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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
... Lugareños , " 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 ...
... Lugareños , " 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
... Lugareños 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 ...
... Lugareños 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
... Lugareños 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 ...
... Lugareños 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
... Lugareños 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 ...
... Lugareños 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 115 - 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 hot sunshine, the white beach curving around the deserted sheet of water, the
Page 110 - I would like best to see you marry my cousin. Once before a woman of our race had married an Englishman. She had been happy. English things last forever—English peace, English power, English fidelity. It is a country of much serenity, of order,
Page 355 - WHY have I been brought here, your worships?" I asked, with a great deal of firmness. There were two figures in black, the one beside, the other behind a large black table. I was placed in front of them, between two soldiers, in the
Page 108 - king, had fought against the French, had a price put upon his head by a special proclamation. He had known passion, power, war, exile, and love. He had been thanked by his returned king,
Page 165 - their long knives. They came in a disorderly, shouting mob along the beach, intending this not for an attack, but as a simple demonstration. The sight of the open gate struck them with wonder. The bishop's coach
Page 108 - et armis, a nun from a convent, incurring the enmity of the Church and the displeasure of his sovereign. He had sacrificed all his fortune in Europe to the service of
Page 349 - of my hair was concealed by the handkerchief bound under my hat; my footsteps echoed loudly under the vault, and I penetrated into the heart of the city. And directly, it seemed to me, I had stepped back three hundred years. I had never seen anything so old; this was the abandoned inheritance of an adventurous race, that seemed to have thrown all its might, all its
Page 404 - Who is it that refuses to drink a glass of brandy?' He asked me what countryman I was, and if I was an American." There were two others from the unfortunate