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. A trio of fitting envoys perhaps—... Victory: An Island Tale - Page 367by Joseph Conrad - 1915 - 462 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1921
...whose hat just came up to his governor's shoulder. "Do you see them?" Heyst whispered into the girl's ear. "Here they are, the envoys of the outer world....not let it go. He continued, bitterly playful: "I don't know. I don't think so. There is a strain in me which lays me under an insensate obligation to... | |
 | JOSEP CONRAD - 1921
...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. A trio of fitting envoys perhaps—but what about the welcome? Suppose I were armed, could I shoot those two down where they... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1921
...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. A trio of fitting envoys perhaps—but what about the welcome? Suppose I were armed, could I shoot those two down where they... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1923
...whose hat just came up to his governor's shoulder. "Do you see them?" Heyst whispered into the girl's ear. "Here they are, the envoys of the outer world....not let it go. He continued, bitterly playful: "I don't know. I don't think so. There is a strain in me which lays me under an insensate obligation to... | |
 | Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford - 1921
...whose hat just came up to his governor's shoulder. "Do you see them?" Heyst whispered into the girl's ear. "Here they are, the envoys of the outer world....not let it go. He continued, bitterly playful: "I don't know. I don't think so. There is a strain in me which lays me under an insensate obligation to... | |
 | Wilson Follett - 1915 - 111 pages
...Heyst of these two and their enchained and primitive servitor Pedro. "Here they are before you—evil intelligence, instinctive savagery, arm in arm. The...about the welcome? Suppose I were armed, could I shoot down those two where they stand?" Later Jones is moved to explain: "... in one way I am . . . the world... | |
 | Robert D. Hamner - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 273 pages
...suggested by Heyst's description to Lena when she sees them for the first time from her bungalow: '. . . Here they are before you - evil intelligence, instinctive...savagery arm in arm. The brute force is at the back...'. But the three desperadoes do not become symbols of these qualities. There are other similarly explicit... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1929 - 396 pages
...whose hat just came up to his governor's shoulder. "Do you see them?" Heyst whispered into the girl's ear. "Here they are, the envoys of the outer world....not let it go. He continued, bitterly playful: "I don't know. I don't think so. There is a strain in me which lays me under an insensate obligation to... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1921
...whose hat just came up to his governor's sioulder. "Do you see them?" Heyst whispered into the girl's ear. "Here they are, the envoys of the outer -world....not let it go. He continued, bitterly playful: "I don't know. I don't think so. There is a strain in me which lays me under an insensate obligation to... | |
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