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... talk about himself and go on talking , not exactly to me or even at me ( he would not even look up but kept his eyes fixed on the deck ) but more as if communing in a low voice with his familiar devil . Now and then he would give me a ...
... talk about himself and go on talking , not exactly to me or even at me ( he would not even look up but kept his eyes fixed on the deck ) but more as if communing in a low voice with his familiar devil . Now and then he would give me a ...
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... talking of a " great stride forward for these regions . " The convinced wave of the hand which accompanied the ... talk . From the first there was some difficulty in making him out . He was not a traveller . A traveller arrives and ...
... talking of a " great stride forward for these regions . " The convinced wave of the hand which accompanied the ... talk . From the first there was some difficulty in making him out . He was not a traveller . A traveller arrives and ...
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... talking . Morrison was ' one of us . ' He was owner and master of the Capricorn , trading brig , and was understood to be doing well with her , except for the drawback of too much altruism . He was the dearly beloved friend of a ...
... talking . Morrison was ' one of us . ' He was owner and master of the Capricorn , trading brig , and was understood to be doing well with her , except for the drawback of too much altruism . He was the dearly beloved friend of a ...
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... talk in the street . ' 99 The haggard Morrison followed obediently into a sombre , cool hovel which he would have disdained to enter at any other time . He was distracted . He did not know what he was doing . You could have led him over ...
... talk in the street . ' 99 The haggard Morrison followed obediently into a sombre , cool hovel which he would have disdained to enter at any other time . He was distracted . He did not know what he was doing . You could have led him over ...
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... talking like this ? Morrison knew no more of Heyst than the rest of us trading in the Archipelago did . Had the Swede suddenly risen and hit him on the nose , he could not have been taken more aback than when this stranger , this ...
... talking like this ? Morrison knew no more of Heyst than the rest of us trading in the Archipelago did . Had the Swede suddenly risen and hit him on the nose , he could not have been taken more aback than when this stranger , this ...
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Page xvii - I went in there only to ask for a bottle of lemonade I have not to this day the slightest idea what in my appearance or actions could have roused his terrible ire. It became manifest to me less than two minutes after I had set eyes on him for the first time, and though immensely surprised of course I didn't stop to think it out. I took the nearest short cut — through the wall. This bestial apparition and a certain enormous buck nigger encountered in Haiti only a couple of months afterwards, have...
Page 3 - THERE is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds. It is the reason, I believe, why some people allude to coal as "black diamonds." Both these commodities represent wealth; but coal is a much less portable form of property. There is, from that point of view, a deplorable lack of concentration in coal. Now, if a coalmine could be put into one's waistcoat pocket — but it can't!
Page 74 - At last they steadied in contact, but by that time, say some fifteen minutes from the moment when they sat down, the "interval" came to an end. So much for their eyes. As to the conversation, it had been perfectly insignificant, because naturally they had nothing to say to each other. Heyst had been interested by the girl's physiognomy. Its expression was neither simple nor yet very clear. It was not distinguished — that could not be expected — but the features had more fineness than those of...
Page 106 - He was beside himself in his lurid, heavy, Teutonic manner, so unlike the picturesque, lively rage of the Latin races; and though his eyes strayed about irresolutely, yet his swollen, angry features awakened in the miserable woman over whom he had been tyrannising for years a fear for his precious carcass, since the poor creature had nothing else but that to hold on to in the world. She knew him well; but she did not know him altogether. The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom...
Page 91 - Three years of such companionship at that plastic and impressionable age were bound to leave in the boy a profound mistrust of life. The young man learned to reflect, which is a destructive process, a reckoning of the cost.
Page 329 - Do you see them?" Heyst whispered into the girl's ear. "Here they are, the envoys of the outer world. Here they are before you — evil intelligence, instinctive savagery, arm in arm. The brute force is at the back.
Page 116 - Pedro, at any rate, was just a simple, straightforward brute, if a murderous one. There was no mystery about him, nothing uncanny, no suggestion of a stealthy, deliberate wild-cat turned into a man, or of an insolent spectre on leave from Hades, endowed with skin and bones and a subtle power of terror.
Page 399 - The very sting of death was in her hands; the venom of the viper in her paradise, extracted, safe in her possession — and the viper's head all but lying under her heel.
Page 31 - Hermit. This was the latest of the more or less witty labels applied to Heyst during his aimless pilgrimage in this section of the tropical belt, where the inane clacking of Schomberg's tongue vexed our ears. But apparently Heyst was not a hermit by temperament. The sight of his kind was not invincibly odious to him. We must believe this, since for some reason or other he did come out from his retreat for a while. Perhaps it was only to see whether there were any letters for him at the Tesmans. I...
Page 359 - ... her curiously, paused, and then went on : "I venture to think that God has nothing to do with such a hospitality and with such a guest!" She had jumped to her feet to react against the numbness, to discover whether her body would obey her will. It did. She could stand up, and she could move her arms freely. Though no physiologist, she concluded that all that sudden numbness was in her head, not in her limbs. Her fears assuaged, she thanked God for it mentally, and to Heyst murmured a protest:...