Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page & Company, 1903 - 541 pages |
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... looked me straight in the face , reflectively , unconcerned , and then travelled to the spectacles of old Ramon . This glance remember I was young on that day- had been enough to set me wondering what they were thinking of me ; what ...
... looked me straight in the face , reflectively , unconcerned , and then travelled to the spectacles of old Ramon . This glance remember I was young on that day- had been enough to set me wondering what they were thinking of me ; what ...
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... looked after , might end their days in some marsh - dyke . It was desirable that someone well known in our parts should see them to the seashore . A boat , there , was to take them out into the bay , where an outward - bound West ...
... looked after , might end their days in some marsh - dyke . It was desirable that someone well known in our parts should see them to the seashore . A boat , there , was to take them out into the bay , where an outward - bound West ...
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... looked up at me . “ This ain't— Mr. Lillywhite , I don't believe this ain't a Jack Spaniard . " The clinks of bits and stirrup - irons came down in a waft again . .. " That be hanged for a tale , Thoms , " the man with the lanthorn said ...
... looked up at me . “ This ain't— Mr. Lillywhite , I don't believe this ain't a Jack Spaniard . " The clinks of bits and stirrup - irons came down in a waft again . .. " That be hanged for a tale , Thoms , " the man with the lanthorn said ...
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... looked like a man mortally wounded , riding from a battle - field . " Let him come with us , " the musical voice of Carlos came through the mist in front of us . " He shall see the world a little . ” " For God's sake hold your tongue ...
... looked like a man mortally wounded , riding from a battle - field . " Let him come with us , " the musical voice of Carlos came through the mist in front of us . " He shall see the world a little . ” " For God's sake hold your tongue ...
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... looked up to need to - the justices and such like . But gallus birds like you and your company , it's best for us not to be seen in company with . Follow my uncle now . Good - night . " We went into the yard , under the pillars of the ...
... looked up to need to - the justices and such like . But gallus birds like you and your company , it's best for us not to be seen in company with . Follow my uncle now . Good - night . " We went into the yard , under the pillars of the ...
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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...