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Page 34
... asking one of our sailors what ship it was . " Don't you know a flagship when you see it ? " a voice grumbled surlily . " Admiral Rowley's , " it continued . Then it rumbled out some remarks about pirates , vermin , coast of Cuba ...
... asking one of our sailors what ship it was . " Don't you know a flagship when you see it ? " a voice grumbled surlily . " Admiral Rowley's , " it continued . Then it rumbled out some remarks about pirates , vermin , coast of Cuba ...
Page 35
... asked . 67 Carlos said , No. I think not , now . " And at that moment the second mate , shouldering his way through a white - clothed crowd of shore people , made up behind Senor Ramon . He held a letter in his hand . " I am going over ...
... asked . 67 Carlos said , No. I think not , now . " And at that moment the second mate , shouldering his way through a white - clothed crowd of shore people , made up behind Senor Ramon . He held a letter in his hand . " I am going over ...
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... asking questions . Another answered : " Oh , I lost half a screen the last voyage — the old thing . " " Haven't they routed out the scoundrels yet ? " the other asked . The first man lowered his voice . I caught only that " the ad ...
... asking questions . Another answered : " Oh , I lost half a screen the last voyage — the old thing . " " Haven't they routed out the scoundrels yet ? " the other asked . The first man lowered his voice . I caught only that " the ad ...
Page 38
... asked . Life in my uncle's palace , " he said , so sweetly and persuasively that the suggestiveness of it caused a thrill in me . His uncle could nominate me to posts of honor fit for a cabal- lero . I seemed to wake up . " Your uncle ...
... asked . Life in my uncle's palace , " he said , so sweetly and persuasively that the suggestiveness of it caused a thrill in me . His uncle could nominate me to posts of honor fit for a cabal- lero . I seemed to wake up . " Your uncle ...
Page 40
... asked me . One day , " he repeated , with an extraordinary cadence of tone . 66 His hand was grasping mine ; it thrilled me like a woman's ; he stood shaking it very gently . " One day , " he said , " I shall repay what I owe you . I ...
... asked me . One day , " he repeated , with an extraordinary cadence of tone . 66 His hand was grasping mine ; it thrilled me like a woman's ; he stood shaking it very gently . " One day , " he said , " I shall repay what I owe you . 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...