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" 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... "
Victory - Page 188
by Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 385 pages
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Victory

Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 440 pages
...is even less in me than I make out, because the very scorn is falling away from me year after year. I have never been so amused as by that episode in...eyes fixed upon her; and as he kept silent, she said uneasily — for she didn't know what his silences might mean: " And so you lived with that friend...
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VICTORY

JOSEP CONRAD - 1921 - 534 pages
...From the point of view of the supplicant, the danger to be conjured was something like the end of the IV WITH her knees drawn up, Lena rested her elbows...eyes fixed upon her; and as he kept silent, she said uneasily—for she didn't know what his silences mighft mean: "And so you lived with that friend—that...
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Victory

Joseph Conrad - 1923 - 446 pages
...is even less in me than I make out, because the very scorn is falling away from me year after year. I have never been so amused as by that episode in...seem to have an idea. He was a strange being without need*. She felt his eyes fixed upon her; and as he kept silent, she said uneasily — for she didn't...
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The Works of Joseph Conrad: The shadow line

Joseph Conrad - 1923 - 444 pages
...her innermost depths » an irresistible desire togive lieFself up to him more com- J pletelyr^y__some act of absolute sacrifice. This was ' something of...eyes fixed upon her; and as he kept silent, she said uneasily—for she didn't know what his silences might mean: " And so you lived with that friend—that...
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The Works of Joseph Conrad, Volume 15

Joseph Conrad - 1925 - 442 pages
...common life, the surprise of novelty, ( the flattered vanity of his possession of this woman; for j a man must feel that, unless he has ceased to be masculine....something of which he did not seem to have an idea. He waa a strange being without needs. She felt his eyes fixed upon her; and as he kept silent, she said...
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Modernism, Metaphysics, and Sexuality

Debrah Raschke - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 248 pages
...Samburan Island. It is within this context then that Lena becomes totally devoted to Heyst. Desiring "to give herself up to him more completely, by some act of absolute sacrifice" (201), she attempts to surrender who she is (what she shamefully calls her baser passions) to please...
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The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad, Volume 15

Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 432 pages
...only know that he who 1 forms a tie is lost. The germ of corruption has entered linto his soul." 1 Heyst's tone was light, with the flavour of playfulness...eyes fixed upon her; and as he kept silent, she said uneasily — for she didn't know what his silences might mean: " And so you lived with that friend...
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Victory, an Island Tale

Joseph Conrad - 1929 - 430 pages
...of corruption has entered into his soul." Heyst's tone was light, with the flavour of playf ulness which seasoned all his speeches and seemed to be of...without needs. She felt his eyes fixed upon her; and as lie kept silent, she said uneasily — for she didn't know what his silences might mean: "And so you...
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