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Page 70
Then he frowned , “ I ' ve been misled , " he muttered , with a dark glance at
Carlos . And recovering his jocular serenity , " Ye mean it ? " he asked ; " it ' s not
British heroics ? " The old Don stirred again and sighed . The young girl glided
swiftly ...
Then he frowned , “ I ' ve been misled , " he muttered , with a dark glance at
Carlos . And recovering his jocular serenity , " Ye mean it ? " he asked ; " it ' s not
British heroics ? " The old Don stirred again and sighed . The young girl glided
swiftly ...
Page 73
I felt a sort of uneasiness ; I could by no means understand the connection
between the old Don and what had gone before , and I did not , in a purely
conventional sense , know how long I ought to stop . The sky through the barred
windows ...
I felt a sort of uneasiness ; I could by no means understand the connection
between the old Don and what had gone before , and I did not , in a purely
conventional sense , know how long I ought to stop . The sky through the barred
windows ...
Page 80
The land might have been four or five miles away — I had no means of knowing
exactly . It looked like a high black cloud , and purply - gray mists here and there
80 ROMANCE.
The land might have been four or five miles away — I had no means of knowing
exactly . It looked like a high black cloud , and purply - gray mists here and there
80 ROMANCE.
Page 81
I was done up when I got on the poop . A yell came from forward , " Hard aport . "
Then the same voice addressed itself to abusing the Spanish ship very close to
us now . " What do you mean by coming - to right across my bows like this ...
I was done up when I got on the poop . A yell came from forward , " Hard aport . "
Then the same voice addressed itself to abusing the Spanish ship very close to
us now . " What do you mean by coming - to right across my bows like this ...
Page 90
I could not pause to think what he might mean . The child ' s shrieks resounding
louder and louder , I ran below . There were a couple of men in the cabin with the
women . Mrs . Cowper was lying back upon a sofa , her face very white and ...
I could not pause to think what he might mean . The child ' s shrieks resounding
louder and louder , I ran below . There were a couple of men in the cabin with the
women . Mrs . Cowper was lying back upon a sofa , her face very white and ...
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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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