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 115
... human eye will see you on the passage . All you've got to do is to keep her heading northeast for , say , fifty hours ; perhaps not quite so long . There will always be draft enough to keep a boat moving ; you may reckon on that ; and ...
... human eye will see you on the passage . All you've got to do is to keep her heading northeast for , say , fifty hours ; perhaps not quite so long . There will always be draft enough to keep a boat moving ; you may reckon on that ; and ...
Page 122
... human speech . It was easy to be taciturn with Heyst , who had plunged himself into an abyss of meditation over books , and remained in it till the shadow of Wang falling across the page , and the sound of a rough , low voice uttering ...
... human speech . It was easy to be taciturn with Heyst , who had plunged himself into an abyss of meditation over books , and remained in it till the shadow of Wang falling across the page , and the sound of a rough , low voice uttering ...
Page 136
... he did not yet know how to live ; that human being so near and still so strange , gave him a greater sense of his own reality than he had ever known in all his life . CHAPTER IV WITH HER KNEES DRAWN UP , Lena rested 136 VICTORY.
... he did not yet know how to live ; that human being so near and still so strange , gave him a greater sense of his own reality than he had ever known in all his life . CHAPTER IV WITH HER KNEES DRAWN UP , Lena rested 136 VICTORY.
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