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Page 50
... of the sort that can furnish a house was startlingly novel . It was grotesquely fantastic . It was like a bird owning real property . no more . “ Belongings ? Do you mean chairs and tables ? 50 VICTORY .
... of the sort that can furnish a house was startlingly novel . It was grotesquely fantastic . It was like a bird owning real property . no more . “ Belongings ? Do you mean chairs and tables ? 50 VICTORY .
Page 51
Do you mean chairs and tables ? ” Davidson asked with unconcealed astonishment . Heyst did mean that . “ My poor father died in London . It has been all stored there ever since , " he explained . “ For all these years ?
Do you mean chairs and tables ? ” Davidson asked with unconcealed astonishment . Heyst did mean that . “ My poor father died in London . It has been all stored there ever since , " he explained . “ For all these years ?
Page 55
Not a soul was in sight , not even a China boy — nothing but a lot of painted iron chairs and tables . Solitude , shade , and gloomy silence — and a faint , treacherous breeze which came from under the trees and quite unexpectedly ...
Not a soul was in sight , not even a China boy — nothing but a lot of painted iron chairs and tables . Solitude , shade , and gloomy silence — and a faint , treacherous breeze which came from under the trees and quite unexpectedly ...
Page 56
In the artificial dusk , beyond the levels of shrouded billiard - tables , a white form heaved up from two chairs on which it had been extended . The middle of the day , table d'hôte tiffin once over , was Schomberg's easy time .
In the artificial dusk , beyond the levels of shrouded billiard - tables , a white form heaved up from two chairs on which it had been extended . The middle of the day , table d'hôte tiffin once over , was Schomberg's easy time .
Page 69
Footsteps and voices resounded on the veranda - I beg pardon , the piazza ; the scraping of chairs , the ping of a smitten bell . Customers were turning up . Mrs. Schomberg was begging Davidson hurriedly , but without looking at him ...
Footsteps and voices resounded on the veranda - I beg pardon , the piazza ; the scraping of chairs , the ping of a smitten bell . Customers were turning up . Mrs. Schomberg was begging Davidson hurriedly , but without looking at him ...
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| Title | Victory: An Island Tale, Volume 1 Volume 17 of 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 | 276 pages |
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