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 77
... looked remarkably like a corpse for a moment . This was bad enough ; but when he opened them again , it was almost a worse trial for Schomberg's nerves . The spectral intensity of that glance , fixed on the hotel - keeper ( and this was ...
... looked remarkably like a corpse for a moment . This was bad enough ; but when he opened them again , it was almost a worse trial for Schomberg's nerves . The spectral intensity of that glance , fixed on the hotel - keeper ( and this was ...
Page 84
... looked expectant . With him Schomberg exchanged at least twenty words every day . He was infinitely more communicative than his patron . At times he looked very much like an ordinary human being of his class ; and he seemed to be in an ...
... looked expectant . With him Schomberg exchanged at least twenty words every day . He was infinitely more communicative than his patron . At times he looked very much like an ordinary human being of his class ; and he seemed to be in an ...
Page 277
... looked at her closely , and seemed to read some awful intelligence in her eyes . At the moment when her eye- lids fell as if smitten from above by an invisible power , he snatched her up bodily out of the chair , and disregarding an ...
... looked at her closely , and seemed to read some awful intelligence in her eyes . At the moment when her eye- lids fell as if smitten from above by an invisible power , he snatched her up bodily out of the chair , and disregarding an ...
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