The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad: The shadow lineDoubleday, Page & Company, 1921 |
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... expects an uncommon or personal sensation - a bit of one's own . One goes on recognising the landmarks of the pre- decessors , excited , amused , taking the hard luck and the good luck together — the kicks and the halfpence , as the ...
... expects an uncommon or personal sensation - a bit of one's own . One goes on recognising the landmarks of the pre- decessors , excited , amused , taking the hard luck and the good luck together — the kicks and the halfpence , as the ...
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... expected to run all over the town after me . " Who wants you to ? " I cried . And then my eyes became opened to the inwardness of things and speeches the triviality of which had been so baffling and tiresome . I told him I wanted to ...
... expected to run all over the town after me . " Who wants you to ? " I cried . And then my eyes became opened to the inwardness of things and speeches the triviality of which had been so baffling and tiresome . I told him I wanted to ...
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... expected me to faint on the spot . But I was in too much of a hurry for emotional displays . My feelings were already in such a whirl that this staggering information did not seem to make the slightest differ- ence . It fell into the ...
... expected me to faint on the spot . But I was in too much of a hurry for emotional displays . My feelings were already in such a whirl that this staggering information did not seem to make the slightest differ- ence . It fell into the ...
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... expected ; beyond my imaginings , outside all reasonable expectations , and even notwithstanding the existence of some sort of obscure intrigue to keep it away from me . It is true that the intrigue was feeble , but it helped the ...
... expected ; beyond my imaginings , outside all reasonable expectations , and even notwithstanding the existence of some sort of obscure intrigue to keep it away from me . It is true that the intrigue was feeble , but it helped the ...
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... expected me to get up , burst into a laugh , slap him on the back , and vanish from the cabin . There was an odd stress in the situation which began to make me uncomfortable . I tried to react against 54 THE SHADOW - LINE.
... expected me to get up , burst into a laugh , slap him on the back , and vanish from the cabin . There was an odd stress in the situation which began to make me uncomfortable . I tried to react against 54 THE SHADOW - LINE.
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Page 53 - It struck me that this quietly staring man whom I was watching, both as if he were myself and somebody else, was not exactly a lonely figure. He had his place in a line of men whom he did not know, of whom he had never heard; but who were fashioned by the same influences, whose souls in relation to their humble life's work had no secrets for him.
Page vii - The world of the living contains enough marvels and mysteries as it is : marvels and mysteries acting upon our emotions and intelligence in ways so inexplicable that it would almost justify the conception of life as an enchanted state.
Page 62 - I was already the man in command. My sensations could not be like those of any other man on board. In that community I stood, like a king in his country, in a class all by myself. I mean an hereditary king, not a mere elected head of a state. I was brought there to rule by an agency as remote from the people and as inscrutable almost to them as the Grace of God.
Page 49 - At the first glance I saw that she was a high-class vessel, a harmonious creature in the lines of her fine body, in the proportioned tallness of her spars. Whatever her age and her history, she had preserved the stamp of her origin. She was one of those craft that, in virtue of their design and complete finish, will never look old. Amongst her companions moored to the bank, and all bigger than herself, she looked like a creature of high breed — an Arab steed in a string of cart-horses.
Page 100 - The words that passed between us were few and puerile in regard of the situation. I had to force myself to look them in the face. I expected to meet reproachful glances. There were none. The expression of suffering in their eyes was indeed hard enough to bear. But that they couldn't help. For the rest, I ask myself whether it was the temper of their souls or the sympathy of their imagination that made them so wonderful, so worthy of my undying regard.
Page 4 - World politics did not trouble him at all, but he had a great occult power amongst his own people. It was all one to us who owned the ship. He had to employ white men in the shipping part of his business, and many of those he so employed had never set eyes on him from the first to the last day. I myself saw him but once, quite accidentally on a wharf — an old, dark little man blind in one eye, in a snowy robe and yellow slippers. He was having his hand severely kissed by a crowd of Malay pilgrims...
Page 50 - My rapid glance ran over her, enveloped, appropriated the form concreting the abstract sentiment of my command. A lot of details perceptible to a seaman struck my eye vividly in that instant. For the rest, I saw her disengaged from the material conditions of her being. The shore to which she was moored was as if it did not exist. What were to me all the countries of the globe? In all the parts of the world washed by navigable waters our relation to each other would be the same — and more intimate...
Page viii - Primarily the aim of this piece of writing was the presentation of certain facts which certainly were associated with the change from youth, care-free and fervent, to the more self-conscious and more poignant period of maturer life.
Page 4 - This is not a marriage story. It wasn't so bad as that with me. My action, rash as it was, had more the character of divorce - almost of desertion. For no reason on which a sensible person could put a finger I threw up my job - chucked my berth - left the ship of which the worst that could be said was that she was a steamship and therefore, perhaps, not entitled to that blind loyalty which . . . However, it's no use trying to put a gloss on what even at the time I myself half suspected to be a caprice.
Page 106 - It's the only period of my life in which I attempted to keep a diary. No, not the only one. Years later, in conditions of moral isolation, I did put down on paper the thoughts and events of a score of days. But this was the first time. I don't remember how it came about or how the pocket book and.