Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page & Company, 1903 - 541 pages |
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... head into a noose ; that's what it comes to . Why , I may have to flee the country . There's the red - breasts poking their noses into every cottage on the Ashford road . " He strode on again . A wisp of mist came steal- ing down the ...
... head into a noose ; that's what it comes to . Why , I may have to flee the country . There's the red - breasts poking their noses into every cottage on the Ashford road . " He strode on again . A wisp of mist came steal- ing down the ...
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... heads , and the quiet trees above , flickered into sight . " Don't let them hang me , Jack Rangsley , " I sobbed ... head . " You're all right , " he said again . The hubbub of voices ceased suddenly . " Now , lads , bring ' em along ...
... heads , and the quiet trees above , flickered into sight . " Don't let them hang me , Jack Rangsley , " I sobbed ... head . " You're all right , " he said again . The hubbub of voices ceased suddenly . " Now , lads , bring ' em along ...
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... head of the Old Bourne Tap importers . But he was hard enough , tyrannical enough , and had nerve enough to keep ... heads , ” Rangsley said , pointing back with his crop . He laughed gayly . The great white face of the quarry rose up ...
... head of the Old Bourne Tap importers . But he was hard enough , tyrannical enough , and had nerve enough to keep ... heads , ” Rangsley said , pointing back with his crop . He laughed gayly . The great white face of the quarry rose up ...
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... head for the run . Ralph remembered , too — or I remembered for him- that he had estates and an agent in Jamaica , and he turned into the big inn at the junction of the London road to write a letter to his agent bidding him house me and ...
... head for the run . Ralph remembered , too — or I remembered for him- that he had estates and an agent in Jamaica , and he turned into the big inn at the junction of the London road to write a letter to his agent bidding him house me and ...
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... head was knotted in a red , white - spotted handkerchief ; his grizzled beard was tangled ; he wore a black and rusty cloak , ragged at the edges , and his feet were often bare ; at his side would lie his wooden right hand . As a rule ...
... head was knotted in a red , white - spotted handkerchief ; his grizzled beard was tangled ; he wore a black and rusty cloak , ragged at the edges , and his feet were often bare ; at his side would lie his wooden right hand . As a rule ...
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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.