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... Heyst . I have always liked him . The flesh and blood individual who stands behind the in- finitely more familiar ... Heyst of course ; he is only the physical and moral foun- dation of my Heyst laid on the ground of a short ac ...
... Heyst . I have always liked him . The flesh and blood individual who stands behind the in- finitely more familiar ... Heyst of course ; he is only the physical and moral foun- dation of my Heyst laid on the ground of a short ac ...
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... Heyst - Axel Heyst - from going away . The Tropical Belt Coal Company went into liquida- tion . The world of finance is a mysterious world in which , incredible as the fact may appear , evaporation precedes liquidation . First the ...
... Heyst - Axel Heyst - from going away . The Tropical Belt Coal Company went into liquida- tion . The world of finance is a mysterious world in which , incredible as the fact may appear , evaporation precedes liquidation . First the ...
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... Heyst could see his immediate surroundings , which had the aspect of an abandoned settlement invaded by the jungle : vague roofs above low vegetation , broken shadows of bamboo fences in the sheen of long grass , something like an ...
... Heyst could see his immediate surroundings , which had the aspect of an abandoned settlement invaded by the jungle : vague roofs above low vegetation , broken shadows of bamboo fences in the sheen of long grass , something like an ...
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... Heyst's case a magic circle . It just touched Manila , and he had been seen there . It just touched Saigon , and he was likewise seen there once . Perhaps these were his attempts to break out . If so , they were failures . The ...
... Heyst's case a magic circle . It just touched Manila , and he had been seen there . It just touched Saigon , and he was likewise seen there once . Perhaps these were his attempts to break out . If so , they were failures . The ...
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... Heyst hailed him across the street in his usual courtly tone , the week was nearly out . Heyst crossed over , and said with a slight bow , and in the manner of a prince addressing another prince on a private occasion : " What an ...
... Heyst hailed him across the street in his usual courtly tone , the week was nearly out . Heyst crossed over , and said with a slight bow , and in the manner of a prince addressing another prince on a private occasion : " What an ...
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ain't Alfuro arms asked believe boat breath brig bungalow buran chair cheroot chimæras Chinaman clairvoyance course dark Davidson door doorway eyes face faint feeling fellow felt frightened gaze gentleman girl glance gleam gone governor gunwale hand hanging head heard Heyst hotel-keeper island Java Sea jetty Jones JOSEPH CONRAD knew Lena light lips looked Malay Martin matter mean mind Morrison moustaches moved movement murmured mysterious never night Number once paused Pedro perhaps physiognomy quiet Ricardo round Samburan sarong sauceboat Schom Schomberg schooner seemed shadow shoulders side sight silence smile sort sound Sourabaya speak stare stood strange suddenly surprised Swede table d'hôte talk tell Tesmans There's thing thought tion told tone Tropical Belt Coal turned understand verandah voice walked Wang watched wharf What's whispered woman wonder words Zangiacomo
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Page 410 - Ah, Davidson, woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!
Page xv - I went in there only to ask for a bottle of lemonade I have not to this day the slightest idea what in my appearance or actions could have roused his terrible ire. It became manifest to me less than two minutes after I had set eyes on him for the first time, and though immensely surprised of course I didn't stop to think it out. I took the nearest short cut — through the wall. This bestial apparition and a certain enormous buck nigger encountered in Haiti only a couple of months afterwards, have...
Page 3 - THERE is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds. It is the reason, I believe, why some people allude to coal as "black diamonds." Both these commodities represent wealth; but coal is a much less portable form of property. There is, from that point of view, a deplorable lack of concentration in coal. Now, if a coalmine could be put into one's waistcoat pocket — but it can't!
Page 167 - Are we likely to be seen on our way?" "No, unless by native craft," said Schomberg. Ricardo nodded, satisfied. Both these white men looked on native life as a mere play of shadows. A play of shadows the dominant race could walk through unaffected and disregarded in the pursuit of its incomprehensible aims and needs.
Page 219 - Of the stratagems of life the most cruel is the consolation of love — the most subtle, too; for the desire is the bed of dreams.
Page 350 - I've said to the Earth that bore me: 'I am I and you are a shadow.' And, by Jove, it is so! But it appears that such words cannot be uttered with impunity. Here I am on a Shadow inhabited by Shades. How helpless a man is against the Shades! How is one to intimidate, persuade, resist, assert oneself against them? I have lost all belief in realities. . . . Lena, give me your hand.
Page 113 - Schomberg's argument was met by Mr. Jones's statement that one must do something to kill time. Killing time was not forbidden. For the rest, being in a communicative mood, Mr. Jones said languidly and in a voice indifferent, as if issuing from a tomb, that he depended on himself, as if the world were still one great, wild jungle without law. Martin was something like that, too — for reasons of his own. All these statements Ricardo confirmed by short, inhuman grins. Schomberg lowered his eyes, for...
Page 116 - But Pedro, at any rate, was just a simple, straightforward brute, if a murderous one. There was no mystery about him, nothing uncanny, no suggestion of a stealthy, deliberate wild-cat turned into a man, or of an insolent spectre on leave from Hades, endowed with skin and bones and a subtle power of terror.
Page 74 - It was not distinguished — that could not be expected — but the features had more fineness than those of any other feminine countenance he had ever had the opportunity to observe so closely. There was in it something indefinably audacious and infinitely miserable — because the temperament and the existence of that girl were reflected in it. But her voice! It seduced Heyst by its amazing quality. It was a voice fit to utter the most exquisite things, a voice which would have made silly chatter...
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