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 61
... turned on his back , flung his arms crosswise on the broad , hard bed , and lay still , open- eyed under the mosquito net , till daylight entered his room , bright- ened swiftly , and turned to unfailing sunlight . He got up then , went ...
... turned on his back , flung his arms crosswise on the broad , hard bed , and lay still , open- eyed under the mosquito net , till daylight entered his room , bright- ened swiftly , and turned to unfailing sunlight . He got up then , went ...
Page 79
... turned into a man or of an insolent spectre on leave from Hades endowed with skin and bones and a subtle power of terror . Pedro with his fangs , his tangled beard and queer stare of his little bear's eyes was , by comparison ...
... turned into a man or of an insolent spectre on leave from Hades endowed with skin and bones and a subtle power of terror . Pedro with his fangs , his tangled beard and queer stare of his little bear's eyes was , by comparison ...
Page 81
... turned into a banker , faced Ricardo , a rather nasty , slow - moving cat turned into a croupier . By contrast , the other faces round that table , anything between twenty and thirty , must have looked like collected samples of ...
... turned into a banker , faced Ricardo , a rather nasty , slow - moving cat turned into a croupier . By contrast , the other faces round that table , anything between twenty and thirty , must have looked like collected samples of ...
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