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... thing seemed odd , laughable still . Castro began to parade round me : it was as if he were a cock performing its saltatory rites before attacking . There was the same tenseness of muscle . He stepped with extraordinary care on the ...
... thing seemed odd , laughable still . Castro began to parade round me : it was as if he were a cock performing its saltatory rites before attacking . There was the same tenseness of muscle . He stepped with extraordinary care on the ...
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... things , parts of my forgotten boyhood , and she talked of them and talked of them , until that past seemed a wholly desirable time , and the present a dull thing . Journeying in search of romance - and that , after all , is our ...
... things , parts of my forgotten boyhood , and she talked of them and talked of them , until that past seemed a wholly desirable time , and the present a dull thing . Journeying in search of romance - and that , after all , is our ...
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... things under the flagstaff in front of Admiral Rowley's house , the King's House , as it was called . The admiral himself was said to have extensive dealings with Ramon ; he had at least the reputation of desiring to turn an honest ...
... things under the flagstaff in front of Admiral Rowley's house , the King's House , as it was called . The admiral himself was said to have extensive dealings with Ramon ; he had at least the reputation of desiring to turn an honest ...
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... thing more pleasant . 46 Sir Charles continued to clamor for Tinsley , his flag lieutenant , who , as a matter of fact , was the man drunk in the wheelbarrow . When this was explained by the shouts of the negroes , he grunted , Umph ...
... thing more pleasant . 46 Sir Charles continued to clamor for Tinsley , his flag lieutenant , who , as a matter of fact , was the man drunk in the wheelbarrow . When this was explained by the shouts of the negroes , he grunted , Umph ...
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... thing like a damaged cat . I couldn't stand that , come what might of it . I ran hastily up the steps , hoping to be able to make them recover their senses , a force of purely conventional emotion impelling me . It was no business of ...
... thing like a damaged cat . I couldn't stand that , come what might of it . I ran hastily up the steps , hoping to be able to make them recover their senses , a force of purely conventional emotion impelling me . It was no business of ...
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admiral answered asked began boat Bow Street runners bowed breath caballero called Carlos Casa Riego cloak cried Cuba dark David Macdonald dead death deck Don Balthasar Don Carlos door ears El Rubio English eyes face Father Antonio fear feet felt gone hair hand hang Havana head heard heart immense Inglez Jamaica John Kemp Juan Juez Kemp Kingston knew laughed light Lion lips looked Lord Stowell Lugareños Macdonald Manuel matter murmured never Nichols night Nikola O'Brien once pirates pistol Ramon Rangsley ravine remember Rio Medio romance Rooksby round sail schooner Sebright seemed seen señor señorita Seraphina shadow ship shoulders shouted side sight silence smile sort soul sound Spanish stood suddenly talk tell thing thought throat Tomas Castro turned uncle voice waiting walked wall whispered Williams woman words
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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