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" I would like best to see you marry my cousin. Once before a woman of our race had married an Englishman. She had been happy. English things last forever—English peace, English power, English fidelity. It is a country of much serenity, of order, "
Romance: A Novel - Page 110
by Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford - 1903 - 428 pages
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Romance : a Novel: Complete Works, V. 7

Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford - 1924 - 556 pages
...you want me to take, Carlos?" I asked one day. Propped up with pillows, he looked at me with the big eyes of his emaciation. "I would like best to see you marry my cousin. One* before a woman of our race had married an Englishman. She had been happy. English things last...
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Imperial Desire: Dissident Sexualities and Colonial Literature

Philip Holden, Richard R. Ruppel - Colonies in literature - 2003 - 364 pages
...ultimate home for lovers, the place where young romance can come to fruition: in Carlos's words to Kemp, “I would like best to see you marry my cousin. Once...fidelity. It is a country of much serenity, of order, of stable affection.. ?“ (iso, ellipses in original). Yet there are two key features that differentiate...
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Modernism, Male Friendship, and the First World War

Sarah Cole - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 324 pages
...ultimate home for lovers, the place where young romance can come to fruition. In Carlos' words to Kemp, “‘I would like best to see you marry my cousin....Englishman. She had been happy. English things last forever — English peace, English power, English fidelity. It is a country of much serenity, of order,...
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