Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page, 1923 - 541 pages |
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Page 127
... standing in tall grass , running back , hiding in a steep valley ; silver - gray huts with ragged dun roofs , like dishevelled shocks of hair ; a great pink church - face , very tall and narrow , pyramidal towards the top , and pierced ...
... standing in tall grass , running back , hiding in a steep valley ; silver - gray huts with ragged dun roofs , like dishevelled shocks of hair ; a great pink church - face , very tall and narrow , pyramidal towards the top , and pierced ...
Page 142
... standing there by the seashore like a tomb of warlike glories . They built their houses thus , centuries ago , when the bands of buccaneers , indomit- able and atrocious , had haunted their conquest with a reminder of mortality and ...
... standing there by the seashore like a tomb of warlike glories . They built their houses thus , centuries ago , when the bands of buccaneers , indomit- able and atrocious , had haunted their conquest with a reminder of mortality and ...
Page 164
... long and careful action . And for this he - Carlos - had no time ; and I had no standing , no relations , no skill even . " But what is my line of conduct , Carlos ? " I in- 1 sisted ; while Father Antonio , from whom Carlos had 164 ...
... long and careful action . And for this he - Carlos - had no time ; and I had no standing , no relations , no skill even . " But what is my line of conduct , Carlos ? " I in- 1 sisted ; while Father Antonio , from whom Carlos had 164 ...
Page 171
... standing in the dreamland of romance . I breathed out the name of Seraphina into the moonlight in an increasing transport . 66 ' Seraphina ! Seraphina ! Seraphina ! " The repeated beauty of the sound intoxicated me . " Seraphina ! " I ...
... standing in the dreamland of romance . I breathed out the name of Seraphina into the moonlight in an increasing transport . 66 ' Seraphina ! Seraphina ! Seraphina ! " The repeated beauty of the sound intoxicated me . " Seraphina ! " I ...
Page 186
... standing side by side . I had stepped quickly towards her , asking myself what he would do . He did not seem to be armed ; neither had I any weapon about me . Would he fly at my throat ? I was the bigger , and the younger man . I wished ...
... standing side by side . I had stepped quickly towards her , asking myself what he would do . He did not seem to be armed ; neither had I any weapon about me . Would he fly at my throat ? I was the bigger , and the younger man . I wished ...
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