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Page 45
... Spanish Town . Long sunblinds flapped slightly . Before the next door a large sign pro- claimed " Office of the Buckatoro Journal . " It was , as I have said , after two years — years which , as Carlos had predicted , I had found to be ...
... Spanish Town . Long sunblinds flapped slightly . Before the next door a large sign pro- claimed " Office of the Buckatoro Journal . " It was , as I have said , after two years — years which , as Carlos had predicted , I had found to be ...
Page 46
... Spanish Town ; his cargoes came from all the seas . All the planters and all the official class in the island had dealings with him . " It was most natural that the hidalgo , your respected cousin , should consult me if he wished to go ...
... Spanish Town ; his cargoes came from all the seas . All the planters and all the official class in the island had dealings with him . " It was most natural that the hidalgo , your respected cousin , should consult me if he wished to go ...
Page 47
... Spanish , nor do I wish that it should . But our little , waspish friend there " — he lifted one thin , brown hand to the sign of the Buckatoro Journal— " his paper is doing much mischief . I think the admiral or the governor will ...
... Spanish , nor do I wish that it should . But our little , waspish friend there " — he lifted one thin , brown hand to the sign of the Buckatoro Journal— " his paper is doing much mischief . I think the admiral or the governor will ...
Page 49
... Spanish Town , or to listen once more to one of old Macdonald's interminable harangues on the folly of Mr. Canning's policy , or the virtues of Scotch thrift . lad , " he used to bellow in his curious squeak of a voice , tleman you may ...
... Spanish Town , or to listen once more to one of old Macdonald's interminable harangues on the folly of Mr. Canning's policy , or the virtues of Scotch thrift . lad , " he used to bellow in his curious squeak of a voice , tleman you may ...
Page 50
... Spanish merchant of Kingston and Spanish Town . " Ra mon had seemed mysterious when I had seen him in company with Carlos and Castro ; but re - introduced in the homely atmosphere of the Macdonalds , he had become merely a saturnine ...
... Spanish merchant of Kingston and Spanish Town . " Ra mon had seemed mysterious when I had seen him in company with Carlos and Castro ; but re - introduced in the homely atmosphere of the Macdonalds , he had become merely a saturnine ...
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admiral answered asked began boat Bow Street runners bowed breath caballero called Carlos Casa Riego cloak cried Cuba dark David Macdonald dead death deck Don Balthasar Don Carlos door ears El Rubio English eyes face Father Antonio fear feet felt gone hair hand hang Havana head heard heart immense Inglez Jamaica John Kemp Juan Juez Kemp Kingston knew laughed light Lion lips looked Lord Stowell Lugareños Macdonald Manuel matter murmured never Nichols night Nikola O'Brien once pirates pistol Ramon Rangsley ravine remember Rio Medio romance Rooksby round sail 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 waiting walked wall whispered Williams woman words
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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...