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Page 37
... fear , " Carlos said . I came suddenly forward . " I will not go with you , " I said , before I had reached them even . Castro started back as if he had been stung , and caught at the wooden hand that sheathed his steel blade . 66 Ah ...
... fear , " Carlos said . I came suddenly forward . " I will not go with you , " I said , before I had reached them even . Castro started back as if he had been stung , and caught at the wooden hand that sheathed his steel blade . 66 Ah ...
Page 65
... fear seemed to have turned into stone . We entered quietly , and after a moment she looked up candidly into my eyes , and placed her finger on her lips , motioning her head towards her father . She placed her hand in mine , and ...
... fear seemed to have turned into stone . We entered quietly , and after a moment she looked up candidly into my eyes , and placed her finger on her lips , motioning her head towards her father . She placed her hand in mine , and ...
Page 74
... fear . The expression of his eyes changed , and they became fixed over my shoulder , while on his lips the words " You must come , you must come , " trembled , hardly audible . I could only shake my head . At once he stepped back as if ...
... fear . The expression of his eyes changed , and they became fixed over my shoulder , while on his lips the words " You must come , you must come , " trembled , hardly audible . I could only shake my head . At once he stepped back as if ...
Page 77
... fear vanished when we came alongside a ship evidently already under way ; but I was handled so roughly and clumsily that I was thoroughly exhausted and out of breath , by the time I was got on board . All was still around me ; I was ...
... fear vanished when we came alongside a ship evidently already under way ; but I was handled so roughly and clumsily that I was thoroughly exhausted and out of breath , by the time I was got on board . All was still around me ; I was ...
Page 78
... fear . There were the old Don , an ineffectual , silver - haired old gentleman , who obviously was not a pirate ; the sleek O'Brien , and Carlos , who seemed to cough on the edge of a grave — and this young girl . There was not any ...
... fear . There were the old Don , an ineffectual , silver - haired old gentleman , who obviously was not a pirate ; the sleek O'Brien , and Carlos , who seemed to cough on the edge of a grave — and this young girl . There was not any ...
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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...