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Page 116
... Seraphina's voice went on by my side , " neither fear nor gratitude . " He seemed to cast a spell upon people . He was the plenipotentiary of a powerful religious order — no matter . Don Carlos knew these things better than she did . He ...
... Seraphina's voice went on by my side , " neither fear nor gratitude . " He seemed to cast a spell upon people . He was the plenipotentiary of a powerful religious order — no matter . Don Carlos knew these things better than she did . He ...
Page 118
... Seraphina's mother . What a life ! And what was my arm — my arm on which he had leaned in his decay ? I looked at it with a sort of surprise , dubiously . What was expected of it ? I asked myself . Would it have the strength ? Ah , let ...
... Seraphina's mother . What a life ! And what was my arm — my arm on which he had leaned in his decay ? I looked at it with a sort of surprise , dubiously . What was expected of it ? I asked myself . Would it have the strength ? Ah , let ...
Page 125
... Seraphina . The words of Carlos were like oil upon a flame ; it enveloped me from head to foot with a leap . I had the physical sensation of breathing it , of seeing it , of being at the same time driven on and restrained . One moment I ...
... Seraphina . The words of Carlos were like oil upon a flame ; it enveloped me from head to foot with a leap . I had the physical sensation of breathing it , of seeing it , of being at the same time driven on and restrained . One moment I ...
Page 128
... Seraphina's mother , the young wife of his old days , so saintly , and snatched away from him in punish- ment of his early sinfulness . It was impossible that she should have been deceived in Don Patricio ( O'Brien's Christian name was ...
... Seraphina's mother , the young wife of his old days , so saintly , and snatched away from him in punish- ment of his early sinfulness . It was impossible that she should have been deceived in Don Patricio ( O'Brien's Christian name was ...
Page 130
... Seraphina's hand ? " And perhaps he was appointed one of the guardians him- self . It was impossible to know what were the testamentary dis- positions ; Father Antonio , who had learned many things in the confessional , could tell us ...
... Seraphina's hand ? " And perhaps he was appointed one of the guardians him- self . It was impossible to know what were the testamentary dis- positions ; Father Antonio , who had learned many things in the confessional , could tell us ...
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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...