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Page 52
... have caused me extraordinary emotions , as many as if I had seen an ele- phant in a traveling show . As for going back to my old life , it didn't seem to be possible . O CHAPTER II NE night I was riding alone towards 52 ROMANCE.
... have caused me extraordinary emotions , as many as if I had seen an ele- phant in a traveling show . As for going back to my old life , it didn't seem to be possible . O CHAPTER II NE night I was riding alone towards 52 ROMANCE.
Page 55
... seen him kneeling on the ground with his head pinned down by the hunchback . I said loftily : " What did you set him on a little beggar like that for ? You were three to one . What did you expect ? " The Admiral swore . Oldham began to ...
... seen him kneeling on the ground with his head pinned down by the hunchback . I said loftily : " What did you set him on a little beggar like that for ? You were three to one . What did you expect ? " The Admiral swore . Oldham began to ...
Page 56
... seen ! " and he drank my health in a glass of punch . David Macdonald joined us , looming through wreaths of to- bacco smoke . He was always very nice in his dress , and had washed himself into a state of enviable coolness . " They won ...
... seen ! " and he drank my health in a glass of punch . David Macdonald joined us , looming through wreaths of to- bacco smoke . He was always very nice in his dress , and had washed himself into a state of enviable coolness . " They won ...
Page 57
... seen a hanging , and a man who hadn't was rare in those days . I wanted to keep out of the way , but it was impossible to get a boatman to row me off to the Lion . They were all dying to sce the show , and , half curious , half ...
... seen a hanging , and a man who hadn't was rare in those days . I wanted to keep out of the way , but it was impossible to get a boatman to row me off to the Lion . They were all dying to sce the show , and , half curious , half ...
Page 59
... seen the nigger's tongue sticking out . Others thought that there wasn't very much to be exultant over . We had not really captured the pirates ; they had been handed over to the admiral by the Havana authorities — as an international ...
... seen the nigger's tongue sticking out . Others thought that there wasn't very much to be exultant over . We had not really captured the pirates ; they had been handed over to the admiral by the Havana authorities — as an international ...
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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