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Page xii
The reader will go on reading if the book pleases him and the critic will go on
criticizing with that faculty of detachment born perhaps from a sense of infinite
littleness and which is yet the only faculty that seems to assimilate man to the
immortal ...
The reader will go on reading if the book pleases him and the critic will go on
criticizing with that faculty of detachment born perhaps from a sense of infinite
littleness and which is yet the only faculty that seems to assimilate man to the
immortal ...
Page xvi
... of immense commiseration: "The poor man has left a young daughter." Who
was to look after her I don't know, but I saw the devoted Martin taking the trunks
ashore with great care just before I landed myself. I would perhaps have tracked
the ...
... of immense commiseration: "The poor man has left a young daughter." Who
was to look after her I don't know, but I saw the devoted Martin taking the trunks
ashore with great care just before I landed myself. I would perhaps have tracked
the ...
Page xix
... uproar of voices, the rattling of dominoes, through a blue atmosphere pf
tobacco smoke. I believe that those people left the town next day. Or perhaps
they had only migrated to the other big cafe, on the other side of the Place de la
Comedie.
... uproar of voices, the rattling of dominoes, through a blue atmosphere pf
tobacco smoke. I believe that those people left the town next day. Or perhaps
they had only migrated to the other big cafe, on the other side of the Place de la
Comedie.
Page 6
... shot it out suddenly, a prapos des ottes, as the French say, and while chalking
his cue. :nd perhaps it was some sort of enchantment. Thee are more spells than
your commonplace magicians ever dreamed of. Roughly speaking, 6 VICTORY.
... shot it out suddenly, a prapos des ottes, as the French say, and while chalking
his cue. :nd perhaps it was some sort of enchantment. Thee are more spells than
your commonplace magicians ever dreamed of. Roughly speaking, 6 VICTORY.
Page 7
Perhaps these were his attempts to break out. If so, they were failures. The
enchantment must have been an unbreakable one. The manager — the man
who heard the exclamation — had been so impressed by the tone, fervour,
rapture, what ...
Perhaps these were his attempts to break out. If so, they were failures. The
enchantment must have been an unbreakable one. The manager — the man
who heard the exclamation — had been so impressed by the tone, fervour,
rapture, what ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Victory: An Island Tale |
| Author | Joseph Conrad |
| Publisher | Doubleday, Page, 1923 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 28 Aug 2009 |
| Length | 462 pages |
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