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Page 11
A woodpigeon rose with a sudden crash of sound , flapping away against the
branches . My pulse was dancing with delight - my heart , too . It was like a game
of hide - and - seek , and yet it was life at last . Everything grew silent again , and I
...
A woodpigeon rose with a sudden crash of sound , flapping away against the
branches . My pulse was dancing with delight - my heart , too . It was like a game
of hide - and - seek , and yet it was life at last . Everything grew silent again , and I
...
Page 12
From down the long hill came a small sound of horses ' hoofs — a sound like the
beating of the heart , intermittent - a muffled thud on turf , and a faint clink of iron .
It seemed to die away unheard by the runner beside me . Presently there was a ...
From down the long hill came a small sound of horses ' hoofs — a sound like the
beating of the heart , intermittent - a muffled thud on turf , and a faint clink of iron .
It seemed to die away unheard by the runner beside me . Presently there was a ...
Page 15
The voice interrupted sharply , “ No names , now . I don ' t want hanging . " 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 voice cried , “ Strip the runners to
the ...
The voice interrupted sharply , “ No names , now . I don ' t want hanging . " 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 voice cried , “ Strip the runners to
the ...
Page 16
There was a grunt and the sound of a fall ; then a precisely similar sequence of
sounds . “ That ' ll teach ' em , ” Rangsley said ferociously . “ Come along — they '
ve only rolled down a bank . They weren ' t over the quarry . It ' s all right , I swear
...
There was a grunt and the sound of a fall ; then a precisely similar sequence of
sounds . “ That ' ll teach ' em , ” Rangsley said ferociously . “ Come along — they '
ve only rolled down a bank . They weren ' t over the quarry . It ' s all right , I swear
...
Page 19
The sound of the others ' horses had long died away down the hill when he
began to tell me what he ought to have done . “ I knew it at once after I ' d let you
go . I ought to have kept you out of it . You came near being murdered . And to
think of ...
The sound of the others ' horses had long died away down the hill when he
began to tell me what he ought to have done . “ I knew it at once after I ' d let you
go . I ought to have kept you out of it . You came near being murdered . And to
think of ...
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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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