Victory: An Island TaleA story of rescue and violent tragedy set in the Malayan archipelago, 'Victory' combines high adventure with sensitive portrayal of three drifters. |
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Page 13
... Give me fever . Give me plague . They are diseases . One gets over them . But I am being murdered . I am being murdered by the Portuguese . The gang here downed me at last among them . I am to have my throat cut the day after to ...
... Give me fever . Give me plague . They are diseases . One gets over them . But I am being murdered . I am being murdered by the Portuguese . The gang here downed me at last among them . I am to have my throat cut the day after to ...
Page 19
... give up . I never really believed I could . Don't reckon on that , Heyst . I have robbed you . ' " " Poor Morrison actually laid his head on the cabin table , and remained in that crushed attitude while Heyst talked to him soothingly ...
... give up . I never really believed I could . Don't reckon on that , Heyst . I have robbed you . ' " " Poor Morrison actually laid his head on the cabin table , and remained in that crushed attitude while Heyst talked to him soothingly ...
Page 21
... give the island gossip a chance . And you know how kindly the world is in its comments on what it does not understand . A rumour sprang out that Heyst , having obtained some mysterious hold on Mor- rison , had fastened himself on him ...
... give the island gossip a chance . And you know how kindly the world is in its comments on what it does not understand . A rumour sprang out that Heyst , having obtained some mysterious hold on Mor- rison , had fastened himself on him ...
Page 48
... give him the facts , though unable to explain them , of course . " What was there to explain ? " wondered Davidson dubiously . " He took a fancy to that fiddle - playing girl , and- " " And she to him , apparently , " I suggested ...
... give him the facts , though unable to explain them , of course . " What was there to explain ? " wondered Davidson dubiously . " He took a fancy to that fiddle - playing girl , and- " " And she to him , apparently , " I suggested ...
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... give it to you ? That's good , very good . She's more resourceful than one would give her credit for . " " Women often are , " remarked Davidson . The strangeness from which he had suffered , merely be- cause his interlocutor had ...
... give it to you ? That's good , very good . She's more resourceful than one would give her credit for . " " Women often are , " remarked Davidson . The strangeness from which he had suffered , merely be- cause his interlocutor had ...
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