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Page 28
If I had had a few pence more there would have been none of this worry , and I
should not have been on this dirty ship in these rags . " He looked down good -
humoredly at his clothes . " But , " I said , “ how do you come to be in a scrape at
all ...
If I had had a few pence more there would have been none of this worry , and I
should not have been on this dirty ship in these rags . " He looked down good -
humoredly at his clothes . " But , " I said , “ how do you come to be in a scrape at
all ...
Page 31
I had noticed an intimacy spring up between the ship ' s second mate and Tomas
, who was , it seemed to me , forever engaged in long confabulations in the man '
s cabin , and , as much to make talk as for any other reason , I asked Carlos if ...
I had noticed an intimacy spring up between the ship ' s second mate and Tomas
, who was , it seemed to me , forever engaged in long confabulations in the man '
s cabin , and , as much to make talk as for any other reason , I asked Carlos if ...
Page 31
It seems to leave the ship in Jamaica , and has mon the merchant , even as I hare
To tell you . " see disagreeable intonation and rather to watch him , desultorily ,
and more than a suspicion that he hingels occasion in particular I seemed to be ...
It seems to leave the ship in Jamaica , and has mon the merchant , even as I hare
To tell you . " see disagreeable intonation and rather to watch him , desultorily ,
and more than a suspicion that he hingels occasion in particular I seemed to be ...
Page 34
A great ship , floating high on the water , black , and girt with the two broad yellow
streaks of her double tier of guns , glided out slowly from beyond a cluster of
shipping in the bay . She passed without a hail , going out under her topsails with
a ...
A great ship , floating high on the water , black , and girt with the two broad yellow
streaks of her double tier of guns , glided out slowly from beyond a cluster of
shipping in the bay . She passed without a hail , going out under her topsails with
a ...
Page 35
A great bustle of shore - going , of leave - taking had sprung up all over the ship .
Carlos and Castro had entered with a tall , immobile , gold - spectacled Spaniard
, dressed all in white , and with a certain air of noticing and attentive deference ...
A great bustle of shore - going , of leave - taking had sprung up all over the ship .
Carlos and Castro had entered with a tall , immobile , gold - spectacled Spaniard
, dressed all in white , and with a certain air of noticing and attentive deference ...
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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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