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Page 216
... waiting outside in the moonlight . A strip of cloth fell from step to step down the middle of the broad white stairs . The stair- case was brilliantly lighted , and quite empty . The household was crowding the upper galleries ; the sob ...
... waiting outside in the moonlight . A strip of cloth fell from step to step down the middle of the broad white stairs . The stair- case was brilliantly lighted , and quite empty . The household was crowding the upper galleries ; the sob ...
Page 239
... waiting to draw the great coach after us , shone like streaks of ore in an infinitely rich silver mine . A double line of tapers kept the road to the cathedral , and a crowd of our negroes , the bell muzzles of their guns suggested in ...
... waiting to draw the great coach after us , shone like streaks of ore in an infinitely rich silver mine . A double line of tapers kept the road to the cathedral , and a crowd of our negroes , the bell muzzles of their guns suggested in ...
Page 249
... waiting on the Indiaman . The ship had been seen nearing the shore since noon . She was becalmed now . Perhaps they were looting her already . This fact had so far favoured our escape . There had been no strollers on the beach that ...
... waiting on the Indiaman . The ship had been seen nearing the shore since noon . She was becalmed now . Perhaps they were looting her already . This fact had so far favoured our escape . There had been no strollers on the beach that ...
Page 268
... waiting with folded hands for discovery . Castro seemed more inclined for the latter . Fortunately , the bandits wasted some time in blasphemous bickerings as to the order of the boats in the procession of attack . I urged my views upon ...
... waiting with folded hands for discovery . Castro seemed more inclined for the latter . Fortunately , the bandits wasted some time in blasphemous bickerings as to the order of the boats in the procession of attack . I urged my views upon ...
Page 269
... waiting . In the moment before the picaroons actually started , I became the prey of the most intense anxiety . I knew we were to seaward of the cluster . But of our position relatively to the boats , and to the English ship they would ...
... waiting . In the moment before the picaroons actually started , I became the prey of the most intense anxiety . I knew we were to seaward of the cluster . But of our position relatively to the boats , and to the English ship they would ...
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admiral Alguazil answered asked began boat Bow Street runners bowed breath caballero called Carlos Casa Riego cloak cried Cuba dark dead death deck Don Balthasar Don Carlos door ears El Rubio English eyes face Father Antonio fear feet felt glance gone hair hand hang Havana head heard heart honour immense Inglez Jamaica John Kemp Juan Juez Kemp Kingston knew lanthorn laughed light Lion lips looked Lord Stowell Lugareños Manuel matter murder murmured never Nichols night O'Brien once pirates Ramon Rangsley ravine Rio Medio romance Rooksby round sail saturnine 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 walked wall whispered Williams woman words