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 9
... moustaches had grown to really noble proportions , a certain disreputable white man fastened upon him an epithet . Putting down with a shaking hand a long glass emptied of its contents - paid for by Heyst - he said , with that ...
... moustaches had grown to really noble proportions , a certain disreputable white man fastened upon him an epithet . Putting down with a shaking hand a long glass emptied of its contents - paid for by Heyst - he said , with that ...
Page 16
... moustaches , at the tired eyes of the man sitting opposite him . Who the devil was he ? What was he , Morrison , doing there , talking like this ? Morrison knew no more of Heyst than the rest of us trading in the Archipelago did . Had ...
... moustaches , at the tired eyes of the man sitting opposite him . Who the devil was he ? What was he , Morrison , doing there , talking like this ? Morrison knew no more of Heyst than the rest of us trading in the Archipelago did . Had ...
Page 35
... moustaches , polite manner , and all - the complete Heyst , even to the kindly , sunken eyes on which there still rested the shadow of Morrison's death . Naturally , it was Davidson who had given him a lift out of his forsaken island ...
... moustaches , polite manner , and all - the complete Heyst , even to the kindly , sunken eyes on which there still rested the shadow of Morrison's death . Naturally , it was Davidson who had given him a lift out of his forsaken island ...
Page 59
... moustaches . I don't know whether it was his delicacy or his obesity which prevented Davidson from clambering upon the wharf . He stood up in the boat , and , above him , Heyst stooped low with urbane smiles , thanking him and ...
... moustaches . I don't know whether it was his delicacy or his obesity which prevented Davidson from clambering upon the wharf . He stood up in the boat , and , above him , Heyst stooped low with urbane smiles , thanking him and ...
Page 81
... were of all sorts . But she was astonished almost more by the near presence of the man himself , by this largely bald head , by the white brow , the sunburnt cheeks , the long , horizontal moustaches of crinkly bronze hair , by VICTORY 81.
... were of all sorts . But she was astonished almost more by the near presence of the man himself , by this largely bald head , by the white brow , the sunburnt cheeks , the long , horizontal moustaches of crinkly bronze hair , by VICTORY 81.
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