Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page & Company, 1903 - 541 pages |
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... Señor Ramon ! Señor Ramon ! " and then twice : " Sera- phina - Seraphina ! " turning his head back . Then for the first time I saw Seraphina , looking over her father's shoulder . I remember her face on that day ; her eyes were gray ...
... Señor Ramon ! Señor Ramon ! " and then twice : " Sera- phina - Seraphina ! " turning his head back . Then for the first time I saw Seraphina , looking over her father's shoulder . I remember her face on that day ; her eyes were gray ...
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... Señor Ortiz , of the Minories , said you would know . " " Oh , I know , I know , " Rangsley said softly ; and , in- deed , he did know all that was to be known about smuggling out of the southern counties of people who could no longer ...
... Señor Ortiz , of the Minories , said you would know . " " Oh , I know , I know , " Rangsley said softly ; and , in- deed , he did know all that was to be known about smuggling out of the southern counties of people who could no longer ...
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... señor ! " The blue gleam was much larger - it flared smokily up towards the sky . I made out ghastly parallelograms of a ship's sails high above us , and at last many faces peering unseeingly over the rail in our direction . We all ...
... señor ! " The blue gleam was much larger - it flared smokily up towards the sky . I made out ghastly parallelograms of a ship's sails high above us , and at last many faces peering unseeingly over the rail in our direction . We all ...
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... Señor , unless that Irishman is consulted beforehand , or the English lord would undertake to join with the picaroons , it is very assuredly not safe . " Carlos made a little exclamation of mild astonish- ment . " Pero ? Is it so bad as ...
... Señor , unless that Irishman is consulted beforehand , or the English lord would undertake to join with the picaroons , it is very assuredly not safe . " Carlos made a little exclamation of mild astonish- ment . " Pero ? Is it so bad as ...
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... Señor Ramon , the merchant , even as I have . Vaya ; more I cannot tell you . " This struck me as curious , and a little of the whole mystery seemed from that time to attach to the second mate , who before had been no more to me than a ...
... Señor Ramon , the merchant , even as I have . Vaya ; more I cannot tell you . " This struck me as curious , and a little of the whole mystery seemed from that time to attach to the second mate , who before had been no more to me than a ...
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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 Lugareños 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 Señor Señorita 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...