Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page, 1914 - 428 pages |
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Page 42
... throat , with a sound resembling the coughing of a defective pump , and a mere trickle of a voice asked : " Hwhat evidence have ye of identitee ? " " I hadn't any at all , and began to finger my buttonholes as shame- faced as a pauper ...
... throat , with a sound resembling the coughing of a defective pump , and a mere trickle of a voice asked : " Hwhat evidence have ye of identitee ? " " I hadn't any at all , and began to finger my buttonholes as shame- faced as a pauper ...
Page 72
... throat . Carlos sprang towards him with an infinite grace of tender obse- quiousness . He mentioned my name and the relationship , then rehearsed the innumerable titles of his uncle , ending " and patron of the Bishopric of Pinar del ...
... throat . Carlos sprang towards him with an infinite grace of tender obse- quiousness . He mentioned my name and the relationship , then rehearsed the innumerable titles of his uncle , ending " and patron of the Bishopric of Pinar del ...
Page 78
... throat , her hands . I knew her ; I seemed to have known her for years . A rush of strange , sweet feeling made me dumb . She was looking at me , her lips set , her eyes wide and still ; and suddenly she said : 66 Ask nothing . The land ...
... throat , her hands . I knew her ; I seemed to have known her for years . A rush of strange , sweet feeling made me dumb . She was looking at me , her lips set , her eyes wide and still ; and suddenly she said : 66 Ask nothing . The land ...
Page 148
... throat ? I was the bigger , and the younger man . I wished he would . But he found a way of making me feel all his other advantages . He did not recognize my exist- ence . He appeared not to see me at all . He seemed not to be aware of ...
... throat ? I was the bigger , and the younger man . I wished he would . But he found a way of making me feel all his other advantages . He did not recognize my exist- ence . He appeared not to see me at all . He seemed not to be aware of ...
Page 151
... throat with a swift movement of a hand that disappeared at once under the lace . And be cause I could not speak , I— Don Juan , you have just offered me your life — I— Misericordia ! What else was possible ? I made with my head the sign ...
... throat with a swift movement of a hand that disappeared at once under the lace . And be cause I could not speak , I— Don Juan , you have just offered me your life — I— Misericordia ! What else was possible ? I made with my head the sign ...
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