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VICTORY AN ISLAND TALE I There is , as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age , a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds . It is the reason , I believe , why some people allude to coal as " black diamonds .
VICTORY AN ISLAND TALE I There is , as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age , a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds . It is the reason , I believe , why some people allude to coal as " black diamonds .
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The Tropical Belt Coal Company went into liquidation . The world of finance is a mysterious world in which , incredible as the fact may appear , evaporation precedes liquidation . First the capital evaporates , and then the company goes ...
The Tropical Belt Coal Company went into liquidation . The world of finance is a mysterious world in which , incredible as the fact may appear , evaporation precedes liquidation . First the capital evaporates , and then the company goes ...
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These were the initials of the Tropical Belt Coal Company , his employers — his late employers , to be precise . According to the unnatural mysteries of the financial world , the T.B.C. Company's capital having evaporated in the course ...
These were the initials of the Tropical Belt Coal Company , his employers — his late employers , to be precise . According to the unnatural mysteries of the financial world , the T.B.C. Company's capital having evaporated in the course ...
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There was a coal - mine there , with an outcrop in the hillside less than five hundred yards from the rickety wharf and the imposing blackboard . The company's object had been to get hold of all the outcrops on tropical islands and ...
There was a coal - mine there , with an outcrop in the hillside less than five hundred yards from the rickety wharf and the imposing blackboard . The company's object had been to get hold of all the outcrops on tropical islands and ...
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There was no danger of any one taking seriously his dream of tropical coal , so what was the use of hurting his feelings ? Thus reasoned men in reputable business offices where he had his entrée as a person who came out East with ...
There was no danger of any one taking seriously his dream of tropical coal , so what was the use of hurting his feelings ? Thus reasoned men in reputable business offices where he had his entrée as a person who came out East with ...
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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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