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 29
... spare for that sort of pike , in the muddy waters , during the first years of the
century . But the waters were clearing , and now the good Castro had been
dodging the gallows in the Antilles or in Mexico . In his heroic moods he would
swear that ...
... spare for that sort of pike , in the muddy waters , during the first years of the
century . But the waters were clearing , and now the good Castro had been
dodging the gallows in the Antilles or in Mexico . In his heroic moods he would
swear that ...
Page 33
I am done with yeh , ” he said , with a sort of sinister restraint . He rose to his feet ,
and , turning his back to me , began to shave , squinting into a broken looking -
glass . I had not the slightest inkling of his meaning . I only knew that going out of
...
I am done with yeh , ” he said , with a sort of sinister restraint . He rose to his feet ,
and , turning his back to me , began to shave , squinting into a broken looking -
glass . I had not the slightest inkling of his meaning . I only knew that going out of
...
Page 39
I began to wonder what Rooksby would have thought of this sort of thing , to
wonder why Castro himself found it necessary to crouch for such a long time . Up
above , the hum of many people , still laughing , still talking , faded a little out of
mind ...
I began to wonder what Rooksby would have thought of this sort of thing , to
wonder why Castro himself found it necessary to crouch for such a long time . Up
above , the hum of many people , still laughing , still talking , faded a little out of
mind ...
Page 48
But obviously Rowley and his frigates weren't much use against a pirate whom
they could not catch at sea , and who lived at the bottom of a bottle - necked
creek with tooth rocks all over the entrance that was the sort of place Rio Medio
was ...
But obviously Rowley and his frigates weren't much use against a pirate whom
they could not catch at sea , and who lived at the bottom of a bottle - necked
creek with tooth rocks all over the entrance that was the sort of place Rio Medio
was ...
Page 50
I knew him well , an amusing , queer , warped , Satanic member of society , who
was a sort of nephew to the Macdonalds , and hand in glove with all the Scotch
Separationists of the island . He had started an extraordinary , scandalous paper
...
I knew him well , an amusing , queer , warped , Satanic member of society , who
was a sort of nephew to the Macdonalds , and hand in glove with all the Scotch
Separationists of the island . He had started an extraordinary , scandalous paper
...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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