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Page 11
... Street , Boston , yet she conveyed the effect of an indisputable sensitiveness , like the stroke of a light dry hand . Her face was long and thin , etched by pain . Her hair was parted and drawn back , according to Rossetti , low on her ...
... Street , Boston , yet she conveyed the effect of an indisputable sensitiveness , like the stroke of a light dry hand . Her face was long and thin , etched by pain . Her hair was parted and drawn back , according to Rossetti , low on her ...
Page 14
... Street for three or four days . I called her up at once , and she asked me to dine tête - à - tête . I have just sat through the whole evening with her , before the open French window of her high room , in the half - dark . We talked ...
... Street for three or four days . I called her up at once , and she asked me to dine tête - à - tête . I have just sat through the whole evening with her , before the open French window of her high room , in the half - dark . We talked ...
Page 16
... street away from me , at a walking pace , to the place where the court - house was , a big square with shade - trees all round , and very wide streets . There was a fountain in front of the court - house , and a statue to one side . He ...
... street away from me , at a walking pace , to the place where the court - house was , a big square with shade - trees all round , and very wide streets . There was a fountain in front of the court - house , and a statue to one side . He ...
Page 23
... streets people who represent every period of its long history - Indians , Mex- icans , cattle- and sheep - men , modern boosters , and Easterners in what they consider Western garb . Long before the first Pilgrim felt a faint stirring ...
... streets people who represent every period of its long history - Indians , Mex- icans , cattle- and sheep - men , modern boosters , and Easterners in what they consider Western garb . Long before the first Pilgrim felt a faint stirring ...
Page 41
... streets alive with hurrying humanity . Observing a throng pour- ing up from some unknown region be- neath these streets , he breasts the tide and discovers farther down in the earth another concourse with another set of gates and ...
... streets alive with hurrying humanity . Observing a throng pour- ing up from some unknown region be- neath these streets , he breasts the tide and discovers farther down in the earth another concourse with another set of gates and ...
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