Overland Monthly and Out West MagazineA. Roman and Company, 1887 |
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... girl who now called her Tia - aunt - had been rescued . The use of this appellation had been brought about by Ruiz in his evident un- certainty as to how the apparent relation- ship between his patroness and her pro- tegé should be ...
... girl who now called her Tia - aunt - had been rescued . The use of this appellation had been brought about by Ruiz in his evident un- certainty as to how the apparent relation- ship between his patroness and her pro- tegé should be ...
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... girl , gazing from her cell - like retreat across the court had long been so familiar . She had never danced since the night that she had fled from the wedding fiesta into the waiting arms of Doña Isabel . She had thought of the scene ...
... girl , gazing from her cell - like retreat across the court had long been so familiar . She had never danced since the night that she had fled from the wedding fiesta into the waiting arms of Doña Isabel . She had thought of the scene ...
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... girl's face glowed with excitement ; she was ready for any adventure , the more daring , the more welcome . Ashley Ward looked at her with a strange pride and ad- miration — this was a nature that no shame could crush , no outward fate ...
... girl's face glowed with excitement ; she was ready for any adventure , the more daring , the more welcome . Ashley Ward looked at her with a strange pride and ad- miration — this was a nature that no shame could crush , no outward fate ...
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... girl of the siren face , which the very voice of fate had seemed to bid him seek in this far land , stepped eagerly and lightly forth to meet him . XXXIV . In an angle of the corridor , where from sunrise to sunset a woman usually sat ...
... girl of the siren face , which the very voice of fate had seemed to bid him seek in this far land , stepped eagerly and lightly forth to meet him . XXXIV . In an angle of the corridor , where from sunrise to sunset a woman usually sat ...
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... girl's unreasoning passion , but interposed quietly , " We lose time , Señorita , which is prudent neither for you nor for me . I beg you will listen to what I have to say . that this is no hour to talk of my courage or the lack of it ...
... girl's unreasoning passion , but interposed quietly , " We lose time , Señorita , which is prudent neither for you nor for me . I beg you will listen to what I have to say . that this is no hour to talk of my courage or the lack of it ...
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