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Page 7
What influenced my decision most were the obscure promptings of that pagan
residuum of awe and wonder which lurks still at the bottom of our old humanity .
Victory was the last word I had written in peace time . It was the last literary
thought ...
What influenced my decision most were the obscure promptings of that pagan
residuum of awe and wonder which lurks still at the bottom of our old humanity .
Victory was the last word I had written in peace time . It was the last literary
thought ...
Page 41
The enchanted Heyst ! Had he at last broken the spell ? Had he died ? We were
too indifferent to wonder over - much . You see we had on the whole liked him
well enough . And liking is not sufficient to keep going the interest one takes in ...
The enchanted Heyst ! Had he at last broken the spell ? Had he died ? We were
too indifferent to wonder over - much . You see we had on the whole liked him
well enough . And liking is not sufficient to keep going the interest one takes in ...
Page 62
It was as exciting , for the mere wonder of it , as trying to converse with a
mechanism . A smile played about the fat features of Davidson ; the smile of a
man making an amusing experiment . He spoke again to her : “ But the other
members of ...
It was as exciting , for the mere wonder of it , as trying to converse with a
mechanism . A smile played about the fat features of Davidson ; the smile of a
man making an amusing experiment . He spoke again to her : “ But the other
members of ...
Page 69
Indeed , the wonder was that they had been left alone so long . The drowsy
afternoon was slipping by . Footsteps and voices resounded on the veranda - I
beg pardon , the piazza ; the scraping of chairs , the ping of a smitten bell .
Customers ...
Indeed , the wonder was that they had been left alone so long . The drowsy
afternoon was slipping by . Footsteps and voices resounded on the veranda - I
beg pardon , the piazza ; the scraping of chairs , the ping of a smitten bell .
Customers ...
Page 88
It was immense ! The insight he had obtained almost frightened him ; he couldn't
get over his wonder at knowing more of the real Mrs. Schomberg than anybody in
the Islands , including Schomberg himself . She was a miracle of dissimulation .
It was immense ! The insight he had obtained almost frightened him ; he couldn't
get over his wonder at knowing more of the real Mrs. Schomberg than anybody in
the Islands , including Schomberg himself . She was a miracle of dissimulation .
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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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