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Page 124
... wonder as I write these words ; but the man did look upon it as a war and nothing else . What he had had the audacity to propose to me had been treason , not thieving . It had a glamour for him which , he supposed , a Separationist ( as ...
... wonder as I write these words ; but the man did look upon it as a war and nothing else . What he had had the audacity to propose to me had been treason , not thieving . It had a glamour for him which , he supposed , a Separationist ( as ...
Page 126
... wonder to stretch out my hands to from afar ; and yet I was permitted to whisper intimately to this my dream , to this vision . We had to put our heads close together , talking of the enemy and of the shadow over the house ; while under ...
... wonder to stretch out my hands to from afar ; and yet I was permitted to whisper intimately to this my dream , to this vision . We had to put our heads close together , talking of the enemy and of the shadow over the house ; while under ...
Page 132
... wonder what idea she had formed of my father , of my mother , my sister— " Senora Dona Veronica Rooksby , " she called her of the landscape , of the life , of the sky . Her eyes turned to me seriously . Once , stooping , she plucked an ...
... wonder what idea she had formed of my father , of my mother , my sister— " Senora Dona Veronica Rooksby , " she called her of the landscape , of the life , of the sky . Her eyes turned to me seriously . Once , stooping , she plucked an ...
Page 141
... wonder . The teeth of the plump little one — La Chica — rattled violently like castanets . She moved aside with a hysterical little laugh , and glanced upwards at me . I stopped , as if I had intruded ; of all the persons in the sick ...
... wonder . The teeth of the plump little one — La Chica — rattled violently like castanets . She moved aside with a hysterical little laugh , and glanced upwards at me . I stopped , as if I had intruded ; of all the persons in the sick ...
Page 142
... wonder before the perishable triumph of life and love . And only the impatient tapping of the sick man's hand on the stiff silk of the coverlet was heard . It called to me . Seraphina's unstirring head was lighted strongly by a two ...
... wonder before the perishable triumph of life and love . And only the impatient tapping of the sick man's hand on the stiff silk of the coverlet was heard . It called to me . Seraphina's unstirring head was lighted strongly by a two ...
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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...