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Page 94
... sight of it , and then Major Cowper uprose before my eyes and knocked me back on board the schooner , tumbling after me himself . Twenty men flung themselves upon my body . I made no move- ment . The end had come . I hadn't the strength ...
... sight of it , and then Major Cowper uprose before my eyes and knocked me back on board the schooner , tumbling after me himself . Twenty men flung themselves upon my body . I made no move- ment . The end had come . I hadn't the strength ...
Page 95
... sight . Be- fore the ships had separated , I was carried below in the cabin of the schooner . They left me alone there , and I sat with my head on my arms for a long time . I did not think of anything at all ; I was too utterly done up ...
... sight . Be- fore the ships had separated , I was carried below in the cabin of the schooner . They left me alone there , and I sat with my head on my arms for a long time . I did not think of anything at all ; I was too utterly done up ...
Page 123
... sight of their coast , like a troop of vultures hopping about the carcass of a dead buffalo on a plain . When they judged the thing was fairly safe , they would attack with a great noise and show of ferocity ; do some hasty looting ...
... sight of their coast , like a troop of vultures hopping about the carcass of a dead buffalo on a plain . When they judged the thing was fairly safe , they would attack with a great noise and show of ferocity ; do some hasty looting ...
Page 136
... sight in the opposite direction , muttering angrily . I forgot them all . Everything on earth was still , and I seemed to be looking through a casement out of an enchanted castle stand- ing in the dreamland of romance . I breathed out ...
... sight in the opposite direction , muttering angrily . I forgot them all . Everything on earth was still , and I seemed to be looking through a casement out of an enchanted castle stand- ing in the dreamland of romance . I breathed out ...
Page 138
... sight of human misery , but " He raised his hands ; a genuine emo- tion overpowered him ; then , uncovering his face to stare at me , " He is lost , Don Juan , " he exclaimed . " Indeed , I fear we are about to lose him , your reverence ...
... sight of human misery , but " He raised his hands ; a genuine emo- tion overpowered him ; then , uncovering his face to stare at me , " He is lost , Don Juan , " he exclaimed . " Indeed , I fear we are about to lose him , your reverence ...
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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