Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page, 1914 - 428 pages |
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Page 56
... face , and he clawed effusively at my arm . " " 66 Well done ! " he bubbled over . You gave it them ; strike me , you did ! It did me good to see and hear . I wasn't going to poke my nose in , not I. But I admire you , my boy . " He was ...
... face , and he clawed effusively at my arm . " " 66 Well done ! " he bubbled over . You gave it them ; strike me , you did ! It did me good to see and hear . I wasn't going to poke my nose in , not I. But I admire you , my boy . " He was ...
Page 57
... face fell . " But there , you'll get round her . I'll see you through . " They drank some sangaree and became noisy . I wasn't very happy ; there was much truth in what David Macdonald had said . Topnambo would certainly do his best to ...
... face fell . " But there , you'll get round her . I'll see you through . " They drank some sangaree and became noisy . I wasn't very happy ; there was much truth in what David Macdonald had said . Topnambo would certainly do his best to ...
Page 60
... face had lost its moist bloom , its hardly distinguishable subcuta- neous flush . It had grown very , very pale ... faces of your officers when my uncle refused to go to their governor's palace ; there was to have been a fiesta , ' a ...
... face had lost its moist bloom , its hardly distinguishable subcuta- neous flush . It had grown very , very pale ... faces of your officers when my uncle refused to go to their governor's palace ; there was to have been a fiesta , ' a ...
Page 65
... face towards us , sat the old Don asleep in the high chair . His delicate white hands lay along the arms , one of them holding a gold vinaigrette ; his black , silver- headed cane was between his silk - stockinged legs . The diamond ...
... face towards us , sat the old Don asleep in the high chair . His delicate white hands lay along the arms , one of them holding a gold vinaigrette ; his black , silver- headed cane was between his silk - stockinged legs . The diamond ...
Page 66
... face turned up to the distant begrimed ceiling . " Now , I'll make you a fair offer , " O'Brien said suddenly , after an intent study of the insolent glance that I gave him . I disliked him because I knew nothing about the sort of man ...
... face turned up to the distant begrimed ceiling . " Now , I'll make you a fair offer , " O'Brien said suddenly , after an intent study of the insolent glance that I gave him . I disliked him because I knew nothing about the sort of man ...
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