Doom Castle: A RomanceBlackwood and Sons, 1901 - 322 pages |
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... dark with pine , had the mystery of a vault . It was difficult to believe his pursuers harboured there , perhaps re- loading the weapon that had put so doleful a con- clusion to his travels with the gallant little horse he had bought on ...
... dark with pine , had the mystery of a vault . It was difficult to believe his pursuers harboured there , perhaps re- loading the weapon that had put so doleful a con- clusion to his travels with the gallant little horse he had bought on ...
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... dark keep that held the promontory , now the one object in all the land- scape that had to his senses some aspect of human fellowship and sympathy . The caterans were assured ; Dieu du ciel , how they ran too ! Those in advance broke ...
... dark keep that held the promontory , now the one object in all the land- scape that had to his senses some aspect of human fellowship and sympathy . The caterans were assured ; Dieu du ciel , how they ran too ! Those in advance broke ...
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... dark and square - built , flanked to the southern corner by a round turret , lit by few windows , and these but tiny and suspicious , it was as Scots and arrogant as the thistle that had pricked Count Victor's feet when first he set ...
... dark and square - built , flanked to the southern corner by a round turret , lit by few windows , and these but tiny and suspicious , it was as Scots and arrogant as the thistle that had pricked Count Victor's feet when first he set ...
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... dark fabric , and a wig conferred on him all the more of the look of a lowland merchant than of a chief of clan . He was a man at least twenty years the senior of his visitor- a handsome man of his kind , dark , deliberate of his ...
... dark fabric , and a wig conferred on him all the more of the look of a lowland merchant than of a chief of clan . He was a man at least twenty years the senior of his visitor- a handsome man of his kind , dark , deliberate of his ...
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... dark , " he said when the point dropped and Count Victor recovered . " Pardon , " said his guest . " I am vexed at what you may perhaps look on as a trifle . The ruffians attacked me a mile or two farther up the coast , shot my horse ...
... dark , " he said when the point dropped and Count Victor recovered . " Pardon , " said his guest . " I am vexed at what you may perhaps look on as a trifle . The ruffians attacked me a mile or two farther up the coast , shot my horse ...
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