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Page 4
Ramon hurried with a stiffness of immense respect towards the ancient grandee .
The door swung to . I remained alone . The blue bales and the white , and the
great red oil jars loomed in the dim light filtering through the jalousies out of the ...
Ramon hurried with a stiffness of immense respect towards the ancient grandee .
The door swung to . I remained alone . The blue bales and the white , and the
great red oil jars loomed in the dim light filtering through the jalousies out of the ...
Page 22
He had been one of the most redoubtable of the family , a man of immense
strength and cunning , but a confirmed habit of consuming a pint and a half of gin
a night had made him disinclined for the more arduous tasks of the trade . He
limited ...
He had been one of the most redoubtable of the family , a man of immense
strength and cunning , but a confirmed habit of consuming a pint and a half of gin
a night had made him disinclined for the more arduous tasks of the trade . He
limited ...
Page 23
He was for me nearly as romantic a figure as Carlos himself , but for his
forbidding darkness , and he was a person of immense power . The silent Sittings
of lights that I had just seen , the answering signals from the luggers far out to sea
, the ...
He was for me nearly as romantic a figure as Carlos himself , but for his
forbidding darkness , and he was a person of immense power . The silent Sittings
of lights that I had just seen , the answering signals from the luggers far out to sea
, the ...
Page 50
At any rate , everyone , from the proudest planters to the editor of the Buckatoro
Journal next door , was glad of a chat with Ramon , whose knowledge of an
immense variety of things was as deep as a drawn well — and as placid . I used
to buy ...
At any rate , everyone , from the proudest planters to the editor of the Buckatoro
Journal next door , was glad of a chat with Ramon , whose knowledge of an
immense variety of things was as deep as a drawn well — and as placid . I used
to buy ...
Page 51
Ramon went on with an air of immense superiority , " And all the while we
merchants are losing thousands . " His dark eyes searched my face , and it came
disagreeably into my head that he was playing some part ; that his talk was
delusive ...
Ramon went on with an air of immense superiority , " And all the while we
merchants are losing thousands . " His dark eyes searched my face , and it came
disagreeably into my head that he was playing some part ; that his talk was
delusive ...
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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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