RomanceOne of three novels on which Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford collaborated, Romance tells the story of John Kemp, who dreams of adventure but has never set foot beyond the boundary of the family farm. Kemp gets more than he bargained for when adventure comes knocking in the form of two Spanish travelers who need help. |
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Page 29
... never expect that . " He had actually impaled a crawling cockroach . He spent his days cooking extraor- dinary messes , crouching for hours over a little charcoal brazier that he lit surreptitiously in the back of his bunk , making ...
... never expect that . " He had actually impaled a crawling cockroach . He spent his days cooking extraor- dinary messes , crouching for hours over a little charcoal brazier that he lit surreptitiously in the back of his bunk , making ...
Page 43
... , " he said ; “ I don't want no spies on what I do . There's a man there ' ll crack your little backbone if he catches you . Don't yeh come now . Never . " R PART SECOND THE GIRL WITH THE LIZARD CHAPTER I PART FIRST 43.
... , " he said ; “ I don't want no spies on what I do . There's a man there ' ll crack your little backbone if he catches you . Don't yeh come now . Never . " R PART SECOND THE GIRL WITH THE LIZARD CHAPTER I PART FIRST 43.
Page 47
... never again be Spanish , nor do I wish that it should . But our little , waspish friend there " -he lifted one thin , brown hand to the sign of the Buckatoro Journal— “ his paper is doing much mischief . I think the admiral or the ...
... never again be Spanish , nor do I wish that it should . But our little , waspish friend there " -he lifted one thin , brown hand to the sign of the Buckatoro Journal— “ his paper is doing much mischief . I think the admiral or the ...
Page 49
... never seen . I didn't get on with the men any better . They were either very dried up and querulous , too , or else very liquorish or boisterous in an incompre- hensible way . Their evenings seemed to be a constant succession of shouts ...
... never seen . I didn't get on with the men any better . They were either very dried up and querulous , too , or else very liquorish or boisterous in an incompre- hensible way . Their evenings seemed to be a constant succession of shouts ...
Page 56
... the island . They'll make it out high treason . They are capable of sending you home on this charge . " " Oh , never say die . " Williams turned to me , " Come dine with me on board at Kingston to - morrow night . 56 ROMANCE.
... the island . They'll make it out high treason . They are capable of sending you home on this charge . " " Oh , never say die . " Williams turned to me , " Come dine with me on board at Kingston to - morrow night . 56 ROMANCE.
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