Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page & Company, 1903 - 541 pages |
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... Admiral Rowley's , " it con- tinued . Then it rumbled out some remarks about " pirates , vermin , coast of Cuba . " Carlos came to the side , and looked after the man - of- war in the distance . " You could help us , " I heard him ...
... Admiral Rowley's , " it con- tinued . Then it rumbled out some remarks about " pirates , vermin , coast of Cuba . " Carlos came to the side , and looked after the man - of- war in the distance . " You could help us , " I heard him ...
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... admiral was an old fool - no good for this job . He's found out the name of the place the pirates come from - Rio Medio . That's the place , only he can't get in at it with his three - deckers . You saw his flagship ? " Rio Medio was ...
... admiral was an old fool - no good for this job . He's found out the name of the place the pirates come from - Rio Medio . That's the place , only he can't get in at it with his three - deckers . You saw his flagship ? " Rio Medio was ...
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... Admiral Rowley was understood to be going to make an energetic attempt upon the pirates who still infested the Gulf of Mexico and nearly ruined the Jamaica trade of those days . Naturally enough , we had talked of the mysterious town in ...
... Admiral Rowley was understood to be going to make an energetic attempt upon the pirates who still infested the Gulf of Mexico and nearly ruined the Jamaica trade of those days . Naturally enough , we had talked of the mysterious town in ...
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... Admiral Rowley , with his great ships , cannot rid the sea of them ? " He lowered his voice . " I tell you , young señor , that England will lose this Island of Jamaica over this business . You yourself are a Separa- tionist , are you ...
... Admiral Rowley , with his great ships , cannot rid the sea of them ? " He lowered his voice . " I tell you , young señor , that England will lose this Island of Jamaica over this business . You yourself are a Separa- tionist , are you ...
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... Admiral Rowley , a good fighting man ; but when it came to clearing the Gulf of Mexico , he was about as useless as a prize - fighter trying to clear a stable of rats . I don't suppose El Demonio really did more than a tithe of the ...
... Admiral Rowley , a good fighting man ; but when it came to clearing the Gulf of Mexico , he was about as useless as a prize - fighter trying to clear a stable of rats . I don't suppose El Demonio really did more than a tithe 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 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.