VictoryDoubleday, Page, 1921 - 412 pages |
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... seen ! There could be no mistake . I was in a too idle mood to im- agine such a gratuitous barbarity . It may have been playfulness , yet the girl jumped up as if she had been stung by a wasp . It may have been playfulness . Yet I saw ...
... seen ! There could be no mistake . I was in a too idle mood to im- agine such a gratuitous barbarity . It may have been playfulness , yet the girl jumped up as if she had been stung by a wasp . It may have been playfulness . Yet I saw ...
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... seen there . It just touched Saigon , and he was likewise seen there once . Perhaps these were his attempts to break out . If so , they were failures . The enchantment must have been an un- breakable one . The manager - the man who ...
... seen there . It just touched Saigon , and he was likewise seen there once . Perhaps these were his attempts to break out . If so , they were failures . The enchantment must have been an un- breakable one . The manager - the man who ...
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... seen how we live . Now you shall have the opportunity to see how some of us end ; for it is the end , for me . I can't deceive myself any longer . You see it , don't you ? " Morrison had pulled himself together , but one felt the ...
... seen how we live . Now you shall have the opportunity to see how some of us end ; for it is the end , for me . I can't deceive myself any longer . You see it , don't you ? " Morrison had pulled himself together , but one felt the ...
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... seen him . " As I have said , we were not much interested ; but Schomberg , of course , could not understand that . He was grotesquely dense . Whenever three people came together in his hotel , he took good care that Heyst should be ...
... seen him . " As I have said , we were not much interested ; but Schomberg , of course , could not understand that . He was grotesquely dense . Whenever three people came together in his hotel , he took good care that Heyst should be ...
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... seen approach- ing a group of his customers . He was obviously in high glee . He squared his manly chest with great importance . 66 Gentlemen , I have news of him . Who ? Why , that Swede . He is still on Samburan . He's never been away ...
... seen approach- ing a group of his customers . He was obviously in high glee . He squared his manly chest with great importance . 66 Gentlemen , I have news of him . Who ? Why , that Swede . He is still on Samburan . He's never been away ...
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Page 200 - I am not sure what it was. I only know that he who forms a tie is lost. The germ of corruption has entered into his soul.
Page xv - 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 174 - You still believe in something, then?" he said in a clear voice, which had been growing feeble of late. "You believe in flesh and blood, perhaps? A full and equable contempt would soon do away with that, too. But since you have not attained to it, I advise you to cultivate that form of contempt which is called pity. It is perhaps the least difficult — always remembering that you, too, if you are anything, are as pitiful as the rest, yet never expecting any pity for yourself.
Page 3 - THERE is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds. It is the reason, I believe, why some people allude to coal as "black diamonds." Both these commodities represent wealth; but coal is a much less portable form of property. There is, from that point of view, a deplorable lack of concentration in coal. Now, if a coalmine could be put into one's waistcoat pocket—but it can't!
Page 3 - Victory— that we all live in an "age in which we are camped like bewildered travellers in a garish, unrestful hotel...
Page 167 - 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.
Page 74 - At last they steadied in contact, but by that time, say some fifteen minutes from the moment when they sat down, the "interval" came to an end. So much for their eyes. As to the conversation, it had been perfectly insignificant, because naturally they had nothing to say to each other. Heyst had been interested by the girl's physiognomy. Its expression was neither simple nor yet very clear. It was not distinguished — that could not be expected — but the features had more fineness than those of...
Page 106 - Latin races; and though his eyes strayed about irresolutely, yet his swollen, angry features awakened in the miserable woman over whom he had been tyrannising for years a fear for his precious carcass, since the poor creature had nothing else but that to hold on to in the world. She knew him well; but she did not know him altogether. The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage. And, timid in her corner, she ventured to...
Page 361 - And who knows if it isn't really my duty?" he began again, as if he had not heard her disjointed words at all. "It may be — my duty to you, to myself. For why should I put up with the humiliation of their secret menaces? Do you know what the world would say?
Page 91 - Three years of such companionship at that plastic and impressionable age were bound to leave in the boy a profound mistrust of life. The young man learned to reflect, which is a destructive process, a reckoning of the cost.