Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page, 1914 - 428 pages |
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Page 39
... seemed odd , laughable still . Castro began to parade round me : it was as if he were a cock performing its saltatory rites before attacking . There was the same tenseness of muscle . He stepped with extraordinary care on the points of ...
... seemed odd , laughable still . Castro began to parade round me : it was as if he were a cock performing its saltatory rites before attacking . There was the same tenseness of muscle . He stepped with extraordinary care on the points of ...
Page 42
... seemed to be at least half an hour before Macdonald cleared his throat , with a sound resembling the coughing of a defective pump , and a mere trickle of a voice asked : " Hwhat evidence have ye of identitee ? " " I hadn't any at all ...
... seemed to be at least half an hour before Macdonald cleared his throat , with a sound resembling the coughing of a defective pump , and a mere trickle of a voice asked : " Hwhat evidence have ye of identitee ? " " I hadn't any at all ...
Page 49
... seemed to be a constant succession of shouts of laughter , merging into undignified staggers of white trousers through blue nights - round the corners of ragged huts . I never understood the hidden sources of their humor , and I had not ...
... seemed to be a constant succession of shouts of laughter , merging into undignified staggers of white trousers through blue nights - round the corners of ragged huts . I never understood the hidden sources of their humor , and I had not ...
Page 50
... seemed mysterious when I had seen him in company with Carlos and Castro ; but re - introduced in the homely atmosphere of the Macdonalds , he had become merely a saturnine , tall , dusky- featured , gold - spectacled Spaniard , and very ...
... seemed mysterious when I had seen him in company with Carlos and Castro ; but re - introduced in the homely atmosphere of the Macdonalds , he had become merely a saturnine , tall , dusky- featured , gold - spectacled Spaniard , and very ...
Page 52
... seemed impossible that anyone could be as interested as she in the things that were happening over there . She had had a son ; one of Ralph's aunts was its godmother . She and Ralph had been to Bath last spring ; the country wanted ...
... seemed impossible that anyone could be as interested as she in the things that were happening over there . She had had a son ; one of Ralph's aunts was its godmother . She and Ralph had been to Bath last spring ; the country wanted ...
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admiral answered asked began boat Bow Street runners bowed breath caballero called Carlos Casa Riego cloak cried Cuba dark David Macdonald dead death deck Don Balthasar Don Carlos door ears El Rubio English eyes face Father Antonio fear feet felt gone hair hand hang Havana head heard heart immense Inglez Jamaica John Kemp Juan Juez Kemp Kingston knew laughed light Lion lips looked Lord Stowell Lugareños Macdonald Manuel matter murmured never Nichols night Nikola O'Brien once pirates pistol Ramon Rangsley ravine remember Rio Medio romance Rooksby round sail schooner Sebright seemed seen señor señorita Seraphina shadow ship shoulders shouted side sight silence smile sort soul sound Spanish stood suddenly talk tell thing thought throat Tomas Castro turned uncle voice waiting walked wall whispered Williams woman words