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... give to my Lord Jim . I won't even say that I " fail to understand . No ! But once I had occasion to be puzzled and surprised . A friend of mine returning from Italy had talked AUTHOR'S NOTE ix with a lady there who did not.
... give to my Lord Jim . I won't even say that I " fail to understand . No ! But once I had occasion to be puzzled and surprised . A friend of mine returning from Italy had talked AUTHOR'S NOTE ix with a lady there who did not.
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... understand ; and sud- denly the calm sea , the sky without a cloud , appeared formidably insecure in their immobility , as if poised on the brow of yawning destruction . The engineer rebounded vertically full length and collapsed again ...
... understand ; and sud- denly the calm sea , the sky without a cloud , appeared formidably insecure in their immobility , as if poised on the brow of yawning destruction . The engineer rebounded vertically full length and collapsed again ...
Page 37
... understand a man like that hasn't the ghost of a chance when it comes to borrowing clothes . Very well . On he came in hot haste , without a look right or left , passed within three feet of me , and in the innocence of his heart went on ...
... understand a man like that hasn't the ghost of a chance when it comes to borrowing clothes . Very well . On he came in hot haste , without a look right or left , passed within three feet of me , and in the innocence of his heart went on ...
Page 42
... understand what I mean . Nothing more awful than to watch a man who has been found out , not in a crime but in a more than criminal weak- ness . The commonest sort of fortitude prevents us from becoming criminals in a legal sense ; it ...
... understand what I mean . Nothing more awful than to watch a man who has been found out , not in a crime but in a more than criminal weak- ness . The commonest sort of fortitude prevents us from becoming criminals in a legal sense ; it ...
Page 58
... into his own case . The verdict must have been of unmiti- gated guilt , and he took the secret of the evidence with him in that leap into the sea . If I understand anything of men , the matter was no doubt of 58 LORD JIM.
... into his own case . The verdict must have been of unmiti- gated guilt , and he took the secret of the evidence with him in that leap into the sea . If I understand anything of men , the matter was no doubt of 58 LORD JIM.
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 | 407 |
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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.