Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page, 1914 - 428 pages |
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Page 141
... flames burned before Carlos ' door at the end of the long vista , and two of Seraphina's maids shrank away from the ... flame- like brilliance . They were waiting for me . With all his eagerness and air of life , all he could do was to ...
... flames burned before Carlos ' door at the end of the long vista , and two of Seraphina's maids shrank away from the ... flame- like brilliance . They were waiting for me . With all his eagerness and air of life , all he could do was to ...
Page 147
... flames of their candles vacillated very much . I closed the door quietly . Carlos was done with the earth . This had become my affair ; and the necessity of coming to an immediate decision almost deprived me of my power of thinking ...
... flames of their candles vacillated very much . I closed the door quietly . Carlos was done with the earth . This had become my affair ; and the necessity of coming to an immediate decision almost deprived me of my power of thinking ...
Page 154
... flames as high as the ceiling , filled the corners heavily like gathered draperies , descended to the foot of the four walls in the shape of a military tent , in which warlike objects vaguely gleamed : a trophy of ancient arequebuses ...
... flames as high as the ceiling , filled the corners heavily like gathered draperies , descended to the foot of the four walls in the shape of a military tent , in which warlike objects vaguely gleamed : a trophy of ancient arequebuses ...
Page 181
... flames of a hundred candles , pale in the sunlight , extremely ardent in the night . The murmur of prayers for these souls went on incessantly ; I have it in my ears now . There would be always some figure of the household kneeling in ...
... flames of a hundred candles , pale in the sunlight , extremely ardent in the night . The murmur of prayers for these souls went on incessantly ; I have it in my ears now . There would be always some figure of the household kneeling in ...
Page 185
... in my life in which not a word of love was spoken , which is not to be written of . The burly shadow of the priest lay motionless from the window right across the room ; the flickering flame of a silver lamp made an unsteady PART THIRD 185.
... in my life in which not a word of love was spoken , which is not to be written of . The burly shadow of the priest lay motionless from the window right across the room ; the flickering flame of a silver lamp made an unsteady PART THIRD 185.
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