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Page 164
... Lugareños , stood on the beach , also , watching the mules , and exchanging loud jocular shouts with the blacks . Rio Medio , the dead , forsaken , and dese- crated city , was lying , as bare as a skeleton , on the sands . They were ...
... Lugareños , stood on the beach , also , watching the mules , and exchanging loud jocular shouts with the blacks . Rio Medio , the dead , forsaken , and dese- crated city , was lying , as bare as a skeleton , on the sands . They were ...
Page 166
... Lugarenos , " he said , " Manuel and another one , did go last night , as directed by the friar " —he supposed— " to meet the Juez in the bush outside Rio Medio . " I had guessed that much , and told him of Manuel's behavior under my ...
... Lugarenos , " he said , " Manuel and another one , did go last night , as directed by the friar " —he supposed— " to meet the Juez in the bush outside Rio Medio . " I had guessed that much , and told him of Manuel's behavior under my ...
Page 173
... Lugarenos carried torches , others had pikes ; most of them , however , had nothing but their long knives . They came in a disorderly , shouting mob along the beach , intending this not for an attack , but as a simple demonstra- tion ...
... Lugarenos carried torches , others had pikes ; most of them , however , had nothing but their long knives . They came in a disorderly , shouting mob along the beach , intending this not for an attack , but as a simple demonstra- tion ...
Page 174
... Lugarenos have risen ! " broke upon the hush of mourning . Father Antonio made a brusque movement , and Seraphina sent a startled glance in my direction . The cloistered court , with its marble basin and a jet of water in the center ...
... Lugarenos have risen ! " broke upon the hush of mourning . Father Antonio made a brusque movement , and Seraphina sent a startled glance in my direction . The cloistered court , with its marble basin and a jet of water in the center ...
Page 176
... Lugarenos looking up . We , also , were strongly shown by the light of the doorway behind us , and by the torches burning in the gallery . That morning , in my helplessness , I had come to put my trust in accident — in some accident — I ...
... Lugarenos looking up . We , also , were strongly shown by the light of the doorway behind us , and by the torches burning in the gallery . That morning , in my helplessness , I had come to put my trust in accident — in some accident — I ...
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Page 41 - Here's the mahn ye were speerin' after. Here's Macdonald." It was the voice of Barnes, and the voice of the every day. I discovered that I had been tremendously upset. The pulses in my temples were throbbing, and I wanted to shut my eyes — to sleep! 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 forever hauling immensely heavy and immensely unimportant burdens up weary hillocks, down steep...