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Page 54
A high nasal sound came from the carriage window . " Sir Charles ! Sir Charles !
Let there be no scene in my presence , I beg . " I suddenly saw , halfway up ,
laboriously ascending the steps , a black figure , indistinguishable at first on
account ...
A high nasal sound came from the carriage window . " Sir Charles ! Sir Charles !
Let there be no scene in my presence , I beg . " I suddenly saw , halfway up ,
laboriously ascending the steps , a black figure , indistinguishable at first on
account ...
Page 75
My surprise , rage , and horror had been so great that , after the first stifled cry , I
had made no sound . I heard the footsteps of several men going away .
CHAPTER IV REMAINED lying there , bound hand and foot PART SECOND 75.
My surprise , rage , and horror had been so great that , after the first stifled cry , I
had made no sound . I heard the footsteps of several men going away .
CHAPTER IV REMAINED lying there , bound hand and foot PART SECOND 75.
Page 78
Then the door closed with a definite sound of shutting in . The light shone redly
through protecting fingers , and upwards on to a small face . It came to a halt ,
and I made out the figure of a girl leaning across a table and looking upwards .
Then the door closed with a definite sound of shutting in . The light shone redly
through protecting fingers , and upwards on to a small face . It came to a halt ,
and I made out the figure of a girl leaning across a table and looking upwards .
Page 80
The sound of another kick at the door made me swing myself out , head first ,
without reflection . I got soused to the waist before I had reached the bows of the
boat . With a frantic effort I clambered up and rolled in . When I got on my legs ,
the ...
The sound of another kick at the door made me swing myself out , head first ,
without reflection . I got soused to the waist before I had reached the bows of the
boat . With a frantic effort I clambered up and rolled in . When I got on my legs ,
the ...
Page 81
By that time she was quite near — near enough for me to hear the lazy sound of
the water at her bows , and the occasional flutter of a sail . The land breeze was
dying away , and in the wake of the moon I perceived the boat of my pursuers ...
By that time she was quite near — near enough for me to hear the lazy sound of
the water at her bows , and the occasional flutter of a sail . The land breeze was
dying away , and in the wake of the moon I perceived the boat of my pursuers ...
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Page 41 - 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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