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He ' ll swing , I ' ll lay you a - - " From far above us came a shout , then a confused
noise of voices . The moon began to get up ; above the ... In the King ' s name , ”
Lillywhite shouted , “ get off that nag and lend a hand ! We ' ve a prisoner .
He ' ll swing , I ' ll lay you a - - " From far above us came a shout , then a confused
noise of voices . The moon began to get up ; above the ... In the King ' s name , ”
Lillywhite shouted , “ get off that nag and lend a hand ! We ' ve a prisoner .
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... there was a confused hubbub . I caught my own name . “ Yes , I ' m Kemp . . .
John Kemp , ” I called . “ I ' m true blue . ” “ Blue be hanged ! ” a voice shouted
back . “ What be you a - doing with runners ? ” The riot went on — forty or fifty
voices .
... there was a confused hubbub . I caught my own name . “ Yes , I ' m Kemp . . .
John Kemp , ” I called . “ I ' m true blue . ” “ Blue be hanged ! ” a voice shouted
back . “ What be you a - doing with runners ? ” The riot went on — forty or fifty
voices .
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There ' s a sheer drop of a hundred feet . We ' ll tie your legs and hang you by
your fingers . If you hang long enough , you ' ll have time to say your prayers .
Look alive , lads ! ” The voice of one of the runners began to shout , “ You ' ll
swing for ...
There ' s a sheer drop of a hundred feet . We ' ll tie your legs and hang you by
your fingers . If you hang long enough , you ' ll have time to say your prayers .
Look alive , lads ! ” The voice of one of the runners began to shout , “ You ' ll
swing for ...
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The blue gleam was much larger - it flared smokily up towards the sky . I made
out ghastly parallelograms of a ship ' s sails high above us , and at last many
faces peering unseeingly over the rail in our direction . We all shouted together .
The blue gleam was much larger - it flared smokily up towards the sky . I made
out ghastly parallelograms of a ship ' s sails high above us , and at last many
faces peering unseeingly over the rail in our direction . We all shouted together .
Page 73
There was a blazing sun , and the crowd pushed and shouted and craned its
thousands of heads every time one heard the cry of “ Here they come , ” for an
hour or so . There was a very limpid sky , a very limpid sea , a scattering of
shipping ...
There was a blazing sun , and the crowd pushed and shouted and craned its
thousands of heads every time one heard the cry of “ Here they come , ” for an
hour or so . There was a very limpid sky , a very limpid sea , a scattering of
shipping ...
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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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