Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page & Company, 1903 - 541 pages |
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Page 82
... wall yawned like a cavern , and had two or three tubs in the right corner ; a man with a blond head , slightly bald as if he had been tonsured , was rocking gently in one of the new chairs . Opposite him , with his aged face towards us ...
... wall yawned like a cavern , and had two or three tubs in the right corner ; a man with a blond head , slightly bald as if he had been tonsured , was rocking gently in one of the new chairs . Opposite him , with his aged face towards us ...
Page 94
... wall , and the top of my head rubbed occasionally against what must have been the roof of a low stone passage , issuing from under the back room of Ramon's store . Finally , I was dropped upon something that felt like a heap of wood ...
... wall , and the top of my head rubbed occasionally against what must have been the roof of a low stone passage , issuing from under the back room of Ramon's store . Finally , I was dropped upon something that felt like a heap of wood ...
Page 123
... wall in the twilight . " " It was a very long song . He gesticulated freely with his hand in between the scratching of the strings , which seemed to be a matter of luck . His eyes gazed distantly at the wall above my head . The ...
... wall in the twilight . " " It was a very long song . He gesticulated freely with his hand in between the scratching of the strings , which seemed to be a matter of luck . His eyes gazed distantly at the wall above my head . The ...
Page 127
... walls dropped here and there , mounting the hillside among palms , like men standing in tall grass , running back , hiding in a steep valley ; silver - gray huts with ragged dun roofs , like dishevelled shocks of hair ; a great pink ...
... walls dropped here and there , mounting the hillside among palms , like men standing in tall grass , running back , hiding in a steep valley ; silver - gray huts with ragged dun roofs , like dishevelled shocks of hair ; a great pink ...
Page 141
... walls wainscotted with marble , the vastness of the room , the imposing forms of furniture , carved heavily in ebony , impressed me with a sense of secular and austere magnificence . For cen- turies there had always been a Riego living ...
... walls wainscotted with marble , the vastness of the room , the imposing forms of furniture , carved heavily in ebony , impressed me with a sense of secular and austere magnificence . For cen- turies there had always been a Riego living ...
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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.