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Page 19
The sound of the others ' horses had long died away down the hill when he
began to tell me what he ought to have done . " I knew it at once after I ' d let you
go . I ought to have kept you out of it . You came near being murdered . And to
think of ...
The sound of the others ' horses had long died away down the hill when he
began to tell me what he ought to have done . " I knew it at once after I ' d let you
go . I ought to have kept you out of it . You came near being murdered . And to
think of ...
Page 33
Men , I tell you . " He slapped his bony breast . I had no idea that he could look so
ferocious . His eyes fascinated me , and he opened his cavernous mouth as if to
swallow me . His lantern jaws snapped without a sound . He seemed to change ...
Men , I tell you . " He slapped his bony breast . I had no idea that he could look so
ferocious . His eyes fascinated me , and he opened his cavernous mouth as if to
swallow me . His lantern jaws snapped without a sound . He seemed to change ...
Page 34
The only sounds that came out of her were the piping of boatswains ' calls and
the tramping of feet . Imagining her to be going home , I felt a great desire to be
on board . Ultimately , as it turned out , I went home in that very ship , but then it
was ...
The only sounds that came out of her were the piping of boatswains ' calls and
the tramping of feet . Imagining her to be going home , I felt a great desire to be
on board . Ultimately , as it turned out , I went home in that very ship , but then it
was ...
Page 42
He was so slow , so deliberate , that I own I began to wonder whether Carlos and
Castro were still on board . It seemed to be at least half an hour before
Macdonald cleared his throat , with a sound resembling the coughing of a
defective pump ...
He was so slow , so deliberate , that I own I began to wonder whether Carlos and
Castro were still on board . It seemed to be at least half an hour before
Macdonald cleared his throat , with a sound resembling the coughing of a
defective pump ...
Page 52
Veronica ' s letter came like a faint echo , like the sound of very distant surf ,
heard at night ; it seemed impossible that anyone could be as interested as she
in the things that were happening over there . She had had a son ; one of Ralph '
s ...
Veronica ' s letter came like a faint echo , like the sound of very distant surf ,
heard at night ; it seemed impossible that anyone could be as interested as she
in the things that were happening over there . She had had a son ; one of Ralph '
s ...
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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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