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Against the glimmer of dead light I thought I caught the outlines of a man ' s hat
down among the tossing lines of the bracken . I whispered loudly : “ Carlos !
Carlos ! ” There was a moment of hoarse whispering ; a sudden gruff sound . A
shaft of ...
Against the glimmer of dead light I thought I caught the outlines of a man ' s hat
down among the tossing lines of the bracken . I whispered loudly : “ Carlos !
Carlos ! ” There was a moment of hoarse whispering ; a sudden gruff sound . A
shaft of ...
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... and an eventuali so extravagant , as to make the whole thing ridiculoi And yet I
remembered how unhappy I felt , how i explicably unhappy . Presently the reason
was ma Vclear . I was homesick . I gave no further thought the second mate .
... and an eventuali so extravagant , as to make the whole thing ridiculoi And yet I
remembered how unhappy I felt , how i explicably unhappy . Presently the reason
was ma Vclear . I was homesick . I gave no further thought the second mate .
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entering , and thought of the home I had left so eagerly . After all , I was no more
than a boy , and even younger in mind than in body . Queer - looking boats
crawled between the shores like tiny water beetles . One headed out towards us ,
then ...
entering , and thought of the home I had left so eagerly . After all , I was no more
than a boy , and even younger in mind than in body . Queer - looking boats
crawled between the shores like tiny water beetles . One headed out towards us ,
then ...
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I thought the voice was Ramon ' s , but I could not turn , and the people in the
carriage answered in French , I thought . A man was shouting “ Cool Drinks ” on
the other side of them . Finally , there was a roar , an irresistible swaying , a rattle
of ...
I thought the voice was Ramon ' s , but I could not turn , and the people in the
carriage answered in French , I thought . A man was shouting “ Cool Drinks ” on
the other side of them . Finally , there was a roar , an irresistible swaying , a rattle
of ...
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... thought that there wasn ' t very much to be exultant over . We had not really
captured the pirates ; they had been handed over to the admiral by the Havana
authorities — as an international courtesy I suppose , or else because they were
...
... thought that there wasn ' t very much to be exultant over . We had not really
captured the pirates ; they had been handed over to the admiral by the Havana
authorities — as an international courtesy I suppose , or else because they were
...
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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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