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Page 6
He had thin red hair , untidy for want of a valet , a shining , delicate , hooked nose
, narrow - lidded blue eyes , and a face with the colour and texture of a white -
heart cherry . He used to spend his days in a hooded chair . My mother managed
...
He had thin red hair , untidy for want of a valet , a shining , delicate , hooked nose
, narrow - lidded blue eyes , and a face with the colour and texture of a white -
heart cherry . He used to spend his days in a hooded chair . My mother managed
...
Page 13
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 began to
think I had missed my time . Down below in the plain , a great way off , a dog was
...
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 began to
think I had missed my time . Down below in the plain , a great way off , a dog was
...
Page 15
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 crackling of the short pine branches
...
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 crackling of the short pine branches
...
Page 21
I made the acquaintance of my heart - a thing that bounded and teapt within my
chest , a little sickeningly . The other details I forget . Jack Rangsley was a tall ,
big - boned , thin man , with something sinister in the lines of his horseman ' s
cloak ...
I made the acquaintance of my heart - a thing that bounded and teapt within my
chest , a little sickeningly . The other details I forget . Jack Rangsley was a tall ,
big - boned , thin man , with something sinister in the lines of his horseman ' s
cloak ...
Page 26
Then he waited , and against the light of the window I could see him mopping his
forehead with the sleeve of his coat ; my heart began to beat softly and insistently
- out of sympathy . Suddenly , from the deep shadow of the cloud above the sea ...
Then he waited , and against the light of the window I could see him mopping his
forehead with the sleeve of his coat ; my heart began to beat softly and insistently
- out of sympathy . Suddenly , from the deep shadow of the cloud above the sea ...
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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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