Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page & Company, 1903 - 541 pages |
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... thing , leading an out - of - door life which gave her face the colour of a wrinkled pippin . It was the face of a Roman mother , tight - lipped , brown - eyed , and fierce . You may understand the kind of woman she was from the hands ...
... thing , leading an out - of - door life which gave her face the colour of a wrinkled pippin . It was the face of a Roman mother , tight - lipped , brown - eyed , and fierce . You may understand the kind of woman she was from the hands ...
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... thing seemed incredible to me . Here was an adventure , and I was shocked to see that Rooksby was in a pitiable state about it . “ But , Ralph , ” I said , “ I would help Carlos . " " Oh , you , " he said fretfully . " You want to run ...
... thing seemed incredible to me . Here was an adventure , and I was shocked to see that Rooksby was in a pitiable state about it . “ But , Ralph , ” I said , “ I would help Carlos . " " Oh , you , " he said fretfully . " You want to run ...
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... thing that bounded and leapt within my chest , a little sickeningly . The other details I forget . Jack Rangsley was a tall , big - boned , thin man , with something sinister in the lines of his horseman's cloak , and something reckless ...
... thing that bounded and leapt within my chest , a little sickeningly . The other details I forget . Jack Rangsley was a tall , big - boned , thin man , with something sinister in the lines of his horseman's cloak , and something reckless ...
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... thing three times , he remembers - hark to him . " The drunken voice from below kept up a constant babble of , " Three men to be set aboard Thames three men to be set 99 " He'll not stop saying that till he has you safe aboard ...
... thing three times , he remembers - hark to him . " The drunken voice from below kept up a constant babble of , " Three men to be set aboard Thames three men to be set 99 " He'll not stop saying that till he has you safe aboard ...
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... thing that was " unnatural " to Jack Rangsley - the man of darkness , who lived forever as if in the shadow of the gallows - was a thing to be avoided . He was for me nearly as romantic a figure as Carlos himself , but for his ...
... thing that was " unnatural " to Jack Rangsley - the man of darkness , who lived forever as if in the shadow of the gallows - was a thing to be avoided . He was for me nearly as romantic a figure as Carlos himself , but for his ...
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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 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 waiting 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...