Romance (novel)

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Romance: A Novel (1903)
Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford
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R O M A N C E


A NOVEL



BY

JOSEPH CONRAD

AND

FORD MADOX HUEFFER



LONDON

SMITH, ELDER & CO., 15, WATERLOO PLACE

1903

(All rights reserved)

To

ELSIE AND JESSIE.


ROMANCE.

"C'est toi qui dors dans l'ombre, ô sacré Souvenir."

If we could have remembrance now
And see, as in the days to come
We shall, what's venturous in these hours:
The swift, intangible romance of fields at home,
The gleams of sun, the showers,
Our workaday contentments, or our powers
To fare still forward through the uncharted haze
Of present days. . . .
 
For, looking back when years shall flow
Upon this olden day that's now,
We'll see, romantic in dimn'd hours,
These memories of ours.

CONTENTS.
PART FIRST.
The Quarry and the Beach... ... ... ... 1
PART SECOND.
The Girl with the Lizard ... ... ... 46
PART THIRD.
Casa Riego ... ... ... ... ... ... 117
PART FOURTH.
Blade and Guitar ... ... ... ... 208
PART FIFTH.
The Lot of Man ... ... ... ... ... 394

PRINTED BY
WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,
LONDON AND BECCLES.

BY THE SAME AUTHORS.

THE INHERITORS:

An Extravagant Story.


This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.


The longest-living author of this work died in 1939, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 84 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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