Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page & Company, 1903 - 541 pages |
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... EYES A PERSONAL RECORD ' TWIXT LAND AND SEA CHANCE WITHIN THE TIDES VICTORY THE SHADOW - LINE THE ARROW OF GOLD THE RESCUE NOTES ON LIFE AND LETTERS THE ROVER THE SHORTER TALES OF JOSEPH CONRAD TALES OF HEARSAY LAUGHING ANNE AND ONE DAY ...
... EYES A PERSONAL RECORD ' TWIXT LAND AND SEA CHANCE WITHIN THE TIDES VICTORY THE SHADOW - LINE THE ARROW OF GOLD THE RESCUE NOTES ON LIFE AND LETTERS THE ROVER THE SHORTER TALES OF JOSEPH CONRAD TALES OF HEARSAY LAUGHING ANNE AND ONE DAY ...
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... eyes aglow in an absolute pallor of face . That was Carlos Riego . Well , that is my yesterday of romance , for the many things that have passed between those times and now have become dim or have gone out of my mind . And my day before ...
... eyes aglow in an absolute pallor of face . That was Carlos Riego . Well , that is my yesterday of romance , for the many things that have passed between those times and now have become dim or have gone out of my mind . And my day before ...
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... eyes , and a face with the colour and texture of a white - heart cherry . He used to spend his days in a hooded chair . My mother managed every- thing , leading an out - of - door life which gave her face the colour of a wrinkled pippin ...
... eyes , and a face with the colour and texture of a white - heart cherry . He used to spend his days in a hooded chair . My mother managed every- thing , leading an out - of - door life which gave her face the colour of a wrinkled pippin ...
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... eyes . The thing seemed incredible to me . Here was an adventure , and I was shocked to see that Rooksby was in a pitiable state about it . " But , Ralph , " I said , “ I would help Carlos . " " Oh , you , " he said fretfully . " You ...
... eyes . The thing seemed incredible to me . Here was an adventure , and I was shocked to see that Rooksby was in a pitiable state about it . " But , Ralph , " I said , “ I would help Carlos . " " Oh , you , " he said fretfully . " You ...
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... eyes . " Come along , " Rangsley said , leading me gently enough to the road , which was five steps behind . " It's all a joke , " he snarled . " A pretty bad one for those catchpolls . Hear ' em groan . The drop's not two feet . " We ...
... eyes . " Come along , " Rangsley said , leading me gently enough to the road , which was five steps behind . " It's all a joke , " he snarled . " A pretty bad one for those catchpolls . Hear ' em groan . The drop's not two feet . " We ...
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admiral Alguazil answered asked began boat Bow Street runners bowed breath caballero called Carlos Casa Riego cloak cried Cuba dark dead death deck Don Balthasar Don Carlos door ears El Rubio English eyes face Father Antonio fear feet felt glance gone hair hand hang Havana head heard heart honour immense Inglez Jamaica John Kemp Juan Juez Kemp Kingston knew lanthorn laughed light Lion lips looked Lord Stowell Lugareños Macdonald Manuel matter murder murmured never Nichols night O'Brien once pirates Ramon Rangsley ravine Rio Medio romance Rooksby round sail saturnine schooner Sebright seemed seen Señor Señorita Seraphina shadow ship shoulders shouted side sight silence smile sort soul sound Spanish stood suddenly talk tell thing thought throat Tomas Castro turned uncle voice walked wall whispered Williams woman words
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Page 157 - Carlos' room, with many cigarettes stuck behind his ears and in the band of his hat. When these were gone he grubbed for more in the depths of his clothing, somewhere near his skin. Puffs of smoke issued from his pursed lips; and the desolation of his pose, the sorrow of his round, wrinkled face, was so great that it seemed were he to cease smoking, he would die of grief. The general effect of the place was of vitality exhausted, of a body calcined, of romance turned into stone. The still air, the...
Page 51 - 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 for ever hauling immensely heavy and immensely unimportant burdens up weary hillocks, down steep places, getting nowhere and doing nothing.
Page 153 - ... lonely echoes, and strips of grass outlined in parallelograms the flagstones of the roadway. The Casa Riego raised its buttressed and loop-holed bulk near the shore, resembling a defensive outwork; on my other hand the shallow bay, vast, placid, and shining, extended itself behind the strip of coast like an enormous lagoon. The fronds of palmclusters dotted the beach over the glassy shimmer of the far distance. The dark and wooded slopes of the hills closed the view inland on every side.
Page 532 - If there were to be any possibility of saving my life, I had to tell what I had been through — and to tell it vividly — I had to narrate the story of my life; and my whole life came into my mind.