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... hold your tongue ! " Ralph answered him . " There's mischief enough . He shall go to France . " " Oh , let the young blade rip about the world for a year or two , squire , " Rangsley's voice said from behind us . In the end Ralph let me ...
... hold your tongue ! " Ralph answered him . " There's mischief enough . He shall go to France . " " Oh , let the young blade rip about the world for a year or two , squire , " Rangsley's voice said from behind us . In the end Ralph let me ...
Page 23
... hold of a piece of wainscoting , part of the frame of a panel ; he pulled it towards him , and , at the same mo- ment , a glazed show - case full of razors and brushes swung noise- lessly forward with an effect of the supernatural . A ...
... hold of a piece of wainscoting , part of the frame of a panel ; he pulled it towards him , and , at the same mo- ment , a glazed show - case full of razors and brushes swung noise- lessly forward with an effect of the supernatural . A ...
Page 27
... hold him in those tortuous intrigues of the Army of the Faith and Bourbon troops and Italian legions . From what I could understand , he must have played fast and loose in an insolent manner . And there was some woman offended . There ...
... hold him in those tortuous intrigues of the Army of the Faith and Bourbon troops and Italian legions . From what I could understand , he must have played fast and loose in an insolent manner . And there was some woman offended . There ...
Page 72
... hold my tongue , and that's enough , " I said . At that moment the old Don sat up and cleared his throat . Carlos sprang towards him with an infinite grace of tender obse- quiousness . He mentioned my name and the relationship , then ...
... hold my tongue , and that's enough , " I said . At that moment the old Don sat up and cleared his throat . Carlos sprang towards him with an infinite grace of tender obse- quiousness . He mentioned my name and the relationship , then ...
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... hold of the painter . The whispers of the girl urged me , but the thing was not easy ; the rope , fastened higher up , streamed away out of reach of my hand . At last , by watching the moment when it slacked , and throwing myself half ...
... hold of the painter . The whispers of the girl urged me , but the thing was not easy ; the rope , fastened higher up , streamed away out of reach of my hand . At last , by watching the moment when it slacked , and throwing myself half ...
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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