The shadow lineDoubleday, Page, 1923 |
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... remarked easily that the fellow had no doubt gone off to look after my old job . The Chief Steward , who had been leaning against the wall , brought his face of an unhappy goat nearer to the table and addressed us dolefully . His object ...
... remarked easily that the fellow had no doubt gone off to look after my old job . The Chief Steward , who had been leaning against the wall , brought his face of an unhappy goat nearer to the table and addressed us dolefully . His object ...
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... remarked Captain Giles - superfluously , I thought . " Very in- sulting . You haven't offended him in some way , have you ? " " Never spoke to him in my life , " I said grumpily . " Can't imagine what he means by competing . He has been ...
... remarked Captain Giles - superfluously , I thought . " Very in- sulting . You haven't offended him in some way , have you ? " " Never spoke to him in my life , " I said grumpily . " Can't imagine what he means by competing . He has been ...
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... remarked , with a sudden laugh : " I know who's jolly thankful at having seen the last of you . " I guessed that he meant the steward . The fellow had borne himself to me in a sulkily frightened manner at the last . I expressed my ...
... remarked , with a sudden laugh : " I know who's jolly thankful at having seen the last of you . " I guessed that he meant the steward . The fellow had borne himself to me in a sulkily frightened manner at the last . I expressed my ...
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... launch waiting for me too . But I won't feel really at peace till I have that ship of mine out in the Indian Ocean . " He remarked casually that from Bankok to the Indian Ocean was a pretty long step . And this THE SHADOW - LINE 43.
... launch waiting for me too . But I won't feel really at peace till I have that ship of mine out in the Indian Ocean . " He remarked casually that from Bankok to the Indian Ocean was a pretty long step . And this THE SHADOW - LINE 43.
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... remarked to me : " You seem to have a most respectable lot of seamen . " Not only were they consistently sober , but they did not even want to go ashore . Care was taken to expose them as little as possible to the sun . They were ...
... remarked to me : " You seem to have a most respectable lot of seamen . " Not only were they consistently sober , but they did not even want to go ashore . Care was taken to expose them as little as possible to the sun . They were ...
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answer ashore asked Bankok believe breath breeze Burns cabin calm Captain Ellis Captain Giles chief mate Chief Steward command coolies crew cried dark dead deck deputy-Neptune doctor door exclaimed expected eyes face faint feeling fellow felt forecastle Frenchy Gambril gave gaze glance gone Gulf of Siam Haiphong Hamilton hand Harbour Office head hear heard helm Indian Ocean JOSEPH CONRAD late captain laugh light looked mainsail Malay mate matter mind moved murmured mysterious never night one's ormolu perhaps poop port punkah quarter-deck quietly quinine rail Ransome Ransome's sails saloon seaman second mate seemed SHADOW-LINE ship ship's shore sick side silence sort sound stare steer stood suddenly suppose taffrail tell There's thing thought tiffin tone took trouble turned verandah voice waiting walked wind word
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Page 132 - You'll be glad enough presently if you can keep going even at that rate," he retorted with his air of conscious virtue. "And there's another thing: a man should stand up to his bad luck, to his mistakes, to his conscience, and all that sort of thing. Why — what else would you have to fight against?
Page 40 - I had never suspected her existence. I didn't know how she looked, I had barely heard her name, and yet we were indissolubly united for a certain portion of our future, to sink or swim together! A sudden passion of anxious impatience rushed through my veins and gave me such a sense of the intensity of existence as I have never felt before or since. I discovered how much of a seaman I was, in heart, in mind, and, as it were, physically — a man exclusively of sea and ships; the sea the only world...
Page vii - The world of the living contains enough marvels and mysteries as it is; marvels and mysteries acting upon our emotions and intelligence in ways so inexplicable that it would almost justify the conception of life as an enchanted state.
Page 49 - At the first glance I saw that she was a high-class vessel, a harmonious creature in the lines of her fine body, in the proportioned tallness of her spars. Whatever her age and her history, she had preserved the stamp of her origin. She was one of those craft that, in virtue of their design and complete finish, will never look old. Amongst her companions moored to the bank, and all bigger than herself, she looked like a creature of high breed — an Arab steed in a string of cart-horses.
Page 100 - The words that passed between us were few and puerile in regard of the situation. I had to force myself to look them in the face. I expected to meet reproachful glances. There were none. The expression of suffering in their eyes was indeed hard enough to bear. But that they couldn't help. For the rest, I ask myself whether it was the temper of their souls or the sympathy of their imagination that made them so wonderful, so worthy of my undying regard.
Page 4 - Yes. One goes on. And the time, too, goes on — till one perceives ahead a shadow-line warning one that the region of early youth, too, must be left behind. This is the period of life in which such moments of which I have spoken are likely to come. What moments? Why, the moments of boredom, of weariness, of dissatisfaction. Rash moments. I mean moments when the still young are inclined to commit rash actions, such as getting married -uddenly or else throwing up a job for no reason.
Page 4 - World politics did not trouble him at all, but he had a great occult power amongst his own people. It was all one to us who owned the ship. He had to employ white men in the shipping part of his business, and many of those he so employed had never set eyes on him from the first to the last day. I myself saw him but once, quite accidentally on a wharf — an old, dark little man blind in one eye, in a snowy robe and yellow slippers. He was having his hand severely kissed by a crowd of Malay pilgrims...
Page 50 - My rapid glance ran over her, enveloped, appropriated the form concreting the abstract sentiment of my command. A lot of details perceptible to a seaman struck my eye vividly in that instant. For the rest, I saw her disengaged from the material conditions of her being. The shore to which she was moored was as if it did not exist. What were to me all the countries of the globe? In all the parts of the world washed by navigable waters our relation to each other would be the same — and more intimate...
Page viii - Primarily the aim of this piece of writing was the presentation of certain facts which certainly were associated with the change from youth, care-free and fervent, to the more self-conscious and more poignant period of maturer life.
Page 106 - It's the only period of my life in which I attempted to keep a diary. No, not the only one. Years later, in conditions of moral isolation, I did put down on paper the thoughts and events of a score of days. But this was the first time. I don't remember how it came about or how the pocket book and.