 Somebody above answered in a leisurely tone: "A steady little draught from the northward." Then after a pause added in a mutter: "Pitch dark." "Aye, dark enough," murmured Lingard. He must do something. Now. At once. The world was waiting. The world full...  The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows - Page 229by Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 381 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Conrad - 1924 - 496 pages
...spoke," she interrupted. His eyes wandered downward following the line of her shoulder. — "Of me — of me!" he repeated. All this was said almost in whispers....Lingard. "Quiet enough if you like to call it so," he answered.1 "But if you only put your head outside the door you'll hear them all on the quarter-deck... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 494 pages
...to the open skylight. "On deck there! Any wind?" All was still for a moment. Somebody above anewered in a leisurely tone: "A steady little draught from...with serenity at everyone in turn. "All quiet?" asked Lyigard. "Quiet enough if you like to call it so," he answered. "But if you only put your head outside... | |
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...Lingard understands this perfectly. "When I am on board her," he says, "the brig and I are one"; but, "If I lost her I would have no standing room on the...for my feet. You don't understand this. You can't," he tells Mrs. Travers, who does not pretend to (190, 191). Once, when he leaves the brig, "It seemed... | |
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