Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page & Company, 1903 - 541 pages |
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Page 22
... standing with their heads together . " Come along , " Rangsley said ; " up with you . We'll talk as we go . 99 Someone helped me into a saddle ; my legs trembled in the stirrups as if I had ridden a thousand miles on end already . I ...
... standing with their heads together . " Come along , " Rangsley said ; " up with you . We'll talk as we go . 99 Someone helped me into a saddle ; my legs trembled in the stirrups as if I had ridden a thousand miles on end already . I ...
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... standing up unsteadily , growled , " We may do it yet ! See , señor ! " The blue gleam was much larger - it flared smokily up towards the sky . I made out ghastly parallelograms of a ship's sails high above us , and at last many faces ...
... standing up unsteadily , growled , " We may do it yet ! See , señor ! " The blue gleam was much larger - it flared smokily up towards the sky . I made out ghastly parallelograms of a ship's sails high above us , and at last many faces ...
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... standing in a languid pose just clear of the shaft of light that fell through the scuttle in a square patch . I lowered my voice , too . “ What life ? ” I asked . " Life in my uncle's palace , " he said , so sweetly and persuasively ...
... standing in a languid pose just clear of the shaft of light that fell through the scuttle in a square patch . I lowered my voice , too . “ What life ? ” I asked . " Life in my uncle's palace , " he said , so sweetly and persuasively ...
Page 67
... standing motionless . They resolved themselves into a barouche , with four horses steaming a great deal , and an army of negresses with bandboxes on their heads . A great lady was on the road ; her querulous voice was calling to someone ...
... standing motionless . They resolved themselves into a barouche , with four horses steaming a great deal , and an army of negresses with bandboxes on their heads . A great lady was on the road ; her querulous voice was calling to someone ...
Page 69
... standing above a ghastly white gentleman who , from a sitting posture , was gasping out , " I'll commit you ! I swear I'll commit you ! I helped him to his feet rather apologetically , while the admiral behind me was asking insistently ...
... standing above a ghastly white gentleman who , from a sitting posture , was gasping out , " I'll commit you ! I swear I'll commit you ! I helped him to his feet rather apologetically , while the admiral behind me was asking insistently ...
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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.