Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page & Company, 1903 - 541 pages |
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Page 276
... Sebright , you know . " " Certainly , sir . bo'sun . " · · Another hand to the brakes , " I have been held captive on shore , " I said . “ I escaped this evening , three hours ago . " " “ And found this ship in the fog ? You made a good ...
... Sebright , you know . " " Certainly , sir . bo'sun . " · · Another hand to the brakes , " I have been held captive on shore , " I said . “ I escaped this evening , three hours ago . " " “ And found this ship in the fog ? You made a good ...
Page 277
... Sebright's voice said to me . " Frighten us , eh ? Never you mind what this skunk says , men . Stand fast . We shall take a lot of kill- ing . " He was answered by a sort of pugnacious up- roar , a clash of cutlasses and laughter , as ...
... Sebright's voice said to me . " Frighten us , eh ? Never you mind what this skunk says , men . Stand fast . We shall take a lot of kill- ing . " He was answered by a sort of pugnacious up- roar , a clash of cutlasses and laughter , as ...
Page 286
... Sebright . The captain's gone in to show himself to the missus ; she wouldn't like to have him too much chip- ped . Wonderful is the love of woman . She sat up a bit later to - night with her fancy - sewing to see what might turn up . I ...
... Sebright . The captain's gone in to show himself to the missus ; she wouldn't like to have him too much chip- ped . Wonderful is the love of woman . She sat up a bit later to - night with her fancy - sewing to see what might turn up . I ...
Page 288
... Sebright with what strength of lung I had . What luck ! Williams was the jolly little ship's captain I was to have dined with on the day of execution on Kingston Point - the day I had been kidnapped . It seemed ages ago . I wanted to ...
... Sebright with what strength of lung I had . What luck ! Williams was the jolly little ship's captain I was to have dined with on the day of execution on Kingston Point - the day I had been kidnapped . It seemed ages ago . I wanted to ...
Page 294
... Sebright , walking at the elbow of a stout man in loose trousers and jacket . They stopped . " An unexpected meeting , Captain Williams , " was all I found to say to him . He had a constrained air , and shook hands in awkward silence ...
... Sebright , walking at the elbow of a stout man in loose trousers and jacket . They stopped . " An unexpected meeting , Captain Williams , " was all I found to say to him . He had a constrained air , and shook hands in awkward silence ...
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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.