...apprehension as to his personal safety, and wished to be concealed. However, Mariani told me a long time after (when he came on board one day to dun my steward...thing that breeds yelling panics and good little quiet villanies ; it's the true shadow of calamity. Did I believe in a miracle ? and why did I desire it...

...days. His lean bronzed head, with white moustaches, looked fine and calm on the pillow, like the-head of a war-worn soldier with a childlike soul, had it...thing that breeds yelling panics and good little quiet villanies ; it's the true shadow of calamity. Did I believe in a miracle ? and why did I desire it...

...cause, some merciful explanation, some convincing shadow of an excuse. I see well enough now that 1 hoped for the impossible — for the laying of what...thing that breeds yelling panics and good little quiet villanies ; it's the true shadow of calamity. Did I believe in a miracle ? and why did I desire it...

...find that something, some profound and redeeming cause, some merciful explanation^epme conI vincing shadow of an excuse. I see well enough now that I...thing that breeds yelling panics and good little quiet villanies ; it's the true shadow of calamity. Did I believe in a miracle ? and why did I desire it...

...creation, of the f uneasy doubt uprising .like a mist, secret and gnawing ' like a worm, and more shilling than the certitude of death— the doubt of the sovereign...against; it is the thing that breeds yelling panics and gocd little quiet villainies; it's the true shadow of calamity. Did I believe in a miracle? and why...

...Marlow, even the shadow of mistrust in 'the sovereign power enthroned in a fixed standard of conduct ... is the hardest thing to stumble against; it is the...quiet villainies; it's the true shadow of calamity' (pp. 50-1). That this is scarcely exaggerated is demonstrated by the fate of Brierly, the captain whom...

...convincing shadow of an excuse" for Jim's actions. But now Marlow sees thai it was much more than that: "I see well enough now that I hoped for the impossible...sovereign power enthroned in a fixed standard of conduct." Marlow's doubt here about the ultimate basis of the social and moral order is of much the same general...

...solicitous. He invites Jim to dinner and lets him talk. Marlow's efforts to allay through attention to Jim "the doubt of the sovereign power enthroned in a fixed standard of conduct" and to understand his own personhood assume the form of his repeatedly asserting to himself, and to...

...laments the impossibility of ever laying to rest "the most obstinate ghost of man's creation . . . the doubt of the sovereign power enthroned in a fixed standard of conduct" (1/50, emphasis mine). Through Marlow, Conrad resists the notion that the social and moral orders exist...

...excuse." At the time of his storytelling he is aware of how impossible his task was, "the laying of ... the doubt of the sovereign power enthroned in a fixed standard of conduct" (5o). He concedes that he was looking for a miracle; but, he asks, "why did I desire it so ardently?"...