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Page 26
I lived with Carlos in the cabin — Castro in the half - deck ; but we were all three
pretty constantly together , and they being the only Spaniards on board , we were
more or less isolated from the other passengers . Looking at my companions at ...
I lived with Carlos in the cabin — Castro in the half - deck ; but we were all three
pretty constantly together , and they being the only Spaniards on board , we were
more or less isolated from the other passengers . Looking at my companions at ...
Page 48
... and who lived at the bottom of a bottle - necked creek with tooth rocks all over
the entrance that was the sort of place ... because Macdonald , with whom I lived
for two years at Horton Pen , was himself a Separationist , in a cool Scotch sort of
...
... and who lived at the bottom of a bottle - necked creek with tooth rocks all over
the entrance that was the sort of place ... because Macdonald , with whom I lived
for two years at Horton Pen , was himself a Separationist , in a cool Scotch sort of
...
Page 66
... in what I have in my mind for you . " He had heard frequently from Carlos that I
was a desperate and aristocratically lawless young man , who had lived in a
district entirely given up to desperate and murderous smugglers . But 66
ROMANCE.
... in what I have in my mind for you . " He had heard frequently from Carlos that I
was a desperate and aristocratically lawless young man , who had lived in a
district entirely given up to desperate and murderous smugglers . But 66
ROMANCE.
Page 70
Living in the center of Separationist discontent with the Macdonalds , I knew it
was not true . But nothing was too bad to say against the planters who clamored
for union with the United States . O ' Brien leaned forward . His voice had a note
of ...
Living in the center of Separationist discontent with the Macdonalds , I knew it
was not true . But nothing was too bad to say against the planters who clamored
for union with the United States . O ' Brien leaned forward . His voice had a note
of ...
Page 99
It was as if he had lived well , on the whole . He bent his head over the strings ,
plucked one , tightened a peg , plucked it again , then set the instrument on the
table , and dropped onto the mattress . " Will you have some rum ? " he said .
It was as if he had lived well , on the whole . He bent his head over the strings ,
plucked one , tightened a peg , plucked it again , then set the instrument on the
table , and dropped onto the mattress . " Will you have some rum ? " he said .
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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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