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... waited for him in a world which he persisted in look- ing upon as a malevolent shadow spinning in the sunlight . Often in the course of years an expressed sentiment , the particular sense of a phrase heard casually , would re- call him ...
... waited for him in a world which he persisted in look- ing upon as a malevolent shadow spinning in the sunlight . Often in the course of years an expressed sentiment , the particular sense of a phrase heard casually , would re- call him ...
Page 58
... waited , ringing the bell again and again , and swallowing two or three iced drinks which he did not want . Presently , as he hoped it would happen , Mrs. Schomberg came in , silk dress , long neck , ringlets , scared eyes , and silly ...
... waited , ringing the bell again and again , and swallowing two or three iced drinks which he did not want . Presently , as he hoped it would happen , Mrs. Schomberg came in , silk dress , long neck , ringlets , scared eyes , and silly ...
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... felt her lips touch his lightly , and the next mo- ment she was gone . Her white dress gleamed in the distance , and then the opaque darkness of the house seemed to swallow it . Heyst waited a little before VICTORY 89.
... felt her lips touch his lightly , and the next mo- ment she was gone . Her white dress gleamed in the distance , and then the opaque darkness of the house seemed to swallow it . Heyst waited a little before VICTORY 89.
Page 90
Joseph Conrad. seemed to swallow it . Heyst waited a little before he went the same way , round the corner , up the steps of the verandah , and into his room , where he lay down at last - not to sleep , but to go over in his mind all ...
Joseph Conrad. seemed to swallow it . Heyst waited a little before he went the same way , round the corner , up the steps of the verandah , and into his room , where he lay down at last - not to sleep , but to go over in his mind all ...
Page 119
... waited for him- no fit companion for a man of his ability and " in the prime of life . " But that life , alas , was blighted . He felt it ; and never with such force as when on opening the door he perceived that woman sitting patiently ...
... waited for him- no fit companion for a man of his ability and " in the prime of life . " But that life , alas , was blighted . He felt it ; and never with such force as when on opening the door he perceived that woman sitting patiently ...
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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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