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Page 12
An Island Tale Joseph Conrad. supreme commodity of the age in which we are
camped like bewildered travellers in a garish, unrestful hotel. And I suppose
those two considerations, the practical and the mystical, prevented Heyst —Axel
...
An Island Tale Joseph Conrad. supreme commodity of the age in which we are
camped like bewildered travellers in a garish, unrestful hotel. And I suppose
those two considerations, the practical and the mystical, prevented Heyst —Axel
...
Page 13
Axel Heyst was also a smoker; and when he lounged out on his veranda, with his
cheroot, the last thing before going to bed, he made in the night the same sort of
glow and of the same size as that other one so many miles away. In a sense, the
...
Axel Heyst was also a smoker; and when he lounged out on his veranda, with his
cheroot, the last thing before going to bed, he made in the night the same sort of
glow and of the same size as that other one so many miles away. In a sense, the
...
Page 14
On the nights of full moon the silence around Samburan—the “Round Island” of
the charts— was dazzling; and in the flood of cold light Heyst could see his
immediate surroundings, which had the aspect of an abandoned settlement
invaded by ...
On the nights of full moon the silence around Samburan—the “Round Island” of
the charts— was dazzling; and in the flood of cold light Heyst could see his
immediate surroundings, which had the aspect of an abandoned settlement
invaded by ...
Page 15
Axel Heyst, styled in the prospectus “manager in the tropics,” remained at his post
on Samburan, the No. I coaling-station of the company. And it was not merely a
coaling-station. There was a coal-mine there, with an outcrop in the hillside less ...
Axel Heyst, styled in the prospectus “manager in the tropics,” remained at his post
on Samburan, the No. I coaling-station of the company. And it was not merely a
coaling-station. There was a coal-mine there, with an outcrop in the hillside less ...
Page 16
Heyst did not depart. I met a man once—the manager of the branch of the
Oriental Banking Corporation in Malacca—to whom Heyst exclaimed, in no
connection with anything in particular (it was in the billiardroom of the club): “I am
enchanted ...
Heyst did not depart. I met a man once—the manager of the branch of the
Oriental Banking Corporation in Malacca—to whom Heyst exclaimed, in no
connection with anything in particular (it was in the billiardroom of the club): “I am
enchanted ...
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| Title | Victory: An Island Tale, Volume 1 Volumes 17-18 of Standard Collection of latest copyrighted works by of British and American Authors Standard collection of British and American authors Victory: An Island Tale, Joseph Conrad |
| Author | Joseph Conrad |
| Publisher | Louis Conard, 1916 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 31 Jan 2019 |
| Length | 462 pages |
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