 of my hair was concealed by the handkerchief bound under my hat; my footsteps echoed loudly under the vault, and I penetrated into the heart of the city. And directly, it seemed to me, I had stepped back three hundred years. I had never seen anything...  Romance: A Novel - Page 359by Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford - 1903 - 428 pagesFull view - About this book
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...the city of Havana symbolizes for Kemp an imaginary, lost past of heroic and venerable masculinity: I penetrated into the heart of the city. And directly,...that seemed to have thrown all its might, all its vigour, and all its enthusiasm into one supreme effort of valour and greed. .. . With what a fury of... | |
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...the city of Havana symbolizes for Kemp an imaginary; lost past of heroic and venerable masculinity: I penetrated into the heart of the city. And directly,...anything so old; this was the abandoned inheritance oi an adventurous race, that seemed to have thrown all its might, all its vigour, and all its enthusiasm... | |
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