RomanceOne of three novels on which Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford collaborated, Romance tells the story of John Kemp, who dreams of adventure but has never set foot beyond the boundary of the family farm. Kemp gets more than he bargained for when adventure comes knocking in the form of two Spanish travelers who need help. |
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... 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 , just beside the Roman road to Canterbury ; Stone Street - the Street - we ...
... 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 , just beside the Roman road to Canterbury ; Stone Street - the Street - we ...
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... never loosed his hold of my collar . At the steep of the hill the men and horses came into sight against the white sky , a confused crowd of ominous things . " " " Don't you Turn that lanthorn off'n me , " the horseman said . see you ...
... never loosed his hold of my collar . At the steep of the hill the men and horses came into sight against the white sky , a confused crowd of ominous things . " " " Don't you Turn that lanthorn off'n me , " the horseman said . see you ...
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... Cliff or any other hundred - foot drop . The wretched creatures suffered all the tortures of death before they let go , and , as a rule , they never returned to our parts . T CHAPTER III HE spirit of the age has changed 16 ROMANCE.
... Cliff or any other hundred - foot drop . The wretched creatures suffered all the tortures of death before they let go , and , as a rule , they never returned to our parts . T CHAPTER III HE spirit of the age has changed 16 ROMANCE.
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... never before heard so many women's voices at the same time . Afterwards , when I stood on the deck , they began laughing at old Rangsley , who held forth in a thunderous voice , punctuated by hiccoughs : " They carried I aboord - a ...
... never before heard so many women's voices at the same time . Afterwards , when I stood on the deck , they began laughing at old Rangsley , who held forth in a thunderous voice , punctuated by hiccoughs : " They carried I aboord - a ...
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... never been in Cuba or seen his uncle ; but he had , as I have indicated , ruined himself in one way or another in Spain , and it had come as a God - send to him when his uncle had sent Tomas Castro to bring him to Cuba , to the town of ...
... never been in Cuba or seen his uncle ; but he had , as I have indicated , ruined himself in one way or another in Spain , and it had come as a God - send to him when his uncle had sent Tomas Castro to bring him to Cuba , to the town of ...
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