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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... eyes in the mahogany face , while the tap , tap , tap of a cane on the flags went on behind the inner door ; the click of the latch ; the stream of light . The door , petulantly thrust inwards , struck against some barrels . I remember ...
... eyes in the mahogany face , while the tap , tap , tap of a cane on the flags went on behind the inner door ; the click of the latch ; the stream of light . The door , petulantly thrust inwards , struck against some barrels . I remember ...
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... eyes were gray - the gray of black , not of blue . For a moment they looked me straight in the face , reflectively , unconcerned , and then traveled to the spectacles of old Ramon . This glance - remember I was young on that day - had ...
... eyes were gray - the gray of black , not of blue . For a moment they looked me straight in the face , reflectively , unconcerned , and then traveled to the spectacles of old Ramon . This glance - remember I was young on that day - had ...
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... eyes — a good mate for Rooksby . Rooksby had foreign relations , too . The uncle from whom he inherited the Priory had married a Riego , a Cas- tilian , during the Peninsular war . He had been a prisoner at the time he had died in Spain ...
... eyes — a good mate for Rooksby . Rooksby had foreign relations , too . The uncle from whom he inherited the Priory had married a Riego , a Cas- tilian , during the Peninsular war . He had been a prisoner at the time he had died in Spain ...
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... eyes . A man sprang at me and thrust some- thing cold and knobby into my neckcloth . The light continued to blaze into my eyes ; it moved upwards and shone on a red waistcoat dashed with gilt buttons . I was being arrested . " In the ...
... eyes . A man sprang at me and thrust some- thing cold and knobby into my neckcloth . The light continued to blaze into my eyes ; it moved upwards and shone on a red waistcoat dashed with gilt buttons . I was being arrested . " In the ...
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... eyes in order to take their suspicions off me . He had made a pretense to murder me with the same idea . But he didn't believe they were taken in . " There'll be warrants out before morning , if they aint too shaken . But what were you ...
... eyes in order to take their suspicions off me . He had made a pretense to murder me with the same idea . But he didn't believe they were taken in . " There'll be warrants out before morning , if they aint too shaken . But what were you ...
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