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... half servant , who said he had served in Napoleon ' s Spanish contingent , and
had a way of striking his breast with a wooden hand ( his arm had suffered in a
cavalry charge ) , and exclaiming , “ I , Tomas Castro ! . . . " He was an Andalusian
...
... half servant , who said he had served in Napoleon ' s Spanish contingent , and
had a way of striking his breast with a wooden hand ( his arm had suffered in a
cavalry charge ) , and exclaiming , “ I , Tomas Castro ! . . . " He was an Andalusian
...
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his Tomas Castro . I had an intense longing to go with him out into the great world
that brooded all round our foot - hills . You are to remember that I knew nothing
whatever of that great world . I had never been further away from our farm than ...
his Tomas Castro . I had an intense longing to go with him out into the great world
that brooded all round our foot - hills . You are to remember that I knew nothing
whatever of that great world . I had never been further away from our farm than ...
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... went on worrying him for Carlos ' address . " Carlos is the only soul I know
outside five miles from here . Besides , he ' s friends in the Indies . That ' s where I
want to go , and he could give me a cast . You remember what Tomas Castro
said .
... went on worrying him for Carlos ' address . " Carlos is the only soul I know
outside five miles from here . Besides , he ' s friends in the Indies . That ' s where I
want to go , and he could give me a cast . You remember what Tomas Castro
said .
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Every now and then Carlos Riego coughed lamentably , but Tomas Castro rode
in gloomy silence . There was a light here and there in a window , but not a soul
stirring abroad . On the blind of an inn the shadow of a bearded man held the ...
Every now and then Carlos Riego coughed lamentably , but Tomas Castro rode
in gloomy silence . There was a light here and there in a window , but not a soul
stirring abroad . On the blind of an inn the shadow of a bearded man held the ...
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He himself had 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 ...
He himself had 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 ...
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Page 40 - Here's the mahn ye were speerin' after. Here's Macdonald." It was the voice of Barnes, and the voice of the every day. I discovered that I had been tremendously upset. The pulses in my temples were throbbing, and I wanted to shut my eyes — to sleep! I was tired; Romance had departed. Barnes and the Macdonald he had found for me represented all the laborious insects of the world; all the ants who are forever hauling immensely heavy and immensely unimportant burdens up weary hillocks, down steep...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Romance: A Novel |
| Authors | Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford |
| Publisher | Doubleday, Page, 1922 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 3 Jan 2008 |
| Length | 428 pages |
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