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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... live , to be sure , because I'd be afraid to kill myself ; but you would have done a thousand times worse than killing a body . You told me you had been always alone , you had never had a dog , even . Well , then , I won't be in ...
... live , to be sure , because I'd be afraid to kill myself ; but you would have done a thousand times worse than killing a body . You told me you had been always alone , you had never had a dog , even . Well , then , I won't be in ...
Page 136
... , with whom 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.
... , with whom 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.
Page 272
... lives - all the lives but mine ! What you want is a man , a master that will let you put the heel of your shoe on his neck ... live for yourself , too - not for a Swedish baron . They make a con- venience of people like you and me . A ...
... lives - all the lives but mine ! What you want is a man , a master that will let you put the heel of your shoe on his neck ... live for yourself , too - not for a Swedish baron . They make a con- venience of people like you and me . A ...
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