Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page & Company, 1903 - 541 pages |
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... remained immovable , with no intention of entering , and called in a harsh , aged voice : " Señor Ramon ! Señor Ramon ! " and then twice : " Sera- phina - Seraphina ! " turning his head back . Then for the first time I saw Seraphina ...
... remained immovable , with no intention of entering , and called in a harsh , aged voice : " Señor Ramon ! Señor Ramon ! " and then twice : " Sera- phina - Seraphina ! " turning his head back . Then for the first time I saw Seraphina ...
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... remained to her father . Then she had married a good man in his way ; a good enough catch ; moderately well off , very amiable , easily influenced , a dilettante , and a bit of a dreamer , too . He had taken her into the swim of the ...
... remained to her father . Then she had married a good man in his way ; a good enough catch ; moderately well off , very amiable , easily influenced , a dilettante , and a bit of a dreamer , too . He had taken her into the swim of the ...
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... 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 . That's where I want to go , and ...
... 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 . That's where I want to go , and ...
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... remained for many years after in the throes of a question . The question was , of course , that of the abolition of slavery . The planters as a rule were immensely rich and overbearing . They said , " If the Home Government tries to ...
... remained for many years after in the throes of a question . The question was , of course , that of the abolition of slavery . The planters as a rule were immensely rich and overbearing . They said , " If the Home Government tries to ...
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... remained a sprinkling in the Vale , were at first inclined to make much of me . There was Mrs. Topnambo , a withered , very dried - up per- sonage , who affected pink trimmings ; she gave the ton to the countryside as far as ton could ...
... remained a sprinkling in the Vale , were at first inclined to make much of me . There was Mrs. Topnambo , a withered , very dried - up per- sonage , who affected pink trimmings ; she gave the ton to the countryside as far as ton could ...
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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.