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The door , petulantly thrust inwards , struck against some barrels . I remember the
rattling of the bolts on that door , and the tall figure that appeared there , snuffbox
in hand . In that land of white clothes , that precise , ancient , Castilian in black ...
The door , petulantly thrust inwards , struck against some barrels . I remember the
rattling of the bolts on that door , and the tall figure that appeared there , snuffbox
in hand . In that land of white clothes , that precise , ancient , Castilian in black ...
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I was like a confounded rabbit in their hands . One of them had his fist on my
collar and jerked me out upon the hard road . We rolled down the embankment ,
but he was on the top . It seemed an abominable episode , a piece of bad faith on
the ...
I was like a confounded rabbit in their hands . One of them had his fist on my
collar and jerked me out upon the hard road . We rolled down the embankment ,
but he was on the top . It seemed an abominable episode , a piece of bad faith on
the ...
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The runners were seized ; several hands caught at me . It was impossible to
make ... I saw a hand light a torch at the lanthorn , and the crowd of faces , the
muddle of limbs , the horses ' heads , and the quiet trees above , Aickered into
sight .
The runners were seized ; several hands caught at me . It was impossible to
make ... I saw a hand light a torch at the lanthorn , and the crowd of faces , the
muddle of limbs , the horses ' heads , and the quiet trees above , Aickered into
sight .
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... his silk handkerchief came cool across my eyelids . I felt hands fumbling with a
knot at the back of my head . ... The hand left my arm ; there was a pause in the
motion of the procession . I caught a moment's sound of whispering . Then a new
...
... his silk handkerchief came cool across my eyelids . I felt hands fumbling with a
knot at the back of my head . ... The hand left my arm ; there was a pause in the
motion of the procession . I caught a moment's sound of whispering . Then a new
...
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CHAPTER IV T was , I suppose , what I demanded of Fate - to be gently wafted
into the position of a hero of romance , without rough hands at my throat . It is
what we all ask , I suppose ; and we get it sometimes in ten - minute snatches . I
didn't ...
CHAPTER IV T was , I suppose , what I demanded of Fate - to be gently wafted
into the position of a hero of romance , without rough hands at my throat . It is
what we all ask , I suppose ; and we get it sometimes in ten - minute snatches . I
didn't ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Romance: A Novel |
| Authors | Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford |
| Publisher | Doubleday, Page, 1916 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 28 Aug 2009 |
| Length | 428 pages |
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