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And I made up my mind to let the word stand , in the same hopeful spirit in which some simple citizen of Old Rome would have " accepted the Omen . " The second point on which I wish to offer a remark is the existence in the novel ) of a ...
And I made up my mind to let the word stand , in the same hopeful spirit in which some simple citizen of Old Rome would have " accepted the Omen . " The second point on which I wish to offer a remark is the existence in the novel ) of a ...
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Nobody had ever suspected her of having a mind , I mean even a little of it , I mean any at all . One was inclined to think of her as an Itan automaton , a very plain dummy , with an arrangement for bowing the head at times and smiling ...
Nobody had ever suspected her of having a mind , I mean even a little of it , I mean any at all . One was inclined to think of her as an Itan automaton , a very plain dummy , with an arrangement for bowing the head at times and smiling ...
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The person I was thinking of when I made up my mind to invoke your assistance is Mrs. Schomberg . " “ I have talked with her , " interjected Davidson . “ Oh ! You ? Yes , I hoped she would find means to " “ But she didn't tell me much ...
The person I was thinking of when I made up my mind to invoke your assistance is Mrs. Schomberg . " “ I have talked with her , " interjected Davidson . “ Oh ! You ? Yes , I hoped she would find means to " “ But she didn't tell me much ...
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And though he had made up his mind to retire from the world in hermit fashion , yet he was irrationally moved by this sense of loneliness which had come to him in the hour of renunciation . It hurt him . Nothing is more painful than the ...
And though he had made up his mind to retire from the world in hermit fashion , yet he was irrationally moved by this sense of loneliness which had come to him in the hour of renunciation . It hurt him . Nothing is more painful than the ...
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His mind , cool , alert , watched it sink there with a sort of vague concern at the absurdity of the occupation , till it rested at the bottom , deep down , where our unexpressed longings lie . Y " You are English , of course ?
His mind , cool , alert , watched it sink there with a sort of vague concern at the absurdity of the occupation , till it rested at the bottom , deep down , where our unexpressed longings lie . Y " You are English , of course ?
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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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