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... Wang was not a common coolie . He had been a servant to white men before . The agreement between him and Heyst consisted in the exchange of a few words on the day when the last batch of the mine coolies was leaving Samburan . Heyst ...
... Wang was not a common coolie . He had been a servant to white men before . The agreement between him and Heyst consisted in the exchange of a few words on the day when the last batch of the mine coolies was leaving Samburan . Heyst ...
Page 168
... Wang came round the house , and standing below , raised up his yellow , thin face . " All finish ? " he asked ... Wang unemotion- ally , and marched off , turning his back on the wharf and the great world beyond , represented by the ...
... Wang came round the house , and standing below , raised up his yellow , thin face . " All finish ? " he asked ... Wang unemotion- ally , and marched off , turning his back on the wharf and the great world beyond , represented by the ...
Page 169
... Wang had invited them . But this was the only occasion when any sound louder than the buzzing of insects had troubled the profound silence of the clearing . The natives were never invited again . Wang not only knew how to live according ...
... Wang had invited them . But this was the only occasion when any sound louder than the buzzing of insects had troubled the profound silence of the clearing . The natives were never invited again . Wang not only knew how to live according ...
Page 170
... Wang falling across the page , and the sound of a rough , low voice uttering the Malay word " makan , " would force him to climb out to a meal . Wang in his native province in China might have been an aggressively , sensitively genial ...
... Wang falling across the page , and the sound of a rough , low voice uttering the Malay word " makan , " would force him to climb out to a meal . Wang in his native province in China might have been an aggressively , sensitively genial ...
Page 171
... Wang's gardening and of these precautions — there was nothing else to look at - was amused at the thought that he , in his own person , represented the market for its prod- uce . The Chinaman had found several packets of seeds in the ...
... Wang's gardening and of these precautions — there was nothing else to look at - was amused at the thought that he , in his own person , represented the market for its prod- uce . The Chinaman had found several packets of seeds in the ...
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Alfuro arms asked believe boat breath bungalow chair cheroot chimæras Chinaman course dark Davidson door doorway doubt dunnage eyes face faint feel feet fellow felt frightened gaze gentleman gharry girl glance gone governor gunwale hand head heard Heyst hotel-keeper island Java Sea jetty Jones JOSEPH CONRAD knees knew laugh Lena light lips looked Lord Jim Malay matter mean mind MODERN LIBRARY Morrison moved movement murmured mysterious never night Number paused Pedro perhaps Ricardo roll of thunder round Samburan Schom Schomberg schooner seemed seen shadow shoulders side sight silence smile sort soul sound Sourabaya speak stare stood strange suddenly surprised Swede table d'hôte talk tell Tesmans There's thing thought tion told tone Tropical Belt Coal trouble turned verandah voice Wang watched wharf What's whispered woman wonder words Zangiacomo
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Page 288 - Ah, Davidson, woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!
Page 299 - PRESCOTT, WILLIAM H. The Conquest of Mexico and The Conquest of Peru.
Page x - This bestial apparition and a certain enormous buck nigger encountered in Haiti only a couple of months afterwards have fixed my conception of blind, furious, unreasoning rage, as manifested in the human animal, to the end of my days. Of the nigger I used to dream for years afterwards.
Page 128 - Are we likely to be seen on our way?" "No, unless by native craft," said Schomberg. Ricardo nodded, satisfied. Both these white men looked on native life as a mere play of shadows. A play of shadows the dominant race could walk through unaffected and disregarded in the pursuit of its incomprehensible aims and needs. No. Native craft did not count, of course. It was an empty, solitary part of the sea, Schomberg expounded further. Only the Ternate mail-boat crossed that region about the 8th of every...
Page 161 - ... encounters of a world in which love itself rests as much on antagonism as on attraction. His mental attitude was that of a man looking this way and that on a piece of writing which he is unable to decipher, but which may be big with some revelation. He didn't know what to say. All he found to add wa« "I don't even understand what I have done or left undone to distress you like this.
Page 71 - For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
Page 286 - Exulting, she saw herself extended on the bed, in a black dress, and profoundly at peace; while, stooping over her with a kindly, playful smile, he was ready to lift her up in his firm arms and take her into the sanctuary of his innermost heart — for ever! The flush of rapture flooding her whole being broke out in a smile of innocent, girlish happiness; and with that divine radiance on her lips she breathed her last, triumphant, seeking for his glance in the shades of death. XIV "YES, Excellency...
Page 300 - THE POEMS AND PLAYS OF TENNYSON. 643. DEWEY, JOHN. Intelligence in the Modern World: John Dewey's Philosophy.
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Page 147 - Apparently it was too long for me." " Well, you were thinking of me, anyhow. I am glad of it. Do you know, it seems to me, somehow, that if you were to stop thinking of me I shouldn't be in the world at all!