Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page & Company, 1903 - 541 pages |
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... coming down that night , as we knew well enough , both of us . They were coming in force from Canterbury way down to the Marsh . It had cost Ralph a pretty penny ; but , once in the hands of the smugglers , his cousin and Castro would ...
... coming down that night , as we knew well enough , both of us . They were coming in force from Canterbury way down to the Marsh . It had cost Ralph a pretty penny ; but , once in the hands of the smugglers , his cousin and Castro would ...
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... coming to the mayor for new warrants to - morrow , and he'd not like to have spent the night in your company . He threw a casement open . The moon was hidden from us by clouds , but , a long way off , over the distant sea , there was an ...
... coming to the mayor for new warrants to - morrow , and he'd not like to have spent the night in your company . He threw a casement open . The moon was hidden from us by clouds , but , a long way off , over the distant sea , there was an ...
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... coming plainly to my ears in the stillness of my misery , and the large deserted steerage . One of them , new from home , was asking questions . Another answered : " Oh , I lost half a seroon the last voyage - the old thing . " " Haven ...
... coming plainly to my ears in the stillness of my misery , and the large deserted steerage . One of them , new from home , was asking questions . Another answered : " Oh , I lost half a seroon the last voyage - the old thing . " " Haven ...
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... coming to fetch his bundle . I went hastily into the distance of the vast , dim cavern of spare room that served for the steerage . " I want him very much , " Carlos said . " I like him . He would be of help to us . " " It's as your ...
... coming to fetch his bundle . I went hastily into the distance of the vast , dim cavern of spare room that served for the steerage . " I want him very much , " Carlos said . " I like him . He would be of help to us . " " It's as your ...
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... coming from them were a bewildering noise . They were hauling baggage about aimlessly . A large soft bundle of bedding nearly took me off my legs . There wasn't room for emotion . Macdonald laid about him with the handle of the umbrella ...
... coming from them were a bewildering noise . They were hauling baggage about aimlessly . A large soft bundle of bedding nearly took me off my legs . There wasn't room for emotion . Macdonald laid about him with the handle of the umbrella ...
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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...