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... coming up on deck again with a face on which nothing could be read , would as likely as not resume for my edification the exposition of his moral attitude toward life illustrated by striking particular instances of the most atrocious ...
... coming up on deck again with a face on which nothing could be read , would as likely as not resume for my edification the exposition of his moral attitude toward life illustrated by striking particular instances of the most atrocious ...
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... coming by from the westward , saw him with his own eyes . Something white on the wharf ; so he steamed in and went ashore in a small boat . Heyst , right enough . Put a book into his pocket , always very polite . Been strolling on the ...
... coming by from the westward , saw him with his own eyes . Something white on the wharf ; so he steamed in and went ashore in a small boat . Heyst , right enough . Put a book into his pocket , always very polite . Been strolling on the ...
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... coming on shore later in the day , brought tales of a strange invasion , and wanted to know who were the two offensive lunatics in a steam - launch , apparently after a man and a girl , and telling a story of which one could make ...
... coming on shore later in the day , brought tales of a strange invasion , and wanted to know who were the two offensive lunatics in a steam - launch , apparently after a man and a girl , and telling a story of which one could make ...
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... coming down in pairs from the platform into the body of Schomberg's " concert - hall . " They dispersed themselves all over the place . The male creature with the hooked nose and purple - black beard disappeared somewhere . This was the ...
... coming down in pairs from the platform into the body of Schomberg's " concert - hall . " They dispersed themselves all over the place . The male creature with the hooked nose and purple - black beard disappeared somewhere . This was the ...
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... coming down the three steps from the platform to the floor of the hall . There she paused , stumbled one pace forward , and stood still again , while the other -the escort , the dragoon , the coarse big woman of the piano - passed her ...
... coming down the three steps from the platform to the floor of the hall . There she paused , stumbled one pace forward , and stood still again , while the other -the escort , the dragoon , the coarse big woman of the piano - passed her ...
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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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