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Page 16
And perhaps it was some sort of enchantment . There are more spells than your
commonplace magicians ever dreamed of . Roughly speaking , a circle with a
radius of eight hundred miles drawn round a point in North Borneo was in Heyst's
...
And perhaps it was some sort of enchantment . There are more spells than your
commonplace magicians ever dreamed of . Roughly speaking , a circle with a
radius of eight hundred miles drawn round a point in North Borneo was in Heyst's
...
Page 17
Perhaps these were his attempts to break out . so , they were failures . The
enchantment must have been an unbreakable one . The manager — the man
who heard the exclamation - had been so impressed by the tone , fervour ,
rapture , what ...
Perhaps these were his attempts to break out . so , they were failures . The
enchantment must have been an unbreakable one . The manager — the man
who heard the exclamation - had been so impressed by the tone , fervour ,
rapture , what ...
Page 19
Perhaps that was it . A man who could propose , even playfully , to quench old
McNab's thirst must have been an utopist , a pursuer of chimæras ; for of
downright irony Heyst was not prodigal . And , may be , this was the reason why
he was ...
Perhaps that was it . A man who could propose , even playfully , to quench old
McNab's thirst must have been an utopist , a pursuer of chimæras ; for of
downright irony Heyst was not prodigal . And , may be , this was the reason why
he was ...
Page 22
Then he would stick the pencil back and snap the elastic on with inflexible finality
; but he never began the squeezing . Some men grumbled at him . He was
spoiling the trade . Well , perhaps to a certain extent ; not much . Most of the
places he ...
Then he would stick the pencil back and snap the elastic on with inflexible finality
; but he never began the squeezing . Some men grumbled at him . He was
spoiling the trade . Well , perhaps to a certain extent ; not much . Most of the
places he ...
Page 26
Morrison was swiftly reproachful in his answer , and there came a pause ,
Morrison perhaps interrogating his conscience , and Heyst preserving a mien of
unperturbed , polite interest . “ I prayed like a child , of course . I believe in
children ...
Morrison was swiftly reproachful in his answer , and there came a pause ,
Morrison perhaps interrogating his conscience , and Heyst preserving a mien of
unperturbed , polite interest . “ I prayed like a child , of course . I believe in
children ...
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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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