Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page & Company, 1903 - 541 pages |
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... dark hair that was not quite black . She spoke as if the words clung to her lips ; as if she had to put them forth delicately for fear of damaging the frail things . She raised her long hand to a white flower that clung above her ear ...
... dark hair that was not quite black . She spoke as if the words clung to her lips ; as if she had to put them forth delicately for fear of damaging the frail things . She raised her long hand to a white flower that clung above her ear ...
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... dark , and of a grace to set Ralph as much in the shade as Ralph himself set me ; and Carlos had seen a deal more of the world than Ralph . He had a foreign sense of humour that made him forever ready to sacrifice his personal dignity ...
... dark , and of a grace to set Ralph as much in the shade as Ralph himself set me ; and Carlos had seen a deal more of the world than Ralph . He had a foreign sense of humour that made him forever ready to sacrifice his personal dignity ...
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... the fire , and knew pretty well what was going on outside . There would be long whistles in the dark , and when we found men lurking in our barns we feigned not to see them- it was safer so . The smugglers - the Free 8 ROMANCE.
... the fire , and knew pretty well what was going on outside . There would be long whistles in the dark , and when we found men lurking in our barns we feigned not to see them- it was safer so . The smugglers - the Free 8 ROMANCE.
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... dark already in the folds of the sombre downs . We passed the corner of the orchard . " I know what you've got to tell me , " I said . " You're going to marry Veronica . Well , you've no need of my blessing . Some people have all the ...
... dark already in the folds of the sombre downs . We passed the corner of the orchard . " I know what you've got to tell me , " I said . " You're going to marry Veronica . Well , you've no need of my blessing . Some people have all the ...
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... dark at the quarry . To - night of all nights , and me a justice as good as a married man ! " · and I looked at him wonderingly in the dusk ; his high coat collar almost hid his face , and his hat was pressed down over his eyes . The ...
... dark at the quarry . To - night of all nights , and me a justice as good as a married man ! " · and I looked at him wonderingly in the dusk ; his high coat collar almost hid his face , and his hat was pressed down over his eyes . The ...
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admiral Alguazil answered asked began boat Bow Street runners bowed breath caballero cabin 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 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 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.