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Page 3
Having imperiously thrust the door of the inner room open , he remained
immovable , with no intention of entering , and called in a harsh , aged voice : “
Seņor Ramon ! Seņor Ramon ! ” and then twice : “ Seraphina - Seraphina ! ”
turning his ...
Having imperiously thrust the door of the inner room open , he remained
immovable , with no intention of entering , and called in a harsh , aged voice : “
Seņor Ramon ! Seņor Ramon ! ” and then twice : “ Seraphina - Seraphina ! ”
turning his ...
Page 4
I remained alone . The blue bales and the white , and the great red oil jars
loomed in the dim light filtering through the jalousies out of the blinding sunlight
of Jamaica . A moment after , the door opened once more and a young man
came out to ...
I remained alone . The blue bales and the white , and the great red oil jars
loomed in the dim light filtering through the jalousies out of the blinding sunlight
of Jamaica . A moment after , the door opened once more and a young man
came out to ...
Page 5
He had been an inventor , a projector , and my mother had been a poor beauty ,
brought up on the farm we still lived on the last rag of land that had remained to
her father . Then she had married a good man in his way ; a good enough catch ...
He had been an inventor , a projector , and my mother had been a poor beauty ,
brought up on the farm we still lived on the last rag of land that had remained to
her father . Then she had married a good man in his way ; a good enough catch ...
Page 8
Ralph remained lost in a kind of gloomy abstraction , while I went on worrying
him for Carlos ' address . “ Carlos is the only soul I know outside five miles from
here . Besides , he ' s friends in the Indies . That ' s where I want to go and he
could ...
Ralph remained lost in a kind of gloomy abstraction , while I went on worrying
him for Carlos ' address . “ Carlos is the only soul I know outside five miles from
here . Besides , he ' s friends in the Indies . That ' s where I want to go and he
could ...
Page 47
Jamaica was in those days and remained for many years afterin the throes of a
question . The question was , of course , that of the abolition of slavery . The
planters as a rule were immensely rich and overbearing . They said , “ If the
Home ...
Jamaica was in those days and remained for many years afterin the throes of a
question . The question was , of course , that of the abolition of slavery . The
planters as a rule were immensely rich and overbearing . They said , “ If the
Home ...
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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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