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I remember the chilly smell of the typical West Indian store , the indescribable
smell of damp gloom , of locos , of pimento , of olive oil , of new sugar , of new
rum ; the glassy double sheen of Ramon ' s great spectacles , the piercing eyes in
the ...
I remember the chilly smell of the typical West Indian store , the indescribable
smell of damp gloom , of locos , of pimento , of olive oil , of new sugar , of new
rum ; the glassy double sheen of Ramon ' s great spectacles , the piercing eyes in
the ...
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I remember her face on that day ; her eyes were gray — the gray of black , not of
blue . For a moment they looked me straight in the face , reflectively ,
unconcerned , and then travelled to the spectacles of old Ramon . This glance -
remember I ...
I remember her face on that day ; her eyes were gray — the gray of black , not of
blue . For a moment they looked me straight in the face , reflectively ,
unconcerned , and then travelled to the spectacles of old Ramon . This glance -
remember I ...
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You are to remember that I knew nothing whatever of V that great world . I had
never been further away from our farm than just to Canterbury school , to Hythe
market , to Romney market . Our farm nestled down under the steep , brown
downs ...
You are to remember that I knew nothing whatever of V that great world . I had
never been further away from our farm than just to Canterbury school , to Hythe
market , to Romney market . Our farm nestled down under the steep , brown
downs ...
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You remember what Tomas Castro said . . . . " Rooksby came to a sudden halt ,
and began furiously to switch his corded legs . " Curse Carlos , and his Castro ,
too . They ' ll have me in jail betwixt them . They ' re both in my red barn , if you ...
You remember what Tomas Castro said . . . . " Rooksby came to a sudden halt ,
and began furiously to switch his corded legs . " Curse Carlos , and his Castro ,
too . They ' ll have me in jail betwixt them . They ' re both in my red barn , if you ...
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CHAPTER THREE THE spirit of the age has changed ; everything has changed
so utterly that one can hardly believe in the existence of one ' s earlier self . But I
can still remember how , at that moment . I made the acquaintance of my heart - a
...
CHAPTER THREE THE spirit of the age has changed ; everything has changed
so utterly that one can hardly believe in the existence of one ' s earlier self . But I
can still remember how , at that moment . I made the acquaintance of my heart - a
...
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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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