Romance. Джозеф Конрад
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Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford
Romance
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664628527
Table of Contents
PART FIRST — THE QUARRY AND THE BEACH
PART SECOND — THE GIRL WITH THE LIZARD
PART FOURTH — BLADE AND GUITAR
PART FIRST—THE QUARRY AND THE BEACH
ROMANCE
CHAPTER ONE
To yesterday and to to-day I say my polite “vaya usted con Dios.” What are these days to me? But that far-off day of my romance, when from between the blue and white bales in Don Ramon's darkened storeroom, at Kingston, I saw the door open before the figure of an old man with the tired, long, white face, that day I am not likely to forget. I remember the chilly smell of the typical West Indian store, the indescribable smell of damp gloom, of locos, of pimento, of olive oil, of new sugar, of new rum; the glassy double sheen of Ramon's great spectacles, the piercing eyes in the mahogany face, while the tap, tap, tap of a cane on the flags went on behind the inner door; the click of the latch; the stream of light. The door, petulantly thrust inwards, struck against some barrels. I remember the