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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... gave a most gruesome significance . Our invasion must have displeased him be- cause he got off the chairs brusquely and walked out leav- ing with me an indelibly weird impression of his thin shanks . One of the men with me said that the ...
... gave a most gruesome significance . Our invasion must have displeased him be- cause he got off the chairs brusquely and walked out leav- ing with me an indelibly weird impression of his thin shanks . One of the men with me said that the ...
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... gave him a week's grace , and then proposed to sell the brig at auction . This meant ruin for Morrison ; and when Heyst hailed him across the street in his usual courtly tone , the week was nearly out . Heyst crossed over , and said ...
... gave him a week's grace , and then proposed to sell the brig at auction . This meant ruin for Morrison ; and when Heyst hailed him across the street in his usual courtly tone , the week was nearly out . Heyst crossed over , and said ...
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... gave one of his courtly bows , and declared that he was touched by his friendly proceedings . " I am not alluding to this trifling amount which you decline to take , " he went on , giving a shake to Davidson's hand . “ But I am touched ...
... gave one of his courtly bows , and declared that he was touched by his friendly proceedings . " I am not alluding to this trifling amount which you decline to take , " he went on , giving a shake to Davidson's hand . “ But I am touched ...
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... gave him an inclination of her sallow head and inconti- nently sat down behind a sort of raised counter , facing the door , with a mirror and rows of bottles at her back . Her hair was very elaborately done with two ringlets on the left ...
... gave him an inclination of her sallow head and inconti- nently sat down behind a sort of raised counter , facing the door , with a mirror and rows of bottles at her back . Her hair was very elaborately done with two ringlets on the left ...
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... gave her an appearance of listening intently . Perhaps she was really listening , but Schomberg must have been finishing his sleep in some distant part of the house . The silence was profound , and lasted long enough to become startling ...
... gave her an appearance of listening intently . Perhaps she was really listening , but Schomberg must have been finishing his sleep in some distant part of the house . The silence was profound , and lasted long enough to become startling ...
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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...