Citas

“He was tall, well-knit and stalwart, blond as a Scandinavian, with dark blue eyes which he sometimes said jocularly were the colors of his university.”
Chapter I --the incident at the bankEn inglés
“The ordinary citizen, seeing the Lieutenant finally overtake and accost the hurrying girl, raise his cap, then pour into her outstretched hand the gold he had taken, would have known at once that here was an every-day exercise of natural politeness.”
Chapter I --the incident at the bankEn inglés
“She had never before met a man who blushed, and she could not help regarding him rather as a big boy than a person to be taken seriously.”
Chapter I --the incident at the bankEn inglés
“Picture a face as cleanly cut as that of some severe old Roman Senator; a face as hard as marble, quite as cold, and nearly as white, rescued from the appearance of a death mask by a pair of piercing eyes that glitter like steel.”
Chapter VI --from sea to mountainEn inglés
“She faced the world with seeming unconcern, for she had not the right to mourn, even if she knew he were dead. He had made no claim; had asked for no affection; had written no word to her but what all the world might read.”
Chapter XI --the snowEn inglés

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