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Page x
... matter of proportion . There should have been a remedy for that sort of thing . And yet there is no remedy . Behind this minute instance of life's hazards Heyst sees the power of blind destiny . Besides , Heyst in his fine detach- ment ...
... matter of proportion . There should have been a remedy for that sort of thing . And yet there is no remedy . Behind this minute instance of life's hazards Heyst sees the power of blind destiny . Besides , Heyst in his fine detach- ment ...
Page xii
... matter . For the most part he lay on deck aft as it were at my feet , and raising himself from time to time on his elbow would talk about himself and go on talking , not exactly to me or even at me ( he would not even look up but kept ...
... matter . For the most part he lay on deck aft as it were at my feet , and raising himself from time to time on his elbow would talk about himself and go on talking , not exactly to me or even at me ( he would not even look up but kept ...
Page xiv
... matter of fact we were in sight of the low , pestilential , mangrove - lined coast of our desti- nation . The excellent Father Superior mentioned to me with an air of immense commiseration : " The poor man has left a young daughter ...
... matter of fact we were in sight of the low , pestilential , mangrove - lined coast of our desti- nation . The excellent Father Superior mentioned to me with an air of immense commiseration : " The poor man has left a young daughter ...
Page 9
... matter was more complex . One day Heyst turned up in Timor . Why in Timor , of all places in the world , no one knows . Well , he was mooning about Delli , that highly pestilential place , possibly in search of some undiscovered facts ...
... matter was more complex . One day Heyst turned up in Timor . Why in Timor , of all places in the world , no one knows . Well , he was mooning about Delli , that highly pestilential place , possibly in search of some undiscovered facts ...
Page 22
... matter of fact , many of us did not hear of this death till months afterward - from Schomberg , who dis- liked Heyst gratuitously and made up a piece of sinister whispered gossip : " That's what comes of having anything to do with that ...
... matter of fact , many of us did not hear of this death till months afterward - from Schomberg , who dis- liked Heyst gratuitously and made up a piece of sinister whispered gossip : " That's what comes of having anything to do with that ...
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