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The decent , slow - witted , gently devious type of rustic could not live under her .
The neighbours round declared that the Lady Mary Kemp ' s farm was a hotbed of
disorder . I expect it was , too ; three of our men were hung up at Canterbury on ...
The decent , slow - witted , gently devious type of rustic could not live under her .
The neighbours round declared that the Lady Mary Kemp ' s farm was a hotbed of
disorder . I expect it was , too ; three of our men were hung up at Canterbury on ...
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I had an intense longing to go with him out into the great world that brooded all
round our foothills . 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
...
I had an intense longing to go with him out into the great world that brooded all
round our foothills . 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
...
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... he would have squired his cousin . As it was , he fluttered round the idea of
letting me take his place . Finally he settled Vit ; and I embarked on a long
adventure . CHAPTER TWO BETWEEN moonrise and sunset I was stumbling
through 12 ...
... he would have squired his cousin . As it was , he fluttered round the idea of
letting me take his place . Finally he settled Vit ; and I embarked on a long
adventure . CHAPTER TWO BETWEEN moonrise and sunset I was stumbling
through 12 ...
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Now , boys , get round them . . . . " The great horses formed an irregular half -
circle round us ; men descended clumsily , like sacks of corn . The lanthorn was
seized and flashed upon us ; there was a confused hubbub . I caught my own
name .
Now , boys , get round them . . . . " The great horses formed an irregular half -
circle round us ; men descended clumsily , like sacks of corn . The lanthorn was
seized and flashed upon us ; there was a confused hubbub . I caught my own
name .
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Rangsley slipped from his horse . “ Blindfold ' em , lads , ” he cried , and turned
me sharply round . “ Don ' t struggle , ” he whispered in my ear ; his silk
handkerchief came cool across my eyelids . I felt hands fumbling with a knot at
the back of ...
Rangsley slipped from his horse . “ Blindfold ' em , lads , ” he cried , and turned
me sharply round . “ Don ' t struggle , ” he whispered in my ear ; his silk
handkerchief came cool across my eyelids . I felt hands fumbling with a knot at
the back of ...
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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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