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Page 26
... lived with Carlos in the cabin — Castro in the half - deck ; but we were all three pretty con- stantly together , and they being the only Spaniards on board , we were more or less isolated from the other passengers . Looking at my ...
... lived with Carlos in the cabin — Castro in the half - deck ; but we were all three pretty con- stantly together , and they being the only Spaniards on board , we were more or less isolated from the other passengers . Looking at my ...
Page 48
... lived at the bottom of a bottle - necked creek with tooth rocks all over the entrance that was the sort of place Rio Medio was reported to be . • I hadn't much cared about either party — I was looking out for romance — but I inclined a ...
... lived at the bottom of a bottle - necked creek with tooth rocks all over the entrance that was the sort of place Rio Medio was reported to be . • I hadn't much cared about either party — I was looking out for romance — but I inclined a ...
Page 66
... in what I have in my mind for you . " He had heard frequently from Carlos that I was a desperate and aristocratically lawless young man , who had lived in a district entirely given up to desperate and murderous smugglers . But 66 ROMANCE.
... in what I have in my mind for you . " He had heard frequently from Carlos that I was a desperate and aristocratically lawless young man , who had lived in a district entirely given up to desperate and murderous smugglers . But 66 ROMANCE.
Page 99
... lived well , on the whole . He bent his head over the strings , plucked one , tightened a peg , plucked it again , then set the instrument on the table , and dropped onto the mattress . " Will you have some rum ? " he said . You have ...
... lived well , on the whole . He bent his head over the strings , plucked one , tightened a peg , plucked it again , then set the instrument on the table , and dropped onto the mattress . " Will you have some rum ? " he said . You have ...
Page 103
... lived in Havana with great splendor , but now , in his failing years , had retired to his palace , from which he had since only twice set foot . This had only been when official ceremonies of extreme importance , such as the ...
... lived in Havana with great splendor , but now , in his failing years , had retired to his palace , from which he had since only twice set foot . This had only been when official ceremonies of extreme importance , such as the ...
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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 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...