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Page xii
One of the men with me said that the fellow was the most desperate gambler he
had ever come across . I said : “ A professional sharper ? ” and got for answer : “
He's a terror ; but I must say that up to a certain point he will play fair . I wonder ...
One of the men with me said that the fellow was the most desperate gambler he
had ever come across . I said : “ A professional sharper ? ” and got for answer : “
He's a terror ; but I must say that up to a certain point he will play fair . I wonder ...
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Queer chap , that Swede , was his only comment ; but this is the origin of the
name " Enchanted Heyst ” which some fellows fastened on our man . He also had
other names . In his early years , long before he got so becomingly bald on the
top ...
Queer chap , that Swede , was his only comment ; but this is the origin of the
name " Enchanted Heyst ” which some fellows fastened on our man . He also had
other names . In his early years , long before he got so becomingly bald on the
top ...
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... was also an honest fellow - began to talk about repayment . He knew very well
his inability to lay by any sum of money . It was partly the fault of circumstances
and partly of his temperament ; and it would have been very difficult to apportion
...
... was also an honest fellow - began to talk about repayment . He knew very well
his inability to lay by any sum of money . It was partly the fault of circumstances
and partly of his temperament ; and it would have been very difficult to apportion
...
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As a matter of fact , many of us did not hear of this death till months afterward —
from Schomberg , whọ disliked Heyst gratuitously and made up a piece of sinister
whispered gossip : “ That's what comes of having anything to do with that fellow .
As a matter of fact , many of us did not hear of this death till months afterward —
from Schomberg , whọ disliked Heyst gratuitously and made up a piece of sinister
whispered gossip : “ That's what comes of having anything to do with that fellow .
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Why , there can't be anything in it . A fellow like that for manager ? Phoo ! ” Was it
the clairvoyance of imbecile hatred , or mere stupid tenacity of opinion , which
ends sometimes by scoring against the world in a most astonishing manner ?
Why , there can't be anything in it . A fellow like that for manager ? Phoo ! ” Was it
the clairvoyance of imbecile hatred , or mere stupid tenacity of opinion , which
ends sometimes by scoring against the world in a most astonishing manner ?
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Page xv - 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 ways of that man of immense sincerity for a little while, but I had some of my own very pressing business to attend to, which in the end got mixed up with an earthquake and so I had no time to give to Ricardo. The reader need not be told that I have not forgotten him, though. My contact...
Page 197 - Funny position, wasn't it? The boredom came later, when we lived together on board his ship. I had, in a moment of inadvertence, created for myself a tie. How to define it precisely I don't know. One gets attached in a way to people one has done something for. But is that friendship? I am not sure what it was. I only know that he who forms a tie is lost. The germ of corruption has entered into his soul.
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 165 - 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 72 - At last they steadied in contact, but by that time, say some fifteen minutes from the moment when they sat down, the "interval" came to an end. So much for their eyes. As to the conversation, it had been perfectly insignificant, because naturally they had nothing to say to each other. Heyst had been interested by the girl's physiognomy. Its expression was neither simple nor yet very clear. It was not distinguished — that could not be expected — but the features had more fineness than those of...
Page 104 - Latin races; and though his eyes strayed about irresolutely, yet his swollen, angry features awakened in the miserable woman over whom he had been tyrannising for years a fear for his precious carcass, since the poor creature had nothing else but that to hold on to in the world. She knew him well; but she did not know him altogether. The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage. And, timid in her corner, she ventured to...
Page 89 - Three years of such companionship at that plastic and impressionable age were bound to leave in the boy a profound mistrust of life. The young man learned to reflect, which is a destructive process, a reckoning of the cost.
Page 114 - 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 397 - The very sting of death was in her hands; the venom of the viper in her paradise, extracted, safe in her possession — and the viper's head all but lying under her heel.
Page 31 - Hermit. This was the latest of the more or less witty labels applied to Heyst during his aimless pilgrimage in this section of the tropical belt, where the inane clacking of Schomberg's tongue vexed our ears. But apparently Heyst was not a hermit by temperament. The sight of his kind was not invincibly odious to him. We must believe this, since for some reason or other he did come out from his retreat for a while. Perhaps it was only to see whether there were any letters for him at the Tesmans. I...