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Page 6
It made Veronica laugh , and even drew a grim smile from my mother ; but it gave
Ralph bad moments . How he came into these parts was a little of a mystery .
When Ralph was displeased with this Spanish connection he used to swear that
...
It made Veronica laugh , and even drew a grim smile from my mother ; but it gave
Ralph bad moments . How he came into these parts was a little of a mystery .
When Ralph was displeased with this Spanish connection he used to swear that
...
Page 25
To me his words and his smile seemed to imply a bitter irony ; but they were said
very earnestly . Castro had hauled the helpless form of old Rangsley forward . I
caught him muttering savagely : " I could kill that old man ! " He did not want to be
...
To me his words and his smile seemed to imply a bitter irony ; but they were said
very earnestly . Castro had hauled the helpless form of old Rangsley forward . I
caught him muttering savagely : " I could kill that old man ! " He did not want to be
...
Page 29
... career , enhanced , also , the mystery . I asked him one day , " But why do you
go to Jamaica at all if you are bound for Cuba ? ” He looked at me , smiling a little
mournfully . PART FIRST 29.
... career , enhanced , also , the mystery . I asked him one day , " But why do you
go to Jamaica at all if you are bound for Cuba ? ” He looked at me , smiling a little
mournfully . PART FIRST 29.
Page 30
He looked at me , smiling a little mournfully . " Ah , Juan mio , " he said , " Spain is
not like your England , unchanging and stable . The party who reign to - day do
not love me , and they are masters in Cuba as in Spain . But in his province my ...
He looked at me , smiling a little mournfully . " Ah , Juan mio , " he said , " Spain is
not like your England , unchanging and stable . The party who reign to - day do
not love me , and they are masters in Cuba as in Spain . But in his province my ...
Page 31
Carlos answered me with one of his nervous and angry smiles . " Ah , Juan mine ,
do not ask too many questions ! I wish you could come with me all the way , but I
cannot tell you all I know . I do not even myself know all . It seems that the man ...
Carlos answered me with one of his nervous and angry smiles . " Ah , Juan mine ,
do not ask too many questions ! I wish you could come with me all the way , but I
cannot tell you all I know . I do not even myself know all . It seems that the man ...
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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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