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Page 73
... sort of uneasiness ; I could by no means understand the connection between the old Don and what had gone before , and I did not , in a purely conventional sense , know how long I ought to stop . The sky through the barred windows had ...
... sort of uneasiness ; I could by no means understand the connection between the old Don and what had gone before , and I did not , in a purely conventional sense , know how long I ought to stop . The sky through the barred windows had ...
Page 84
... sort of captivity , for more than one sort . And my imagi- nation had been captured , enslaved already by the image of that young girl who had called me her English cousin , the girl with the lizard , the girl with the dagger ! And with ...
... sort of captivity , for more than one sort . And my imagi- nation had been captured , enslaved already by the image of that young girl who had called me her English cousin , the girl with the lizard , the girl with the dagger ! And with ...
Page 85
... sort of people that one would have chosen for companions on a pleasure - trip . Major Cowper's wife lay all day in a deck chair , alternately drawing to her and repulsing the whining little girl . The major talked to me about the ...
... sort of people that one would have chosen for companions on a pleasure - trip . Major Cowper's wife lay all day in a deck chair , alternately drawing to her and repulsing the whining little girl . The major talked to me about the ...
Page 86
... above her bulwarks . She swerved a little out of her course , and a sort of mushroom of smoke grew out of her side ; there was a little gleam of smoldering light hidden in its heart . The spitting bang followed 86 ROMANCE.
... above her bulwarks . She swerved a little out of her course , and a sort of mushroom of smoke grew out of her side ; there was a little gleam of smoldering light hidden in its heart . The spitting bang followed 86 ROMANCE.
Page 92
... on one side , and then came back to me . " You drop into the ship , " he said , " out of the clouds . Out of the clouds , I say . You tell us some sort of cock - and - bull story . I say it looks deuced suspicious . " He took.
... on one side , and then came back to me . " You drop into the ship , " he said , " out of the clouds . Out of the clouds , I say . You tell us some sort of cock - and - bull story . I say it looks deuced suspicious . " He took.
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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