Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page & Company, 1903 - 541 pages |
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... heart cherry . He used to spend his days in a hooded chair . My mother managed every- thing , leading an out - of - door life which gave her face the colour of a wrinkled pippin . It was the face of a Roman mother , tight - lipped ...
... heart cherry . He used to spend his days in a hooded chair . My mother managed every- thing , leading an out - of - door life which gave her face the colour of a wrinkled pippin . It was the face of a Roman mother , tight - lipped ...
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... heart , too . It was like a game of hide - and - seek , and yet it was life at last . Everything grew silent again and I began to think I had missed my time . Down below in the plain , a great way off , a dog was barking continuously ...
... heart , too . It was like a game of hide - and - seek , and yet it was life at last . Everything grew silent again and I began to think I had missed my time . Down below in the plain , a great way off , a dog was barking continuously ...
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... heart , intermittent - a muffled thud on turf , and a faint clink of iron . It seemed to die away unheard by the runner beside me . Presently there was a crack- ling of the short pine branches , a rustle , and a hoarse whisper said from ...
... heart , intermittent - a muffled thud on turf , and a faint clink of iron . It seemed to die away unheard by the runner beside me . Presently there was a crack- ling of the short pine branches , a rustle , and a hoarse whisper said from ...
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... heart — a thing that bounded and leapt within my chest , a little sickeningly . The other details I forget . Jack Rangsley was a tall , big - boned , thin man , with something sinister in the lines of his horseman's cloak , and ...
... heart — a thing that bounded and leapt within my chest , a little sickeningly . The other details I forget . Jack Rangsley was a tall , big - boned , thin man , with something sinister in the lines of his horseman's cloak , and ...
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... heart began to beat softly and insistently — out of sympathy . Suddenly , from the deep shadow of the cloud above the sea , a yellow light flashed silently out - very small , very distant , very short - lived . Rangsley heaved a deep ...
... heart began to beat softly and insistently — out of sympathy . Suddenly , from the deep shadow of the cloud above the sea , a yellow light flashed silently out - very small , very distant , very short - lived . Rangsley heaved a deep ...
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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.