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Page 89
Up till then I hadn ' t realized that anyone could be much interested in Mrs .
Cowper . He caught hold of my arm , as if he wanted support , and stuttered : "
Couldn ' t you — couldn ' t you speak to ” He nodded in the direction of Tomas
Castro ...
Up till then I hadn ' t realized that anyone could be much interested in Mrs .
Cowper . He caught hold of my arm , as if he wanted support , and stuttered : "
Couldn ' t you — couldn ' t you speak to ” He nodded in the direction of Tomas
Castro ...
Page 96
His air was mournful in the extreme , and he began to speak resonantly as if his
chest were a sounding - board . He used immensely long sentences , of which I
only understood one - half . " What , then , is the difference between me , Manuel
...
His air was mournful in the extreme , and he began to speak resonantly as if his
chest were a sounding - board . He used immensely long sentences , of which I
only understood one - half . " What , then , is the difference between me , Manuel
...
Page 100
He could not even speak to me — his Tomas ; it was pitiful . He could not speak
when we got to the Casa . " I could not really understand why I had been a
second time kidnaped . Castro said that O ' Brien had not been unwilling that I
should ...
He could not even speak to me — his Tomas ; it was pitiful . He could not speak
when we got to the Casa . " I could not really understand why I had been a
second time kidnaped . Castro said that O ' Brien had not been unwilling that I
should ...
Page 104
You should not speak roughly to him , " he said . " English beast ! He is dying . " "
No , I won ' t speak roughly to him , " I answered . " I see . " I did see . At first I had
been suspicious ; it might have been put on to mollify me . But one could not put ...
You should not speak roughly to him , " he said . " English beast ! He is dying . " "
No , I won ' t speak roughly to him , " I answered . " I see . " I did see . At first I had
been suspicious ; it might have been put on to mollify me . But one could not put ...
Page 108
I am , in fact , speaking of my uncle and the man called O ' Brien . You have seen
him . " Carlos spoke in a voice hardly above a whisper , but he stuck to his task
with indomitable courage . " If I die and leave him here , he will have my uncle to
...
I am , in fact , speaking of my uncle and the man called O ' Brien . You have seen
him . " Carlos spoke in a voice hardly above a whisper , but he stuck to his task
with indomitable courage . " If I die and leave him here , he will have my uncle to
...
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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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