Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page, 1923 - 541 pages |
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Page 70
... steps without even looking at me , and their carriage rolled away . Inside the inn I found a couple of merchant captains , one asleep with his head on the table and little rings shining in his great red ears ; the other very 70 ROMANCE.
... steps without even looking at me , and their carriage rolled away . Inside the inn I found a couple of merchant captains , one asleep with his head on the table and little rings shining in his great red ears ; the other very 70 ROMANCE.
Page 76
... step . As I cannoned off the drums , a hand caught at my arm , and someone else began to speak to me . It was old Ramon , who was telling me that he had a special kind of Manchester goods at his store . He explained that they had ...
... step . As I cannoned off the drums , a hand caught at my arm , and someone else began to speak to me . It was old Ramon , who was telling me that he had a special kind of Manchester goods at his store . He explained that they had ...
Page 144
... step , and shut her fan smartly . " Don Carlos himself had given me the dagger , " she said rapidly . The fan flew open ; a touch of the wind fanning her person came faintly upon my cheek with a suggestion of delicate perfume . She ...
... step , and shut her fan smartly . " Don Carlos himself had given me the dagger , " she said rapidly . The fan flew open ; a touch of the wind fanning her person came faintly upon my cheek with a suggestion of delicate perfume . She ...
Page 147
... step . I watched him go ; there was about his progress in state something ghostlike and royal , an old - time , de- cayed majesty . It was as if he had arisen before me after a hundred years ' sleep in his retreat - that man who , in ...
... step . I watched him go ; there was about his progress in state something ghostlike and royal , an old - time , de- cayed majesty . It was as if he had arisen before me after a hundred years ' sleep in his retreat - that man who , in ...
Page 153
... steps of rare passers - by woke lonely echoes , and strips of grass outlined in parallelograms the flagstones of the roadway . The Casa Riego raised its buttressed and loop - holed bulk near the shore , resembling a defensive outwork ...
... steps of rare passers - by woke lonely echoes , and strips of grass outlined in parallelograms the flagstones of the roadway . The Casa Riego raised its buttressed and loop - holed bulk near the shore , resembling a defensive outwork ...
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