Oswald Langdon, Or, Pierre and Paul Lanier: A Romance of 1894-1898Lakeside Press, 1901 - 413 páginas |
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Agnes Randall Alice and Oswald Alice Webster appeared arrests assistant await Bessie boat Bombay cabin Calcutta Claude clew conduct confession craft crazed crime daughter death detective disguise Donald and Esther door doubt dread Esther Randolph evident face father fear felt followed friends gaze girl hand heard Himalaya hope hour impulse infatuation inquiry interest Karl lake learned letter listened London look Mary Dodge ment move murder mysterious never night Northfield old Sarah Oswald feels Oswald Langdon passed past Paul Lanier Paul's Pierre and Paul Pierre Lanier Pierre's police reply river sail says seemed sense sentiments shadowed shore sight Sir Charles Sir Donald Randolph slowly smile soon Southampton staring startled strange stranger suggested sure surprised talk tell Thames Thomas Webster thought tion told trip Uncle Thomas Uncle Tom uncon utterances villains voice waiting watch William Dodge young
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Página 383 - I was ever a fighter, so — one fight more, The best and the last! I would hate that death bandaged my eyes, and forbore, And bade me creep past. No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements...
Página 141 - And some among you held, that if the King Had seen the sight he would have sworn the vow : Not easily, seeing that the King must guard That which he rules, and is but as the hind To whom a space of land is given to plow. Who may not wander from the allotted field Before his work be done...
Página 383 - There they stood, ranged along the hill-sides — met To view the last of me, a living frame For one more picture ! in a sheet of flame I saw them and I knew them all. And yet Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set And blew. " Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came.
Página 99 - Then down I cast me on my face, And first began to weep, For I knew my secret then was one That earth refused to keep: Or land or sea, though he should be Ten thousand fathoms deep.
Página 99 - Two sudden blows with a ragged stick, And one with a heavy stone, One hurried gash with a hasty knife, — And then the deed was done; There was nothing lying at my foot But lifeless flesh and bone!
Página 141 - Before his work be done, but, being done, Let visions of the night or of the day Come as they will; and many a time they come, Until this earth he walks on seems not earth, This light that strikes his eyeball is not light, This air that smites his forehead is not air...
Página 270 - Paul's passion- . ate tempers may involve him in some altercation. Such might result in his death. Then Oswald Langdon's vindication would be remotely doubtful, and Esther's hopes — there always is a break at this point in Sir Donald's musings. To either follow or abandon present tactics is dangerous. It weighs upon Sir Donald's troubled consciousness that on his chosen line of action hangs Esther's hopes, with this contingent menace. An unexpected incident checks Esther's growing pensiveness.
Página 267 - He attempts to yell, buthisvoice weakens into gurglings. The neck relaxes and he sinks back unconscious. Pierre loosens his hold. Bending over, he feels the pulse. Pressing his ear upon Paul's breast, he listens for heartbeats. Such look of blank despair and awful groan ! There is a noise on the stairs. Pierre heeds it not. He gazes at his son, his sight darkens, and bewildering rumblings are heard. Pierre gropes about blindly, stumbling across Paul's unconscious form.
Página 60 - There is a flash of steel, a blow and thrust, followed by the splash of two bodies.