Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page & Company, 1903 - 541 pages |
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... speak like a Dago . Split me if he do ! And we ain't in a friendly country either , you know that . We can't afford to rile the gentry ! " I plucked up courage . " You'll get your heads broke , " I said , " if you wait much longer ...
... speak like a Dago . Split me if he do ! And we ain't in a friendly country either , you know that . We can't afford to rile the gentry ! " I plucked up courage . " You'll get your heads broke , " I said , " if you wait much longer ...
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... speak too loudly on this ship . There is a man called O'Brien , who mis- manages my uncle's affairs . What do I know ? The good Tomas has been in some villainy that is no affair of mine . He is a good friend and a faithful dependent of ...
... speak too loudly on this ship . There is a man called O'Brien , who mis- manages my uncle's affairs . What do I know ? The good Tomas has been in some villainy that is no affair of mine . He is a good friend and a faithful dependent of ...
Page 74
... speak very slowly , very distinctly , and very mournfully . It was quite easy to understand him ; he declared his perfect innocence . No one listened to him ; his name was Pedro Nones . He ceased speaking , and someone on a horse , the ...
... speak very slowly , very distinctly , and very mournfully . It was quite easy to understand him ; he declared his perfect innocence . No one listened to him ; his name was Pedro Nones . He ceased speaking , and someone on a horse , the ...
Page 76
... speak to me . It was old Ramon , who was telling me that he had a special kind of Manchester goods at his store . He explained that they had arrived very lately , and that he had come from Spanish Town solely on their account . One made ...
... speak to me . It was old Ramon , who was telling me that he had a special kind of Manchester goods at his store . He explained that they had arrived very lately , and that he had come from Spanish Town solely on their account . One made ...
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... speak very loudly , lest you awaken my father , " she warned us . The old Don's face was still turned to the ceiling ... speak for me , Seņor Juez ? " I said in the best Spanish I could . The young girl looked at me once more , and then ...
... speak very loudly , lest you awaken my father , " she warned us . The old Don's face was still turned to the ceiling ... speak for me , Seņor Juez ? " I said in the best Spanish I could . The young girl looked at me once more , and then ...
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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 Lugareņos 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 Seņor Seņorita 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.