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Page 99
... walked to the other side of the table , and sat looking at me in the glow of the lamp . " Your life hangs on a thread , " she murmured . I answered , " You have given it to me . Shall I never ? " I was acutely conscious of the imperfec ...
... walked to the other side of the table , and sat looking at me in the glow of the lamp . " Your life hangs on a thread , " she murmured . I answered , " You have given it to me . Shall I never ? " I was acutely conscious of the imperfec ...
Page 102
... walked away proudly , without deigning as much as to look at me twice , as if to see a man clamber on board a ship ten miles from the land was the most usual occurrence . He was , I found after- wards , an absurd , pompous person , as ...
... walked away proudly , without deigning as much as to look at me twice , as if to see a man clamber on board a ship ten miles from the land was the most usual occurrence . He was , I found after- wards , an absurd , pompous person , as ...
Page 104
... walked proudly away . He was too dignified a person to explain . It was left to me . Frequenting , as I had been doing , Ramon's store , which was a great gossiping centre of the maritime world in Kingston , I knew the faces and the ...
... walked proudly away . He was too dignified a person to explain . It was left to me . Frequenting , as I had been doing , Ramon's store , which was a great gossiping centre of the maritime world in Kingston , I knew the faces and the ...
Page 140
... walked along the We walked along the upper gallery ; his cane tapped before me on the tessellated pavement ; below , the water splashed in the marble basins ; glass lanthorns hung glimmering between the pillars and , in wrought silver ...
... walked along the We walked along the upper gallery ; his cane tapped before me on the tessellated pavement ; below , the water splashed in the marble basins ; glass lanthorns hung glimmering between the pillars and , in wrought silver ...
Page 142
... . We were served noiselessly . A battalion of young lusty negroes , in blue jackets laced with silver , walked about barefooted under the command of the old major- domo . He , alone , had white silk stockings 142 ROMANCE.
... . We were served noiselessly . A battalion of young lusty negroes , in blue jackets laced with silver , walked about barefooted under the command of the old major- domo . He , alone , had white silk stockings 142 ROMANCE.
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