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... night a fishing - boat was wrecked within sight of land , and the alarm was given along the coast that all souls on board were in immi- nent danger . The boldest fisherman , however , did not dare to brave the breakers that night , and ...
... night a fishing - boat was wrecked within sight of land , and the alarm was given along the coast that all souls on board were in immi- nent danger . The boldest fisherman , however , did not dare to brave the breakers that night , and ...
Page 45
... night , distinguished the heroic stranger by the more grateful appellation of Newfoundland . " แ Hence , no doubt , the indifference evinced by the countess on the present occasion . We all very cheerfully accepted this explanation of ...
... night , distinguished the heroic stranger by the more grateful appellation of Newfoundland . " แ Hence , no doubt , the indifference evinced by the countess on the present occasion . We all very cheerfully accepted this explanation of ...
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... nights in playing at cards and drinking Champagne , by all means . If you can do this , Napoleon , by the side of you , was a tyro in the art of government . But if the enemy is not to be banished by this or any other means , then let ...
... nights in playing at cards and drinking Champagne , by all means . If you can do this , Napoleon , by the side of you , was a tyro in the art of government . But if the enemy is not to be banished by this or any other means , then let ...
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... night- long dance ! " Is that all you have to say to the sufferer ? But they do drink strong tea ; they do go to crowd- ed balls ; they do dance from morning to night . They do nothing else , indeed . Well , and what then ? Ether and ...
... night- long dance ! " Is that all you have to say to the sufferer ? But they do drink strong tea ; they do go to crowd- ed balls ; they do dance from morning to night . They do nothing else , indeed . Well , and what then ? Ether and ...
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... Night had long fallen , and all was dark around me before I could rouse myself from the stupor of amaze- ment into which I had been cast , no less by the mys terious and unintelligible words which I had over- heard , than by the vivid ...
... Night had long fallen , and all was dark around me before I could rouse myself from the stupor of amaze- ment into which I had been cast , no less by the mys terious and unintelligible words which I had over- heard , than by the vivid ...
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ALEXANDER WILLIAM KINGLAKE Amasis amethyst apparition appeared arms beautiful boat body Bois de Boulogne brain Breslau brother CHAPTER chateau child Cloth cold consciousness Count Edmond countenance countess croupiers DANIEL BUTTERFIELD dark dead death Divine door dream Dutch Republic ed balls Egyptian eternity face fancy fatal ring father feel Felix felt finger forever Gentleman in Black hand haps hast heard heart honor hour human imagination Juliet Kabyl least light lips living look Loreley man's melancholy ment mind mond mother mysterious nature never night noble object once pain papyrus passed passion patient perhaps physician poor ring rock seemed seize sensation sense Sethos side sight silent Silesia soul sound spectre strange stretched suddenly swimmer thee Theresa thing tion Trente et Quarante turned valet voice words young
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