Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page & Company, 1903 - 541 pages |
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Page 15
... I said , " if you wait much longer . Hark to that ! " The approaching horses had turned off the turf on to the hard road ; the steps of first one and then another sounded out down the silent hill . I knew it THE QUARRY AND THE BEACH 15.
... I said , " if you wait much longer . Hark to that ! " The approaching horses had turned off the turf on to the hard road ; the steps of first one and then another sounded out down the silent hill . I knew it THE QUARRY AND THE BEACH 15.
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... 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 made a few paces down the road ; the pitiful voices of the runners crying for help came plainly ...
... 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 made a few paces down the road ; the pitiful voices of the runners crying for help came plainly ...
Page 48
... within five feet of me , people were laughing and kissing . I should have laughed had I not suddenly felt his hand on my throat . I kicked his shins hard , and fell backwards over a chest . He went back a step or 48 ROMANCE.
... within five feet of me , people were laughing and kissing . I should have laughed had I not suddenly felt his hand on my throat . I kicked his shins hard , and fell backwards over a chest . He went back a step or 48 ROMANCE.
Page 49
A Novel Joseph Conrad. over a chest . He went back a step or two , flourished his arm , beat his chest , and turned furiously upon Carlos . " He will get us murdered , " he said . " Do you think we are safe here ? If these people here ...
A Novel Joseph Conrad. over a chest . He went back a step or two , flourished his arm , beat his chest , and turned furiously upon Carlos . " He will get us murdered , " he said . " Do you think we are safe here ? If these people here ...
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... steps , preparing to follow him . He turned his head round towards me , his hand extended , a smile upon his lips . " Juan , " he said , " let us not quarrel . You are very young ; you cannot understand these things ; you cannot weigh ...
... steps , preparing to follow him . He turned his head round towards me , his hand extended , a smile upon his lips . " Juan , " he said , " let us not quarrel . You are very young ; you cannot understand these things ; you cannot weigh ...
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admiral Alguazil answered asked began boat Bow Street runners bowed breath caballero cabin 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 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 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.