Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page & Company, 1903 - 541 pages |
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... hold out infinite possibilities of romance , of adventure , of love , perhaps , and stores of gold . In the family my mother counted ; my father did not . She was the daughter of a Scottish earl who had ruined himself again and again ...
... hold out infinite possibilities of romance , of adventure , of love , perhaps , and stores of gold . In the family my mother counted ; my father did not . She was the daughter of a Scottish earl who had ruined himself again and again ...
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... hold of He'd show me a little Ralph remained lost in a kind of gloomy abstraction , while I went on worrying him for Carlos ' address . " Carlos is the only soul I know outside five miles from here . Besides , he's friends in the Indies ...
... hold of He'd show me a little Ralph remained lost in a kind of gloomy abstraction , while I went on worrying him for Carlos ' address . " Carlos is the only soul I know outside five miles from here . Besides , he's friends in the Indies ...
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... hold of my collar . At the steep of the hill the men and horses came into sight against the white sky , a confused ... Hold your tongues , you fools ! Hold your tongues ! 99 Someone else called : " Hear to THE QUARRY AND THE BEACH 17.
... hold of my collar . At the steep of the hill the men and horses came into sight against the white sky , a confused ... Hold your tongues , you fools ! Hold your tongues ! 99 Someone else called : " Hear to THE QUARRY AND THE BEACH 17.
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... Hold your tongue , " he said roughly . He began to make a set speech , anathematizing runners . He moved to tie our feet , and hang us by our finger - nails over the quarry edge . A hubbub of assent and dissent went up ; then the crowd ...
... Hold your tongue , " he said roughly . He began to make a set speech , anathematizing runners . He moved to tie our feet , and hang us by our finger - nails over the quarry edge . A hubbub of assent and dissent went up ; then the crowd ...
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... hold your tongue ! " Ralph answered him . " There's mischief enough . He shall go to France . " " Oh , let the young blade rip about the world for a year or two , squire , " Rangsley's voice said from behind us . In the end Ralph let me ...
... hold your tongue ! " Ralph answered him . " There's mischief enough . He shall go to France . " " Oh , let the young blade rip about the world for a year or two , squire , " Rangsley's voice said from behind us . In the end Ralph let me ...
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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.