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... step . As I cannoned off the drums , a hand caught at my arm , and some- one 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 some- one 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 115
... 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 117
... step . I watched him go ; there was about his progress in state some- thing ghostlike and royal , an old - time , decayed majesty . It was as if he had arisen before me after a hundred years ' sleep in his retreat -that man who , in his ...
... step . I watched him go ; there was about his progress in state some- thing ghostlike and royal , an old - time , decayed majesty . It was as if he had arisen before me after a hundred years ' sleep in his retreat -that man who , in his ...
Page 149
... step forward ; and , holding the candle well up , as though for the purpose of examining my face carefully , he never looked my way , while he and Seraphina were exchanging a few phrases in French which I did not understand well enough ...
... step forward ; and , holding the candle well up , as though for the purpose of examining my face carefully , he never looked my way , while he and Seraphina were exchanging a few phrases in French which I did not understand well enough ...
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... step left open to me to thwart his purpose ; the only thing I could do just then for the furtherance of my mission to save Seraphina from his intrigues . I was oppressed by the misery of it all . As to killing him as he stood - if I ...
... step left open to me to thwart his purpose ; the only thing I could do just then for the furtherance of my mission to save Seraphina from his intrigues . I was oppressed by the misery of it all . As to killing him as he stood - if I ...
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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