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Page 12
And I was horribly afraid — horribly — of the sort of mysterious potency of the laws that these men represented , and I could think of nothing to do . We stood in a little slanting cutting in the shadow . A watery light before the ...
And I was horribly afraid — horribly — of the sort of mysterious potency of the laws that these men represented , and I could think of nothing to do . We stood in a little slanting cutting in the shadow . A watery light before the ...
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... a glazed show - case full of razors and brushes swung noiselessly forward with an effect of the supernatural . A small opening , just big enough to take a man's body , revealed itself . We passed through it and up a sort of tunnel .
... a glazed show - case full of razors and brushes swung noiselessly forward with an effect of the supernatural . A small opening , just big enough to take a man's body , revealed itself . We passed through it and up a sort of tunnel .
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I imagined him an aristocratic scapegrace , a corsair - it was the Byronic period then — sailing out to marry a sort of shimmering princess with hair like Veronica's , bright golden , and a face like that of a certain keeper's daughter ...
I imagined him an aristocratic scapegrace , a corsair - it was the Byronic period then — sailing out to marry a sort of shimmering princess with hair like Veronica's , bright golden , and a face like that of a certain keeper's daughter ...
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... and to spare for that sort of pike , in the muddy waters , during the first years of the century . But the waters were clearing , and now the good Castro had been dodging the gallows in the Antilles or in Mexico .
... and to spare for that sort of pike , in the muddy waters , during the first years of the century . But the waters were clearing , and now the good Castro had been dodging the gallows in the Antilles or in Mexico .
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I am done with yeh , " he said , with a sort of sinister restraint . He rose to his feet , and , turning his back to me , began to shave , squinting into a broken looking - glass . I had not the slightest inkling of his meaning .
I am done with yeh , " he said , with a sort of sinister restraint . He rose to his feet , and , turning his back to me , began to shave , squinting into a broken looking - glass . I had not the slightest inkling of his meaning .
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| Title | Romance: A Novel |
| Authors | Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford |
| Publisher | Doubleday, Page, 1914 |
| Original from | University of Minnesota |
| Digitized | 1 Jul 2013 |
| Length | 428 pages |
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