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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... hear that one morning I was told without any particular emotion by the padrone of the schooner that the " Rich man " down there was dead : He had died in the night . I don't remember ever being so moved by the desolate end of a complete ...
... hear that one morning I was told without any particular emotion by the padrone of the schooner that the " Rich man " down 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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... hear the last of it . We must keep it dark . " From quite other motives , among which his native deli- cacy was the principal , Heyst was even more anxious to bind himself to silence . A gentleman would naturally shrink from the part of ...
... hear the last of it . We must keep it dark . " From quite other motives , among which his native deli- cacy was the principal , Heyst was even more anxious to bind himself to silence . A gentleman would naturally shrink from the part of ...
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... hear of this death till months afterward - from Schomberg , who dis- liked Heyst gratuitously and made up a piece of sinister whispered gossip : " That's what comes of having anything to do with that tellow . He squeezes you dry like a ...
... hear of this death till months afterward - from Schomberg , who dis- liked Heyst gratuitously and made up a piece of sinister whispered gossip : " That's what comes of having anything to do with that tellow . He squeezes you dry like a ...
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... hear of it he seized him heartily by the hand , 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 ...
... hear of it he seized him heartily by the hand , 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 ...
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... hear . He called brutally : " Boy ! " The Chinaman approached , and after referring him to the white man by a nod the hotel - keeper departed , mut- tering to himself . Davidson heard him gnash his teeth as he went . Davidson sat alone ...
... hear . He called brutally : " Boy ! " The Chinaman approached , and after referring him to the white man by a nod the hotel - keeper departed , mut- tering to himself . Davidson heard him gnash his teeth as he went . Davidson sat alone ...
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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...