Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page & Company, 1903 - 541 pages |
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Page 14
... - it should have been - tremendous . We stood waiting silently for an eternity , as one waits for a hare to break covert before the beaters . From down the long hill came a small sound of horses ' hoofs - a sound like the 14 ROMANCE.
... - it should have been - tremendous . We stood waiting silently for an eternity , as one waits for a hare to break covert before the beaters . From down the long hill came a small sound of horses ' hoofs - a sound like the 14 ROMANCE.
Page 24
... waiting to conduct us into the town , where we should find a man to take us three fugitives out to the expected ship . We rode clattering aggressively through the silence of the long , narrow main street . Every now and then Carlos ...
... waiting to conduct us into the town , where we should find a man to take us three fugitives out to the expected ship . We rode clattering aggressively through the silence of the long , narrow main street . Every now and then Carlos ...
Page 69
... waiting negresses . I saw three men were falling upon a little thing like a damaged cat . I couldn't stand that , come what might of it . I ran hastily up the steps , hoping to be able to make them recover their senses , a force of ...
... waiting negresses . I saw three men were falling upon a little thing like a damaged cat . I couldn't stand that , come what might of it . I ran hastily up the steps , hoping to be able to make them recover their senses , a force of ...
Page 91
... waiting to see just that carriage of the neck , just that proud glance from the eyes , just that droop of eyelashes upon the cheeks , for years and years . " No , I shall hold my tongue , and that's enough , " I said . At that moment ...
... waiting to see just that carriage of the neck , just that proud glance from the eyes , just that droop of eyelashes upon the cheeks , for years and years . " No , I shall hold my tongue , and that's enough , " I said . At that moment ...
Page 120
... waiting for the cavalier to awake . " He stalked round the end of the table , slid between it and the side , and grasped my arm with wrapt earnest- ness as he settled himself slowly beside me . He wore a red shirt that had become rather ...
... waiting for the cavalier to awake . " He stalked round the end of the table , slid between it and the side , and grasped my arm with wrapt earnest- ness as he settled himself slowly beside me . He wore a red shirt that had become rather ...
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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.