to whistle three bars of " Lillibulero , as a signal . A connection had been already arranged with the Free Traders on the road beside the ...
... Castro in a little fir - wood above the quarry , in half an hour's time . All I had to do was to whistle three bars of " Lillibulero , as a signal . A connection had been already arranged with the Free Traders on the road beside the ...
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... Castro . " She passes down channel to - night , then ? " Rangsley said . " With this wind you'll want to be well out in the Bay at a quarter after eleven . " An abnormal scuffling , intermingled with snatches of jovial remonstrance ...
... Castro . " She passes down channel to - night , then ? " Rangsley said . " With this wind you'll want to be well out in the Bay at a quarter after eleven . " An abnormal scuffling , intermingled with snatches of jovial remonstrance ...
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... Castro , I was surprised to notice , knew more than I did about a boat , and , maimed as he was , made himself useful . " To me it looks as if we should drown , " Carlos said at one point , very quietly . " I am sorry for you , Juan ...
... Castro , I was surprised to notice , knew more than I did about a boat , and , maimed as he was , made himself useful . " To me it looks as if we should drown , " Carlos said at one point , very quietly . " I am sorry for you , Juan ...
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admiral Alguazil answered asked began boat Bow Street runners bowed breath caballero called Carlos Casa Riego cloak cried Cuba dark dead death deck Don Balthasar Don Carlos door ears El Rubio English eyes face Father Antonio fear feet felt glance gone hair hand hang Havana head heard heart honour immense Inglez Jamaica John Kemp Juan Juez Kemp Kingston knew lanthorn laughed light Lion lips looked Lord Stowell Lugareņos Macdonald Manuel matter murder murmured never Nichols night O'Brien once pirates Ramon Rangsley ravine Rio Medio romance Rooksby round sail saturnine schooner Sebright seemed seen Seņor Seņorita Seraphina shadow ship shoulders shouted side sight silence smile sort soul sound Spanish stood suddenly talk tell thing thought throat Tomas Castro turned uncle voice walked wall whispered Williams woman words
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Page 53 - He will get us murdered," he said. "Do you think we are safe here? If these people here heard that name they wouldn't wait to ask who your worship is. They would tear us to pieces in an instant. I tell you — moi, Tomas Castro — he will ruin us, this white fool " Carlos began to cough, shaken speechless as if by an invisible devil. Castro's eyes ran furtively all round him, then he looked at me. He made an extraordinary swift motion with his right hand, and I saw that he was facing me with a long...
Page 6 - ... from the hand whose delicate blueveined, wrinkled wrist ran back into a foam of lawn ruffles. The other hand paused in the act of conveying a pinch of snuff to the nostrils of the hooked nose that had, on the skin stretched tight over the bridge, the polish of old ivory; the elbow pressing the black cocked hat against the side; the legs, one bent, the other bowing a little back — this was the attitude of Seraphina's father. Having imperiously thrust the door of the inner room open, he remained...