...worst that could be said was that she was a steamship and therefore, perhaps, not entitled to that Mind loyalty which. . . . However, it's no use trying to put a gloss on what even at the time I myself hah* suspected to be a caprice. It was in an Eastern port. She was an Eastern ship, inasmuch as then...

...of disparaging references to steamships. In The Shadow-Line, the narrator leaves a good berth on a "ship of which the worst that could be said was that...therefore, perhaps, not entitled to that blind loyalty . . ." and adds that such a ship would be, "if it had not been for her internal propulsion, worthy...

...as domestic narratives that explore the tensions between captains and their troublesome "wives."18 I This is not a marriage story. It wasn't so bad as...the time I myself half suspected to be a caprice. —Joseph Conrad, The Shadow-Line (1916-17) Conrad critics have long noted his antipathy to steamers,...

...mankind had streamed that way. It is the charm of universal experience from which one expects an uncommon or personal sensation - a bit of one's own. One goes...the time I myself half suspected to be a caprice. then she belonged to that port. She traded among dark islands on a blue reef-scarred sea, with the...

...could put a finger I threw up my job chucked my berth left the ship of which the worst that could Ix" said was that she was a steamship and therefore, perhaps,...on what even at the time I myself half suspected to lx" a caprice. It was in an Eastern port. She was an Eastern ship, inasmuch as then she belonged to...