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Page 125
He leaned a shoulder against the wall , or sat on the floor of the gallery with his
short legs stretched out near the big mahogany door of Carlos ' room , with many
cigarettes stuck behind his ears and in the band of his hat . When these were ...
He leaned a shoulder against the wall , or sat on the floor of the gallery with his
short legs stretched out near the big mahogany door of Carlos ' room , with many
cigarettes stuck behind his ears and in the band of his hat . When these were ...
Page 129
The encounter having taken place under the wall of a convent , O ' Brien had
contrived to keep Don Vincente in prison ever since — not on a charge of murder
( which for a young man of that quality would have been a comparatively venial ...
The encounter having taken place under the wall of a convent , O ' Brien had
contrived to keep Don Vincente in prison ever since — not on a charge of murder
( which for a young man of that quality would have been a comparatively venial ...
Page 134
This part of the house was dark in the inky flood of shadow ; and before I had
come to a recess in the wall , I heard the discreet scratching of a finger - nail on a
door . A streak of light darted and disappeared , like a signal for the murmurs of
two ...
This part of the house was dark in the inky flood of shadow ; and before I had
come to a recess in the wall , I heard the discreet scratching of a finger - nail on a
door . A streak of light darted and disappeared , like a signal for the murmurs of
two ...
Page 136
... of light lying mistily on the bay , and two black shapes , cloaked , moving and
stopping all of a piece like pillars , their immensely long shadows running away
from their feet , with the points of the hats touching the wall of the Casa Riego .
... of light lying mistily on the bay , and two black shapes , cloaked , moving and
stopping all of a piece like pillars , their immensely long shadows running away
from their feet , with the points of the hats touching the wall of the Casa Riego .
Page 137
Their hissing ascended along the wall from under the window . The two
Lugarenos had stolen in unnoticed by me . There was a stifled metallic ringing ,
as of a guitar carried under a cloak . “ Vengeance on the heretic Inglez ! ” . "
Come away !
Their hissing ascended along the wall from under the window . The two
Lugarenos had stolen in unnoticed by me . There was a stifled metallic ringing ,
as of a guitar carried under a cloak . “ Vengeance on the heretic Inglez ! ” . "
Come away !
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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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