Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page, 1914 - 428 pages |
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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 . " Señorita , I ask him to come to Rio , " he said . She turned her large dark eyes scrutinizingly upon me , then dropped them again . She ...
... girl said , " Of what do you discourse , my English cousin ? " O'Brien interposed deferentially . " Señorita , I ask him to come to Rio , " he said . She turned her large dark eyes scrutinizingly upon me , then dropped them again . She ...
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 . " Señor 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 . " Señor O'Brien , " she said , " you have so irritated my English cousin 70 ROMANCE.
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 Señor Juez . Too long my father ...
... 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 Señor Juez . Too long my father ...
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