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Page 71
... girl for having awakened her father . Her color was very high , and her eyes sparkled . If she had not been so very beautiful I should have gone away at once . She said angrily : " He is odious to me , the Senor Juez . Too long my ...
... girl for having awakened her father . Her color was very high , and her eyes sparkled . If she had not been so very beautiful I should have gone away at once . She said angrily : " He is odious to me , the Senor Juez . Too long my ...
Page 72
... girl was pouring some drops from a green phial into a silver goblet ; she passed close to us , and handed it to her father , who had leant a little forward in his chair . Every movement of hers affected me with an intimate joy ; it was ...
... girl was pouring some drops from a green phial into a silver goblet ; she passed close to us , and handed it to her father , who had leant a little forward in his chair . Every movement of hers affected me with an intimate joy ; it was ...
Page 74
... girl said , " He has preceded us to the ship ; he will write there . " She had gone back to her seat . Don Balthasar shrugged his shoulders to his ears , and moved his hands from his knees . " Without doubt , he knows best , " he said ...
... girl said , " He has preceded us to the ship ; he will write there . " She had gone back to her seat . Don Balthasar shrugged his shoulders to his ears , and moved his hands from his knees . " Without doubt , he knows best , " he said ...
Page 78
... girl that I had seen through the door ; the girl I had seen play with the melon seeds . She was breathing fast — it agitated me to be alone with her — and she had a little shining dagger in her hand . She cut the rope round my ankles ...
... girl that I had seen through the door ; the girl I had seen play with the melon seeds . She was breathing fast — it agitated me to be alone with her — and she had a little shining dagger in her hand . She cut the rope round my ankles ...
Page 79
... girl crossed herself with a swift motion of the hand . The stern - ports , glazed in small panes , were black , and gleaming in a white frame - work . 66 Go — go — go with God , " the girl whispered urgently . " There is a boat- " " I ...
... girl crossed herself with a swift motion of the hand . The stern - ports , glazed in small panes , were black , and gleaming in a white frame - work . 66 Go — go — go with God , " the girl whispered urgently . " There is a boat- " " 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...