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Page 59
... thought that there wasn't very much to be exultant over . We had not really captured the pirates ; they had been handed over to the admiral by the Havana authorities — as an international cour- tesy I suppose , or else because they were ...
... thought that there wasn't very much to be exultant over . We had not really captured the pirates ; they had been handed over to the admiral by the Havana authorities — as an international cour- tesy I suppose , or else because they were ...
Page 61
... thought our governor's palace would have been hardly less barbarous . " But I am sorry , " he said suddenly , “ be- cause I wanted you — you and all your countrymen — to make a good impression on him . You must do it yourself alone ...
... thought our governor's palace would have been hardly less barbarous . " But I am sorry , " he said suddenly , “ be- cause I wanted you — you and all your countrymen — to make a good impression on him . You must do it yourself alone ...
Page 67
... thought there was no sin in doing harm to the English , even under the Mexican flag , whose legal existence they did not recognize . " Mind ye , it's an organized thing , I have something to say in it . It hurts Mr. Canning's Government ...
... thought there was no sin in doing harm to the English , even under the Mexican flag , whose legal existence they did not recognize . " Mind ye , it's an organized thing , I have something to say in it . It hurts Mr. Canning's Government ...
Page 72
... thought you . And if I entreat you , for the love of your mother — of your sister ? Juan , it is not for myself , it is" The young girl was pouring some drops from a green phial into a silver goblet ; she passed close to us , and handed ...
... thought you . And if I entreat you , for the love of your mother — of your sister ? Juan , it is not for myself , it is" The young girl was pouring some drops from a green phial into a silver goblet ; she passed close to us , and handed ...
Page 77
... thought that , after all , their purpose might be to drop me quickly overboard . Carlos ! " I cried . I felt the point of a knife on my breast . " Silence , senor ! " said a gruff voice . 66 This fear vanished when we came alongside a ...
... thought that , after all , their purpose might be to drop me quickly overboard . Carlos ! " I cried . I felt the point of a knife on my breast . " Silence , senor ! " said a gruff voice . 66 This fear vanished when we came alongside a ...
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Page 41 - Here's the mahn ye were speerin' after. Here's Macdonald." It was the voice of Barnes, and the voice of the every day. I discovered that I had been tremendously upset. The pulses in my temples were throbbing, and I wanted to shut my eyes — to sleep! I was tired; Romance had departed. Barnes and the Macdonald he had found for me represented all the laborious insects of the world; all the ants who are forever hauling immensely heavy and immensely unimportant burdens up weary hillocks, down steep...