Romance: A NovelOne 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 5
... a man popular with all sorts , and in love with my sister Veronica from early
days . Veronica was very beautiful , and very gentle , and very kind ; tall , slim ,
with sloping white shoulders and long white arms , hair the color of amber , and
PART ...
... a man popular with all sorts , and in love with my sister Veronica from early
days . Veronica was very beautiful , and very gentle , and very kind ; tall , slim ,
with sloping white shoulders and long white arms , hair the color of amber , and
PART ...
Page 7
... they called themselves — were as well organized for helping malefactors out of
the country as for running goods in ; so it came about that we used to have
coiners and forgers , murderers and French spies - all sorts of malefactors —
hiding ...
... they called themselves — were as well organized for helping malefactors out of
the country as for running goods in ; so it came about that we used to have
coiners and forgers , murderers and French spies - all sorts of malefactors —
hiding ...
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And I was horribly afraid - horribly of the sort of mysterious potency of the laws
that these men represented , and I could think of nothing to do . We stood in a
little slanting cutting in the shadow . A watery light before the moon's rising
slanted ...
And I was horribly afraid - horribly of the sort of mysterious potency of the laws
that these men represented , and I could think of nothing to do . We stood in a
little slanting cutting in the shadow . A watery light before the moon's rising
slanted ...
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... at the same moment , a glazed show - case full of razors and brushes swung
noiselessly forward with an effect of the supernatural . A small opening , just big
enough to take a man's body , revealed itself . We passed through it and up a sort
...
... at the same moment , a glazed show - case full of razors and brushes swung
noiselessly forward with an effect of the supernatural . A small opening , just big
enough to take a man's body , revealed itself . We passed through it and up a sort
...
Page 28
... uncle with the romantic title and the great inheritance , and the cousinthe Miss
Seraphina , whom he would probably marry . I imagined him an aristocratic
scapegrace , a corsair — it was the Byronic period then — sailing out to marry a
sort ...
... uncle with the romantic title and the great inheritance , and the cousinthe Miss
Seraphina , whom he would probably marry . I imagined him an aristocratic
scapegrace , a corsair — it was the Byronic period then — sailing out to marry a
sort ...
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| Title | Romance: A Novel |
| Authors | Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford |
| Publisher | Doubleday, Page, 1903 |
| Original from | The Ohio State University |
| Digitized | 24 Oct 2018 |
| Length | 428 pages |
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