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Page 7
... waiting for the whistle to blow from the Street at dusk . I , born with my century , was familiar with these things ; but my mother forbade my meddling with them . I expect she knew enough herself - all the resident gentry did .
... waiting for the whistle to blow from the Street at dusk . I , born with my century , was familiar with these things ; but my mother forbade my meddling with them . I expect she knew enough herself - all the resident gentry did .
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We stood waiting silently for an eternity , as one waits for a hare to break covert before the beaters . From down the long hill came a small sound of horses ' hoofs — a sound like the beating of the heart , intermittent - a muffled ...
We stood waiting silently for an eternity , as one waits for a hare to break covert before the beaters . From down the long hill came a small sound of horses ' hoofs — a sound like the beating of the heart , intermittent - a muffled ...
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Rangsley was waiting to conduct us into the town , where we should find a man to take us three fugitives out to the expected ship . We rode clattering aggressively through the silence of the long , narrow main street .
Rangsley was waiting to conduct us into the town , where we should find a man to take us three fugitives out to the expected ship . We rode clattering aggressively through the silence of the long , narrow main street .
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Shrieks came from the interior of the carriage , and from the waiting negresses . I saw three men were falling upon a little thing like a damaged cat . I couldn't stand that , come what might of it . I ran hastily up the steps , hoping ...
Shrieks came from the interior of the carriage , and from the waiting negresses . I saw three men were falling upon a little thing like a damaged cat . I couldn't stand that , come what might of it . I ran hastily up the steps , hoping ...
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Every movement of hers affected me with an intimate joy ; it was as if I had been waiting to see just that carriage of the neck , just that proud glance from the eyes , just that droop of eyelashes upon the cheeks , for years and years ...
Every movement of hers affected me with an intimate joy ; it was as if I had been waiting to see just that carriage of the neck , just that proud glance from the eyes , just that droop of eyelashes upon the cheeks , for years and years ...
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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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