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Page 6
When Ralph made the grand tour , he had made the acquaintance of his Spanish
relations ; he used to talk about them , the Riegos , and Veronica used to talk of
what he said of them until they came to stand for Romance , the romance of the ...
When Ralph made the grand tour , he had made the acquaintance of his Spanish
relations ; he used to talk about them , the Riegos , and Veronica used to talk of
what he said of them until they came to stand for Romance , the romance of the ...
Page 8
Hey , John — John Kemp ; come down , I say ! " I started away from the glass as if
I had been taken in an act of folly . Rooksby was ficking his leg with his switch in
the doorway , at the bottom of the narrow flight of stairs . He wanted to talk to me ...
Hey , John — John Kemp ; come down , I say ! " I started away from the glass as if
I had been taken in an act of folly . Rooksby was ficking his leg with his switch in
the doorway , at the bottom of the narrow flight of stairs . He wanted to talk to me ...
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We ' ll talk as we go . " Someone helped me into a saddle ; my legs trembled in
the stirrups as if I had ridden a thousand miles on end already . I imagine I must
have fallen into a stupor ; for I have only a vague impression of somebody ' s ...
We ' ll talk as we go . " Someone helped me into a saddle ; my legs trembled in
the stirrups as if I had ridden a thousand miles on end already . I imagine I must
have fallen into a stupor ; for I have only a vague impression of somebody ' s ...
Page 25
There was nothing to be done but talk and wait . " No ; England , " he answered in
a tone full of meaning ' things in England — people there . One person at least . "
To me his words and his smile seemed to imply a bitter irony ; but they were ...
There was nothing to be done but talk and wait . " No ; England , " he answered in
a tone full of meaning ' things in England — people there . One person at least . "
To me his words and his smile seemed to imply a bitter irony ; but they were ...
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The other passengers he discountenanced by a certain coldness of manner that
made me ashamed of talking to them . I respected him so ; he was so wonderful
to me then . Castro I detested ; but I accepted their relationship without in the
least ...
The other passengers he discountenanced by a certain coldness of manner that
made me ashamed of talking to them . I respected him so ; he was so wonderful
to me then . Castro I detested ; but I accepted their relationship without in the
least ...
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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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