Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page & Company, 1903 - 541 pages |
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Page 31
... feeling very hopeless , and with a dogged grimness . 66 " Just now , my young cousin , I feel as if I should not ... feeling of dreariness and disappointment that had come over me , the sudden feeling that I was going not to adventure ...
... feeling very hopeless , and with a dogged grimness . 66 " Just now , my young cousin , I feel as if I should not ... feeling of dreariness and disappointment that had come over me , the sudden feeling that I was going not to adventure ...
Page 32
... feeling came over me that this , in- deed , was the elevated and the romantic . Perhaps he was tired of his life ; perhaps he really regretted what he left behind him in England , or somewhere else some association , some woman . But he ...
... feeling came over me that this , in- deed , was the elevated and the romantic . Perhaps he was tired of his life ; perhaps he really regretted what he left behind him in England , or somewhere else some association , some woman . But he ...
Page 45
... feeling of loneliness , that I had sought out Barnes in the dim immensity of the steerage . In the square of wan light that came down the scuttle he was cording his hair - trunk - unemotional and very matter - of - fact . He began to ...
... feeling of loneliness , that I had sought out Barnes in the dim immensity of the steerage . In the square of wan light that came down the scuttle he was cording his hair - trunk - unemotional and very matter - of - fact . He began to ...
Page 98
... feeling made me dumb . She was looking at me , her lips set , her eyes wide and still ; and suddenly she said : " Ask nothing . The land is not far yet . You can escape , Carlos thought . But no ! You would She pointed only perish for ...
... feeling made me dumb . She was looking at me , her lips set , her eyes wide and still ; and suddenly she said : " Ask nothing . The land is not far yet . You can escape , Carlos thought . But no ! You would She pointed only perish for ...
Page 157
... feeling of absolute absorption into one idea . I was ravaged by a thought . It was as if I had never before imagined , heard spoken of , or seen a woman . It was true . She was a revelation to my eye and my ear , as much as to my heart ...
... feeling of absolute absorption into one idea . I was ravaged by a thought . It was as if I had never before imagined , heard spoken of , or seen a woman . It was true . She was a revelation to my eye and my ear , as much as to my heart ...
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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.