Lord Jim (Paperbound)

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Contents

Section 23
242
Section 24
249
Section 25
259
Section 26
266
Section 27
273
Section 28
282
Section 29
288
Section 30
295

Section 9
101
Section 10
112
Section 11
128
Section 12
133
Section 13
143
Section 14
156
Section 15
170
Section 16
175
Section 17
187
Section 18
197
Section 19
204
Section 20
218
Section 21
226
Section 22
233
Section 31
303
Section 32
309
Section 33
320
Section 34
330
Section 35
337
Section 36
344
Section 37
352
Section 38
361
Section 39
369
Section 40
379
Section 41
385
Section 42
393
Section 43
401
Section 44
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Page 3 - HE WAS an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull.
Page 50 - Why I longed to go grubbing into the deplorable details of an occurrence which, after all, concerned me no more than as a member of an obscure body of men held together by a community of inglorious toil and by fidelity to a certain standard of conduct, I can't explain. You may call it an unhealthy curiosity if you like ; but I have a distinct notion I wished to find something. Perhaps, Unconsciously, I hoped I would find that something, some profound and redeeming cause, some merciful explanation,...
Page 213 - This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man he will never on his heap of mud keep still. He want to be so, and again he want to be so. . . ." He moved his hand up, then down.
Page 339 - at our backs,' you had said. ' We want a belief in its necessity and its justice, to make a worthy and conscious sacrifice of our lives. Without it the sacrifice is only forgetfulness, the way of offering is no better than the way to perdition.
Page 80 - I didn't know how much of it he believed himself. I didn't know what he was playing up to — if he was playing up to anything at all — and I suspect he did not know either; for it is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.
Page 216 - At that moment it was difficult to believe in Jim's existence — starting from a country parsonage, blurred by crowds of men as by clouds of dust, silenced by the clashing claims of life and death in a material world — but his imperishable reality came to me with a convincing, with an irresistible force! I saw...
Page 51 - Was it for my own sake that I wished to find some shadow of an excuse for that young fellow whom I had never seen before, but whose appearance alone added a touch of personal concern to the thoughts suggested by the knowledge of his weakness - made it a thing of mystery and terror - like a hint of a destructive fate ready for us all whose youth - in its day - had resembled his youth? I tear that such was the secret motive of my prying.
Page 215 - The whisper of his conviction seemed to open before me a vast and uncertain expanse, as of a crepuscular horizon on a plain at dawn — or was it, perchance, at the coming of the night? One had not the courage to decide; but it was a charming and deceptive light, throwing the impalpable poetry of its dimness over pitfalls — over graves.
Page 245 - There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
Page 5 - Jim's father possessed such certain knowledge of the Unknowable as made for the righteousness of people in cottages without disturbing the ease of mind of those whom an unerring Providence enables to live in mansions.

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