Century Monthly Magazine, Volume 113Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Scribner & Company; The Century Company, 1926 - American literature |
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Page 70
... turned and left the room . Late that afternoon Van Leason saw the missionary tiptoeing into the bedroom to say good - by to his wife- for the last time - and felt himself , quite suddenly , filled with horror at the thought of his own ...
... turned and left the room . Late that afternoon Van Leason saw the missionary tiptoeing into the bedroom to say good - by to his wife- for the last time - and felt himself , quite suddenly , filled with horror at the thought of his own ...
Page 72
... turned with his cheek against hers , Van Leason became aware of eyes watch- ing them through the thick dusk ; a face thickly barred with white paint which , in a flash , was gone . A few moments later , strangely calmed by the sense of ...
... turned with his cheek against hers , Van Leason became aware of eyes watch- ing them through the thick dusk ; a face thickly barred with white paint which , in a flash , was gone . A few moments later , strangely calmed by the sense of ...
Page 73
... turned aside by the thick shawl in which Lottie was inwrapped -grazed his arm ; his own men shout- ing , running ; more lights , more shots ; his stupid bewilderment as to what he was to do with the child in his arms as he bent over her ...
... turned aside by the thick shawl in which Lottie was inwrapped -grazed his arm ; his own men shout- ing , running ; more lights , more shots ; his stupid bewilderment as to what he was to do with the child in his arms as he bent over her ...
Page 125
... turned into a ruin ? Nothing could so ex- cite the people as the report that a young god had come into the world , had been rejected and put to a shameful death , but had risen from the dead , and would now , because of his temporary ...
... turned into a ruin ? Nothing could so ex- cite the people as the report that a young god had come into the world , had been rejected and put to a shameful death , but had risen from the dead , and would now , because of his temporary ...
Page 133
... turned to old ivory against the bed- linen . However , the eyes of the archdeacon Lucien , who since the death of Carlo Bonaparte had been the nominal male head of the family , sparkled for the moment as brightly and beadily as ever ...
... turned to old ivory against the bed- linen . However , the eyes of the archdeacon Lucien , who since the death of Carlo Bonaparte had been the nominal male head of the family , sparkled for the moment as brightly and beadily as ever ...
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