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The wretched creatures suffered all the tortures of death before they let go , and , as a rule , they never returned to our parts . CHAPTER THREE THE spirit of the age has changed ...
The wretched creatures suffered all the tortures of death before they let go , and , as a rule , they never returned to our parts . CHAPTER THREE THE spirit of the age has changed ...
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He did not want to be drowned ; neither assuredly did I. But it was not fear so much as a feeling of dreariness and disappointment that had come over me , the sudden feeling that I was going not to adventure , but to death ; that here ...
He did not want to be drowned ; neither assuredly did I. But it was not fear so much as a feeling of dreariness and disappointment that had come over me , the sudden feeling that I was going not to adventure , but to death ; that here ...
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... to look at him lying there without a quiver of a feature , his face stainlessly white , a little bluish in extreme lack of blood , with all the nobility of death upon it , like an alabaster effigy of an old knight in a cathedral .
... to look at him lying there without a quiver of a feature , his face stainlessly white , a little bluish in extreme lack of blood , with all the nobility of death upon it , like an alabaster effigy of an old knight in a cathedral .
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Death hovered over that table and also , as it were , the breath of past ages . The multitude of lights , the polished floor of costly wood , the bare whiteness of walls wainscotted with marble , the vastness of the room , the imposing ...
Death hovered over that table and also , as it were , the breath of past ages . The multitude of lights , the polished floor of costly wood , the bare whiteness of walls wainscotted with marble , the vastness of the room , the imposing ...
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The retirement of her father from the world after her mother's death had made a great solitude round his declining years . Yes , that sorrow , and the base intrigues of that man — a fugitive , a hanger - on of her mother's family ...
The retirement of her father from the world after her mother's death had made a great solitude round his declining years . Yes , that sorrow , and the base intrigues of that man — a fugitive , a hanger - on of her mother's family ...
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| Title | Romance Volume 7 of Complete Works, Ford Madox Ford |
| Authors | Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford |
| Publisher | Doubleday, Page, 1903 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 28 Aug 2009 |
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