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Page 58
... sight above the heads , clinging to each other for support , and being drawn slowly along . The little worsted balls on the infantry shakos bobbed all round their feet . They were a sorry - looking group , those pirates ; very wild ...
... sight above the heads , clinging to each other for support , and being drawn slowly along . The little worsted balls on the infantry shakos bobbed all round their feet . They were a sorry - looking group , those pirates ; very wild ...
Page 60
... sight of Seraphina and of her father , and then came my meeting with Carlos . I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw him come out with extended hand . It was an extraordinary sensation , that of talking to Carlos again . He seemed to ...
... sight of Seraphina and of her father , and then came my meeting with Carlos . I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw him come out with extended hand . It was an extraordinary sensation , that of talking to Carlos again . He seemed to ...
Page 76
... sight , which it dims . Except for sight , which I hadn't at all , I had the use of them all , and all reported unpleasant things . I ached and smarted with my head in a sack , with my mouth full of flour that had gone moldy and ...
... sight , which it dims . Except for sight , which I hadn't at all , I had the use of them all , and all reported unpleasant things . I ached and smarted with my head in a sack , with my mouth full of flour that had gone moldy and ...
Page 83
... sight of me for the first time , and positively jumped a foot high with astonishment . 66 Who on earth's that there ? " His astonishment was comprehensible . The major , without deigning to enlighten him , walked proudly away . He was ...
... sight of me for the first time , and positively jumped a foot high with astonishment . 66 Who on earth's that there ? " His astonishment was comprehensible . The major , without deigning to enlighten him , walked proudly away . He was ...
Page 84
... sight ahead , steering , apparently , the same course with ourselves . Her superior sailing had an enormous influence upon my for- tunes ; and I was more adrift in the world than ever before , more in the dark as to what awaited me than ...
... sight ahead , steering , apparently , the same course with ourselves . Her superior sailing had an enormous influence upon my for- tunes ; and I was more adrift in the world than ever before , more in the dark as to what awaited me than ...
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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...