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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... feel the edge of a sharp knife at its throat . The unchanging Man of history is wonderfully adap- table cloth by his power of endurance and in his ca- pacity for detachment . The fact seems to be that the play of his destiny is too ...
... feel the edge of a sharp knife at its throat . The unchanging Man of history is wonderfully adap- table cloth by his power of endurance and in his ca- pacity for detachment . The fact seems to be that the play of his destiny is too ...
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... feel it . For why should you offer " Heyst inclined his head , as from respect for a convic- tion in which he could not share . But he stuck to his point by muttering that in the presence of an odious fact like this , it was natural ...
... feel it . For why should you offer " Heyst inclined his head , as from respect for a convic- tion in which he could not share . But he stuck to his point by muttering that in the presence of an odious fact like this , it was natural ...
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... feeling was ever scorned by Heyst . But he was incapable of outward cor- diality of manner , and he felt acutely his defect . Con- summate politeness is not the right tonic for an emotional collapse . They must have had , both of them ...
... feeling was ever scorned by Heyst . But he was incapable of outward cor- diality of manner , and he felt acutely his defect . Con- summate politeness is not the right tonic for an emotional collapse . They must have had , both of them ...
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... feeling , I think , though of course he had no more polish than the rest of us . We were naturally a hail - fellow - well - met crowd , with standards of our own - no worse , I daresay , than other people's ; but polish was not one of ...
... feeling , I think , though of course he had no more polish than the rest of us . We were naturally a hail - fellow - well - met crowd , with standards of our own - no worse , I daresay , than other people's ; but polish was not one of ...
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... feeling , and asked , wishing to make clear his friend- liness , and not knowing what else to say : " You haven't run short of stores or anything like that ? " Heyst smiled and shook his head . " No , no . Nothing of the kind . We are ...
... feeling , and asked , wishing to make clear his friend- liness , and not knowing what else to say : " You haven't run short of stores or anything like that ? " Heyst smiled and shook his head . " No , no . Nothing of the kind . We are ...
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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...