Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page, 1914 - 428 pages |
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Page 79
... deck . Then she walked to the other side of the table , and sat looking at me in the glow of the lamp . " Your life hangs on a thread , " she murmured . I answered , " You have given it to me . Shall I never- I was acutely conscious of ...
... deck . Then she walked to the other side of the table , and sat looking at me in the glow of the lamp . " Your life hangs on a thread , " she murmured . I answered , " You have given it to me . Shall I never- I was acutely conscious of ...
Page 85
... deck chair , alternately drawing to her and repulsing the whining little girl . The major talked to me about the scandals with which the world was filled , and kept a suspicious eye upon his wife . He spent the morning in shaving what ...
... deck chair , alternately drawing to her and repulsing the whining little girl . The major talked to me about the scandals with which the world was filled , and kept a suspicious eye upon his wife . He spent the morning in shaving what ...
Page 86
... deck , but it was minutes before I could make things fit together . I saw Major Cowper on the poop ; he was brandish- ing a little pistol and apostrophizing Lumsden , who was waving ineffectual arms towards the sky ; and there was a ...
... deck , but it was minutes before I could make things fit together . I saw Major Cowper on the poop ; he was brandish- ing a little pistol and apostrophizing Lumsden , who was waving ineffectual arms towards the sky ; and there was a ...
Page 87
... deck . His head hung deject- edly down upon his chest . Lumsden said , " Thank God , oh , thank God ! " and the old ... decks were invaded by men , brown and ragged , leaping down from the bulwarks one after the other . They had come out ...
... deck . His head hung deject- edly down upon his chest . Lumsden said , " Thank God , oh , thank God ! " and the old ... decks were invaded by men , brown and ragged , leaping down from the bulwarks one after the other . They had come out ...
Page 88
... deck into a great heap of booty . The schooner flying the Mexican flag remained hove to abeam . But in the man in command of the boarding party I recognized Tomas Castro ! He was a pirate . My surmises were correct . He looked the part ...
... deck into a great heap of booty . The schooner flying the Mexican flag remained hove to abeam . But in the man in command of the boarding party I recognized Tomas Castro ! He was a pirate . My surmises were correct . He looked the part ...
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