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... whisper . " Mum , now ! It's all right . " It withdrew itself a little from my ear and called , " Now then , ready with them . When I say three . . . " " I heard groans and curses , and began to shout for help . My voice came back in an ...
... whisper . " Mum , now ! It's all right . " It withdrew itself a little from my ear and called , " Now then , ready with them . When I say three . . . " " I heard groans and curses , and began to shout for help . My voice came back in an ...
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... whispered consultation . Carlos and Castro had waited in their hiding - place , having been spectators of the arrival of the runners and of my capture . I gathered this long afterwards . At that moment I was conscious only of the motion ...
... whispered consultation . Carlos and Castro had waited in their hiding - place , having been spectators of the arrival of the runners and of my capture . I gathered this long afterwards . At that moment I was conscious only of the motion ...
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... whispered seductively , " and I like you , John Kemp . You are young - very young yet . But I love you very much for your own sake , and for the sake of one I shall never see again . ” He fascinated me . He was all eyes in the PART ...
... whispered seductively , " and I like you , John Kemp . You are young - very young yet . But I love you very much for your own sake , and for the sake of one I shall never see again . ” He fascinated me . He was all eyes in the PART ...
Page 39
... steel . He began to whisper in the other's hairy ear . I caught : " You are a fool . He will not make us to be molested , he is my kinsman . " Castro made a reluctant gesture towards Barnes ' chest that PART FIRST 39.
... steel . He began to whisper in the other's hairy ear . I caught : " You are a fool . He will not make us to be molested , he is my kinsman . " Castro made a reluctant gesture towards Barnes ' chest that PART FIRST 39.
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... whispering with someone within , returned to me . " My uncle still sleeps , " he said . " I must keep you a little longer . Ah , yes , the Señor O'Brien . He shall marry my cousin , I think , when I am dead . " " You don't know these ...
... whispering with someone within , returned to me . " My uncle still sleeps , " he said . " I must keep you a little longer . Ah , yes , the Señor O'Brien . He shall marry my cousin , I think , when I am dead . " " You don't know these ...
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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
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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