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Page 64
... the door open . I followed him into the room , where the vision of the ancient Don and the charming apparition of the young girl had retreated only a few moments before . T CHAPTER III HE room was very lofty and coldly 64 ROMANCE.
... the door open . I followed him into the room , where the vision of the ancient Don and the charming apparition of the young girl had retreated only a few moments before . T CHAPTER III HE room was very lofty and coldly 64 ROMANCE.
Page 65
... girl was sitting with her hands to her temples and her elbows on the long table , minutely examining the motion- lessness of a baby lizard , a tiny thing with golden eyes , whom fear seemed to have turned into stone . We entered quietly ...
... girl was sitting with her hands to her temples and her elbows on the long table , minutely examining the motion- lessness of a baby lizard , a tiny thing with golden eyes , whom fear seemed to have turned into stone . We entered quietly ...
Page 67
... girl touched the lizard gently , but it was too frightened to move . O'Brien , with shrewd glances , rocked his chair . . . . What did I want ? he inquired . To see life ? What he proposed was the life for a fine young fellow like me ...
... girl touched the lizard gently , but it was too frightened to move . O'Brien , with shrewd glances , rocked his chair . . . . What did I want ? he inquired . To see life ? What he proposed was the life for a fine young fellow like me ...
Page 68
... girl said , “ Of what do you discourse , my English cousin ? " " O'Brien interposed deferentially . " Senorita , I ask him to come to Rio , " he said . She turned her large dark eyes scrutinizingly upon me , then dropped them again ...
... girl said , “ Of what do you discourse , my English cousin ? " " O'Brien interposed deferentially . " Senorita , I ask him to come to Rio , " he said . She turned her large dark eyes scrutinizingly upon me , then dropped them again ...
Page 70
... " Ye mean it ? " he asked ; " it's not British heroics ? The old Don stirred again and sighed . The young girl glided swiftly to his side . " Senor O'Brien , " she said , " you have so irritated my English cousin 70 ROMANCE.
... " Ye mean it ? " he asked ; " it's not British heroics ? The old Don stirred again and sighed . The young girl glided swiftly to his side . " Senor O'Brien , " she said , " you have so irritated my English cousin 70 ROMANCE.
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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...