Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page & Company, 1903 - 541 pages |
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... round declared that the Lady Mary Kemp's farm was a hotbed of disorder . I expect it was , too ; three of our men were hung up at Canterbury on one day - for horse - stealing and arson . Anyhow , that was my mother . As for me , I was ...
... round declared that the Lady Mary Kemp's farm was a hotbed of disorder . I expect it was , too ; three of our men were hung up at Canterbury on one day - for horse - stealing and arson . Anyhow , that was my mother . As for me , I was ...
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... round our foot- hills . You are to remember that I knew nothing whatever of that great world . I had never been further away from our farm than just to Canterbury school , to Hythe market , to Romney market . Our farm nestled down under ...
... round our foot- hills . You are to remember that I knew nothing whatever of that great world . I had never been further away from our farm than just to Canterbury school , to Hythe market , to Romney market . Our farm nestled down under ...
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... round them . · وو The great horses formed an irregular half - circle round us ; men descended clumsily , like sacks of corn . The lanthorn was seized and flashed upon us ; there was a confused hubbub . I caught my own name . " Yes , I'm ...
... round them . · وو The great horses formed an irregular half - circle round us ; men descended clumsily , like sacks of corn . The lanthorn was seized and flashed upon us ; there was a confused hubbub . I caught my own name . " Yes , I'm ...
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... round . + " Don't struggle , " he whispered in my ear ; his silk handkerchief came cool across my eyelids . I felt hands fumbling with a knot at the back of my head . " You're all right , " he said again . The hubbub of voices ceased ...
... round . + " Don't struggle , " he whispered in my ear ; his silk handkerchief came cool across my eyelids . I felt hands fumbling with a knot at the back of my head . " You're all right , " he said again . The hubbub of voices ceased ...
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... round and galloped down the hill . The main body had halted before setting out over the shingle to the shore . Rangsley was waiting to conduct us into the town , where we should find a man to take us three fugitives out to the expected ...
... round and galloped down the hill . The main body had halted before setting out over the shingle to the shore . Rangsley was waiting to conduct us into the town , where we should find a man to take us three fugitives out to the expected ...
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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.