VictoryOn a rare impulse Swedish Baron and rootless drifter Axel Heyst, rescues a sea captain from his debts. This uncharacteristic act of kindness has unimagined and tragic repercussions for many people, with the reader being left to decide the nature and attainability of ultimate victory. |
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Page 91
... better have a look with your own eyes . You may make it out better than I can . " ' His eyes weren't anything as good as mine . But he says : " Certainly . Certainly . You did quite right . " ' And it's a fact I had seen some drift ...
... better have a look with your own eyes . You may make it out better than I can . " ' His eyes weren't anything as good as mine . But he says : " Certainly . Certainly . You did quite right . " ' And it's a fact I had seen some drift ...
Page 160
... better to beat him into insensibility than to have him go crazy in the boat , and to be obliged to shoot him . The preventive , adminis- tered with enough force to brain an elephant , boasted Ricardo , had to be applied on two occasions ...
... better to beat him into insensibility than to have him go crazy in the boat , and to be obliged to shoot him . The preventive , adminis- tered with enough force to brain an elephant , boasted Ricardo , had to be applied on two occasions ...
Page 224
... better than any trained ape could have done . I came away . All the time I had been thinking anxiously of you , whom ... better see them before you - ' She made a barely perceptible movement of recoil , checked at once , and stood still ...
... better than any trained ape could have done . I came away . All the time I had been thinking anxiously of you , whom ... better see them before you - ' She made a barely perceptible movement of recoil , checked at once , and stood still ...
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