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Page 51
... head very much down on his breast , very much on one side , and his great hump portending over his little white face , and ruffling up his ragged black hair . Mrs. Macdonald clacked all the scandal of the Vale , and the Buckatoro ...
... head very much down on his breast , very much on one side , and his great hump portending over his little white face , and ruffling up his ragged black hair . Mrs. Macdonald clacked all the scandal of the Vale , and the Buckatoro ...
Page 53
... heads . A great lady was on the road ; her querulous voice was calling to someone within the open door that let down a soft ... head was uncovered . A third male face , very white , L bobbed up and down beside his shining left shoulder . 53.
... heads . A great lady was on the road ; her querulous voice was calling to someone within the open door that let down a soft ... head was uncovered . A third male face , very white , L bobbed up and down beside his shining left shoulder . 53.
Page 55
... head that I was going to assault him again . He bolted out of sight , and I was left facing the admiral . He stared at me contemptuously . I was streaming with perspiration and up- braiding him for assaulting a cripple . The admiral ...
... head that I was going to assault him again . He bolted out of sight , and I was left facing the admiral . He stared at me contemptuously . I was streaming with perspiration and up- braiding him for assaulting a cripple . The admiral ...
Page 56
... head on the table and little rings shining in his great red ears ; the other very spick and span - of what they called the new school then . His name was Williams - Captain Williams of the Lion , which he part owned ; a man of some note ...
... head on the table and little rings shining in his great red ears ; the other very spick and span - of what they called the new school then . His name was Williams - Captain Williams of the Lion , which he part owned ; a man of some note ...
Page 65
... head , slightly bald as if he had been tonsured , was rocking gently in one of the new chairs . Opposite him , with his aged face towards us , sat the old Don asleep in the high chair . His delicate white hands lay along the arms , one ...
... head , slightly bald as if he had been tonsured , was rocking gently in one of the new chairs . Opposite him , with his aged face towards us , sat the old Don asleep in the high chair . His delicate white hands lay along the arms , one ...
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Page 115 - he would die of grief. The general effect of the place was of vitality exhausted, of a body calcined, of romance turned into stone. The still air, the hot sunshine, the white beach curving around the deserted sheet of water, the
Page 110 - I would like best to see you marry my cousin. Once before a woman of our race had married an Englishman. She had been happy. English things last forever—English peace, English power, English fidelity. It is a country of much serenity, of order,
Page 355 - WHY have I been brought here, your worships?" I asked, with a great deal of firmness. There were two figures in black, the one beside, the other behind a large black table. I was placed in front of them, between two soldiers, in the
Page 108 - king, had fought against the French, had a price put upon his head by a special proclamation. He had known passion, power, war, exile, and love. He had been thanked by his returned king,
Page 165 - their long knives. They came in a disorderly, shouting mob along the beach, intending this not for an attack, but as a simple demonstration. The sight of the open gate struck them with wonder. The bishop's coach
Page 108 - et armis, a nun from a convent, incurring the enmity of the Church and the displeasure of his sovereign. He had sacrificed all his fortune in Europe to the service of
Page 349 - of my hair was concealed by the handkerchief bound under my hat; my footsteps echoed loudly under the vault, and I penetrated into the heart of the city. And directly, it seemed to me, I had stepped back three hundred years. I had never seen anything so old; this was the abandoned inheritance of an adventurous race, that seemed to have thrown all its might, all its
Page 404 - Who is it that refuses to drink a glass of brandy?' He asked me what countryman I was, and if I was an American." There were two others from the unfortunate