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Well , that is my yesterday of romance , for the many things that have passed
between those times and now have become dim or have gone out of my mind .
And my day before yesterday was the day on which I , at twenty - two , stood
looking at ...
Well , that is my yesterday of romance , for the many things that have passed
between those times and now have become dim or have gone out of my mind .
And my day before yesterday was the day on which I , at twenty - two , stood
looking at ...
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Ralph ' s land was just on the other side of the Street , and the shepherds on the
downs used to see of nights a dead - and - gone Rooksby , Sir Peter that was ,
ride upon it past the quarry with his head under his arm . I don ' t think I believed
in ...
Ralph ' s land was just on the other side of the Street , and the shepherds on the
downs used to see of nights a dead - and - gone Rooksby , Sir Peter that was ,
ride upon it past the quarry with his head under his arm . I don ' t think I believed
in ...
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... Rooksby ' s Spanish kinsman , had come and gone , and I envied him his
going , with his air of mystery , to some far - off lawless adventures — perhaps
over there in Spain , where there were war and rebellion . Shortly afterwards
Rooksby ...
... Rooksby ' s Spanish kinsman , had come and gone , and I envied him his
going , with his air of mystery , to some far - off lawless adventures — perhaps
over there in Spain , where there were war and rebellion . Shortly afterwards
Rooksby ...
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That } had gone to Russia at the tail of the Grande Armée , or could not help
believing . He had been most likely : the grand army of sutlers and camp -
followers . E could talk convincingly of the cold , and of the snows ar his escape .
And from ...
That } had gone to Russia at the tail of the Grande Armée , or could not help
believing . He had been most likely : the grand army of sutlers and camp -
followers . E could talk convincingly of the cold , and of the snows ar his escape .
And from ...
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He looked at me and smiled . It stirred unknown depths of emotion in me . I would
have gone with him , then , had he asked me . “ One day , ” he repeated , with an
extraordinary cadence of tone . His hand was grasping mine ; it thrilled me like ...
He looked at me and smiled . It stirred unknown depths of emotion in me . I would
have gone with him , then , had he asked me . “ One day , ” he repeated , with an
extraordinary cadence of tone . His hand was grasping mine ; it thrilled me like ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Romance: A Novel Volume 13 of The Concord edition of the works of Joseph Conrad |
| Authors | Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford |
| Publisher | Doubleday, Page, 1923 |
| Original from | Princeton University |
| Digitized | 5 Dec 2008 |
| ISBN | 074262658X, 9780742626584 |
| Length | 541 pages |
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