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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... sort of animation - was an indolent volcano which smoked faintly all day with its head just above the northern horizon , and at night levelled at him , from amongst the clear stars , a dull red glow , expanding and collaps- ing ...
... sort of animation - was an indolent volcano which smoked faintly all day with its head just above the northern horizon , and at night levelled at him , from amongst the clear stars , a dull red glow , expanding and collaps- ing ...
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... sort , quite inky on its unlighted side . But the most conspicuous object was a gigantic black- board raised on two posts and presenting to Heyst , when the moon got over that side , the white letters " T. B. C. Co. " in a row at least ...
... sort , quite inky on its unlighted side . But the most conspicuous object was a gigantic black- board raised on two posts and presenting to Heyst , when the moon got over that side , the white letters " T. B. C. Co. " in a row at least ...
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... sort of enchantment . There are more spells than your commonplace magicians ever dreamed of . Roughly speaking , a circle with a radius of eight hundred miles drawn round a point in North Borneo was in Heyst's case a magic circle . It ...
... sort of enchantment . There are more spells than your commonplace magicians ever dreamed of . Roughly speaking , a circle with a radius of eight hundred miles drawn round a point in North Borneo was in Heyst's case a magic circle . It ...
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... sort of paying guest , but the real truth of the matter was more complex . One day Heyst turned up in Timor . Why in Timor , of all places in the world , no one knows . Well , he was mooning about Delli , that highly pestilential place ...
... sort of paying guest , but the real truth of the matter was more complex . One day Heyst turned up in Timor . Why in Timor , of all places in the world , no one knows . Well , he was mooning about Delli , that highly pestilential place ...
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... sort of curse . There's always a bill or two to meet . " He plunged his hand into his pocket for the famous note - book so well known in the islands , the fetish of his hopes , and fluttered the pages feverishly . " And yet - look ...
... sort of curse . There's always a bill or two to meet . " He plunged his hand into his pocket for the famous note - book so well known in the islands , the fetish of his hopes , and fluttered the pages feverishly . " And yet - look ...
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