Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page & Company, 1903 - 541 pages |
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... woman she was from the hands she employed on the farm . They were smugglers and night - malefactors to a man — and she liked that . The decent , slow - witted , gently devi- ous type of rustic could not live under her . The neighbours ...
... woman she was from the hands she employed on the farm . They were smugglers and night - malefactors to a man — and she liked that . The decent , slow - witted , gently devi- ous type of rustic could not live under her . The neighbours ...
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... woman . But he , at least , if we went down together , would go gallantly , and without com- plaint , at the end of a life with associations , movements , having lived and regretted . I should disappear in- ' gloriously on the very ...
... woman . But he , at least , if we went down together , would go gallantly , and without com- plaint , at the end of a life with associations , movements , having lived and regretted . I should disappear in- ' gloriously on the very ...
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... woman offended . was a gayness and gallantry in that part of it . He had known the very spirit of romance , and now he was sail- ing gallantly out to take up his inheritance from an uncle who was a great noble , owning the greater part ...
... woman offended . was a gayness and gallantry in that part of it . He had known the very spirit of romance , and now he was sail- ing gallantly out to take up his inheritance from an uncle who was a great noble , owning the greater part ...
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... woman's ; he stood shaking it very gently . " One day , " he said , " I shall repay what I owe you . I wished you with me , because I go into some danger . I wanted you . Good - by . Hasta mas ver . ” He leaned over and kissed me ...
... woman's ; he stood shaking it very gently . " One day , " he said , " I shall repay what I owe you . I wished you with me , because I go into some danger . I wanted you . Good - by . Hasta mas ver . ” He leaned over and kissed me ...
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... woman I have ever known - I suppose because she was childless . What was anomalous in my position had passed away with the next outward mail . Veronica wrote to me ; Ralph to his attorney and the Macdonalds . But by that time Mrs. Mac ...
... woman I have ever known - I suppose because she was childless . What was anomalous in my position had passed away with the next outward mail . Veronica wrote to me ; Ralph to his attorney and the Macdonalds . But by that time Mrs. Mac ...
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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...