Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page, 1923 - 541 pages |
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Page 110
... remained on the other tack , with her foresheet to wind- ward . Major Cowper said it was a scandal . The country was going to the dogs because merchantmen were not compelled by law to carry guns . He spluttered into my ears that there ...
... remained on the other tack , with her foresheet to wind- ward . Major Cowper said it was a scandal . The country was going to the dogs because merchantmen were not compelled by law to carry guns . He spluttered into my ears that there ...
Page 111
... remained hove to abeam . But in the man in command of the boarding party I recognized Tomas Castro ! He was a pirate . My surmises were correct . He looked the part to the life , in a plumed hat , cloaked to the chin , and standing ...
... remained hove to abeam . But in the man in command of the boarding party I recognized Tomas Castro ! He was a pirate . My surmises were correct . He looked the part to the life , in a plumed hat , cloaked to the chin , and standing ...
Page 150
... remained silent , overwhelmed at this secret of my innermost heart , voiced by his bloodless lips - as if a dream had come to pass , as if a miracle had taken place . He added , with an indefinable smile of an almost unearthly ...
... remained silent , overwhelmed at this secret of my innermost heart , voiced by his bloodless lips - as if a dream had come to pass , as if a miracle had taken place . He added , with an indefinable smile of an almost unearthly ...
Page 151
... remained plunged in that meditation of the old which resembles sleep , as sleep resembles death . The priest , lighted up by the narrow , bright streak of the window , was read- ing his breviary through a pair of enormous spectacles ...
... remained plunged in that meditation of the old which resembles sleep , as sleep resembles death . The priest , lighted up by the narrow , bright streak of the window , was read- ing his breviary through a pair of enormous spectacles ...
Page 158
... remained to me always unattainable and romantic - unique , with all the unexpressed promises of love such as no world had ever known . And naturally , because for me , hitherto , the world had held no woman . She was an apparition of ...
... remained to me always unattainable and romantic - unique , with all the unexpressed promises of love such as no world had ever known . And naturally , because for me , hitherto , the world had held no woman . She was an apparition of ...
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