VictorySet in the islands of the Malay Archipelago, Victory tells the story of a disillusioned Swede, Axel Heyst, who rescues Lena, a young English musician, from the clutches of a brutish German hotel owner. Seeking refuge at Heyst's remote island retreat on Samburan, the couple is soon besieged by three villains dispatched by the enraged hotelier. The arrival on the island paradise of this trio of fiends sets off a terrifying series of events that ultimately ends in catastrophe. |
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... there mysteriously , and coming up on deck again with a face on which nothing could be read , would as likely as not ... there was dead : He had died in the night . I don't remember ever being so moved by the desolate end of a complete ...
... there mysteriously , and coming up on deck again with a face on which nothing could be read , would as likely as not ... there was dead : He had died in the night . I don't remember ever being so moved by the desolate end of a complete ...
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... there was not the slightest resemblance between them . All I am certain of in their personal relation to each other is that cruel pinch on the upper part of the arm . That I am sure I have seen ! There could be no mistake . I was in a ...
... there was not the slightest resemblance between them . All I am certain of in their personal relation to each other is that cruel pinch on the upper part of the arm . That I am sure I have seen ! There could be no mistake . I was in a ...
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... There is , from that point of view , a deplorable lack of concentration in coal . Now , if a coal- mine could be put into one's waistcoat pocket -- but it can't ! At the same time , there is a fascination in coal , the supreme commodity ...
... There is , from that point of view , a deplorable lack of concentration in coal . Now , if a coal- mine could be put into one's waistcoat pocket -- but it can't ! At the same time , there is a fascination in coal , the supreme commodity ...
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... There was seldom enough wind to blow a feather along . On most evenings of the year Heyst could have sat outside with a naked candle to read one of the books left him by his late father . It was not a mean store . But he never did that ...
... There was seldom enough wind to blow a feather along . On most evenings of the year Heyst could have sat outside with a naked candle to read one of the books left him by his late father . It was not a mean store . But he never did that ...
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... There was a coal - mine there , with an outcrop in the hillside less than five hundred yards from the rickety wharf and the impos- ing blackboard . The company's object had been to get hold of all the outcrops on tropical islands and ...
... There was a coal - mine there , with an outcrop in the hillside less than five hundred yards from the rickety wharf and the impos- ing blackboard . The company's object had been to get hold of all the outcrops on tropical islands and ...
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ain't Alfuro arms asked believe boat breath brig bungalow buran chair cheroot chimæras Chinaman clairvoyance course dark Davidson door doorway dunnage eyes face faint feeling fellow felt frightened gaze gentleman gharry girl glance gleam gone governor gunwale hand hanging head heard Heyst hotel-keeper island Java Sea jetty Jones knew Lena light lips looked Malay Martin matter mean mind Morrison moustaches moved movement murmured mysterious never night Number once paused Pedro perhaps physiognomy quiet Ricardo round Samburan sarong sauceboat Schom Schomberg schooner seemed shadow shoulders side sight silence smile sort sound Sourabaya speak stare stood strange suddenly surprised Swede table d'hôte talk tell Tesmans There's thing thought tion told tone Tropical Belt Coal turned verandah voice walked Wang watched wharf What's whispered woman wonder words Zangiacomo
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Page 381 - Ah, Davidson, woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!
Page 186 - Funny position, wasn't it? The boredom came later, when we lived together on board his ship. I had, in a moment of inadvertence, created for myself a tie. How to define it precisely I don't know. One gets attached in a way to people one has done something for. But is that friendship? I am not sure what it was. I only know that he who forms a tie is lost. The germ of corruption has entered into his soul.
Page 378 - ... into the sanctuary of his innermost heart — for ever ! The flush of rapture flooding her whole being broke out in a smile of innocent, girlish happiness ; and with that divine radiance on her lips she breathed her last, triumphant, seeking for his glance in the shades of death.
Page 158 - Both these white men looked on native life as a mere play of shadows. A play of shadows the dominant race could walk through unaffected and disregarded in the pursuit of its incomprehensible aims and needs.
Page 204 - Of the stratagems of life the most cruel is the consolation of love — the most subtle, too; for the desire is the bed of dreams.
Page 101 - 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 she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage. And, timid in her corner, she ventured to...
Page 188 - Excellent fellow," Heyst responded, with a readiness that she did not expect. "But it was a weakness on my part. I really didn't want to, only he wouldn't let me off, and I couldn't...