Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page & Company, 1903 - 541 pages |
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Page 35
... O'Brien , who mis- manages my uncle's affairs . What do I know ? The good Tomas has been in some villainy that is no affair of mine . He is a good friend and a faithful dependent of my family's . He certainly had that man's watch - the ...
... O'Brien , who mis- manages my uncle's affairs . What do I know ? The good Tomas has been in some villainy that is no affair of mine . He is a good friend and a faithful dependent of my family's . He certainly had that man's watch - the ...
Page 79
... , per- haps , a little of appeal . I sighed myself . " There is a man called O'Brien in there , " he said . " He does us the honour to pretend to my cousin's hand . " I felt singularly angry . " Well , he's not THE GIRL WITH THE LIZARD 79.
... , per- haps , a little of appeal . I sighed myself . " There is a man called O'Brien in there , " he said . " He does us the honour to pretend to my cousin's hand . " I felt singularly angry . " Well , he's not THE GIRL WITH THE LIZARD 79.
Page 80
... O'Brien . " He went once more to the inner door , and , after a moment's whispering with someone within , returned to me . " My uncle still sleeps , " he said . " I must keep you a little longer . Ah , yes , the Señor O'Brien . He shall ...
... O'Brien . " He went once more to the inner door , and , after a moment's whispering with someone within , returned to me . " My uncle still sleeps , " he said . " I must keep you a little longer . Ah , yes , the Señor O'Brien . He shall ...
Page 81
... O'Brien . My uncle is a very old man , and if I die before him , this O'Brien , I think , will end by marrying my cousin , because my poor uncle is very much in his hands . There are other pretenders , but they have little chance ...
... O'Brien . My uncle is a very old man , and if I die before him , this O'Brien , I think , will end by marrying my cousin , because my poor uncle is very much in his hands . There are other pretenders , but they have little chance ...
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... O'Brien . " It's little use saying ye arren't famous , " he said . His voice had the faint , infinitely sweet twang of certain Irishry ; a thing as delicate and intangible as the scent of lime flowers . " Our noble friend " -he ...
... O'Brien . " It's little use saying ye arren't famous , " he said . His voice had the faint , infinitely sweet twang of certain Irishry ; a thing as delicate and intangible as the scent of lime flowers . " Our noble friend " -he ...
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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 157 - Carlos' room, with many cigarettes stuck behind his ears and in the band of his hat. When these were gone he grubbed for more in the depths of his clothing, somewhere near his skin. Puffs of smoke issued from his pursed lips; and the desolation of his pose, the sorrow of his round, wrinkled face, was so great that it seemed were he to cease smoking, he would die of grief. The general effect of the place was of vitality exhausted, of a body calcined, of romance turned into stone. The still air, the...
Page 51 - I was tired ; Romance had departed. Barnes and the Macdonald he had found for me represented all the laborious insects of the world ; all the ants who are for ever hauling immensely heavy and immensely unimportant burdens up weary hillocks, down steep places, getting nowhere and doing nothing.
Page 153 - ... lonely echoes, and strips of grass outlined in parallelograms the flagstones of the roadway. The Casa Riego raised its buttressed and loop-holed bulk near the shore, resembling a defensive outwork; on my other hand the shallow bay, vast, placid, and shining, extended itself behind the strip of coast like an enormous lagoon. The fronds of palmclusters dotted the beach over the glassy shimmer of the far distance. The dark and wooded slopes of the hills closed the view inland on every side.
Page 532 - If there were to be any possibility of saving my life, I had to tell what I had been through — and to tell it vividly — I had to narrate the story of my life; and my whole life came into my mind.