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... telling him that they wished to render his stay among the islands as pleasant as possible , and that they were ready to assist him in his plans , and so on , and after receiving Heyst's thanks - you know the usual kind of conversation ...
... telling him that they wished to render his stay among the islands as pleasant as possible , and that they were ready to assist him in his plans , and so on , and after receiving Heyst's thanks - you know the usual kind of conversation ...
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... tell- ing you all this . I suppose seeing a thoroughly white man made it impossible to keep my trouble to myself . Words can't do it justice ; but since I've told you so much I may as well tell you more . Listen . This morning on board ...
... tell- ing you all this . I suppose seeing a thoroughly white man made it impossible to keep my trouble to myself . Words can't do it justice ; but since I've told you so much I may as well tell you more . Listen . This morning on board ...
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... telling you . The Tesmans washed their hands of it . The Government cancelled those famous contracts . The talk died out , and presently it was remarked here and there that Heyst had faded completely away . He had become invisible , as ...
... telling you . The Tesmans washed their hands of it . The Government cancelled those famous contracts . The talk died out , and presently it was remarked here and there that Heyst had faded completely away . He had become invisible , as ...
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... telling you ? Aha ! There was nothing in it . I knew it . But what I would like to know is what be- came of that ... tell us that Heyst had not paid perhaps three visits altogether to his " establishment . ' establishment . " This ...
... telling you ? Aha ! There was nothing in it . I knew it . But what I would like to know is what be- came of that ... tell us that Heyst had not paid perhaps three visits altogether to his " establishment . ' establishment . " This ...
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... as dead as Julius Cæsar , ' I cried . ' In perament see nothing worth holding on to , Heyst . ' sion to tell done with facts , ' says he , putting his visits altoge 28 hand to his helmet sharply with one of his short 20 ...
... as dead as Julius Cæsar , ' I cried . ' In perament see nothing worth holding on to , Heyst . ' sion to tell done with facts , ' says he , putting his visits altoge 28 hand to his helmet sharply with one of his short 20 ...
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ain't Alfuro arms asked believe boat breath brig bungalow buran chair cheroot Chinaman clairvoyance course dark Davidson door doorway eyes face faint feeling fellow felt frightened gaze gentleman gharry girl glance gleam gone governor gunwale hand hanging head hear heard Heyst hotel-keeper island Java Sea jetty Jones knew Lena light lips looked Malay Martin matter mean mind Morrison moustaches moved movement murmured mysterious never night Number once paused Pedro perhaps physiognomy quiet Ricardo round Samburan sarong sauceboat Schom Schomberg schooner seemed shadow shoulders side sight silence smile sort 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 understand verandah voice walked Wang watched wharf What's whispered woman wonder words Zangiacomo
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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 94 - For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
Page 3 - The Tropical Belt Coal Company went into liquidation. The world of finance is a mysterious world in which, incredible as the fact may appear, evaporation precedes liquidation. First the capital evaporates, and then the company goes into liquidation. These are very unnatural physics, but they account for the persistent inertia of Heyst, at which we "out there" used to laugh among ourselves — but not inimically.
Page 92 - This shall be my defence against life," he had said to himself with a sort of inward consciousness that for the son of his father there was no other worthy alternative. He became a waif and stray, austerely, from conviction, as others do through drink, from vice, from some weakness of character — with deliberation, as others do in despair. This, stripped of its facts, had been Heyst's life up to that disturbing night. Next day, when he saw the girl called...
Page 219 - Of the stratagems of life the most cruel is the consolation of love — the most subtle, too; for the desire is the bed of dreams. He turned the pages of the little volume, "Storm and Dust," glancing here and there at the broken text of reflections, maxims, short phrases, enigmatical sometimes and sometimes eloquent.
Page 173 - He reflected, too, with the sense of making a discovery, that this primeval ancestor is not easily suppressed. The oldest voice in the world is just the one that never ceases to speak. If anybody could have silenced its imperative echoes, it should have been Heyst's father, with his contemptuous, inflexible negation of all effort; but apparently he could not. There was in the son a lot of that first ancestor who, as soon as he could uplift his muddy frame from the celestial mould, started inspecting...
Page 201 - And this was true. He was still under the fresh sortilege of their common life, the surprise of novelty, the flattered vanity of his possession of this woman; for a man must feel that, unless he has ceased to be masculine. Her eyes moved in his direction, rested on him, then returned to their stare into the deeper gloom at the foot of the straight tree-trunks, whose spreading crowns were slowly withdrawing their shade. The warm air stirred slightly about her motionless head. She would not look at...
Page 113 - Schomberg's argument was met by Mr. Jones's statement that one must do something to kill time. Killing time was not forbidden. For the rest, being in a communicative mood, Mr. Jones said languidly and in a voice indifferent, as if issuing from a tomb, that he depended on himself, as if the world were still one great, wild jungle without law.
Page 187 - Do you know what I was thinking of?" he asked. "No," she said. Her tone betrayed always a shade of anxiety, as though she were never certain how a conversation with him would end. She leaned on the guard-rail by his side. "No," she repeated. "What was it?" She waited. Then, rather with reluctance than shyness, she asked: "Were you thinking of me?" "I was wondering when you would come out," said Heyst, still without looking at the girl — to whom, after several experimental essays in combining detached...
Page 175 - That very night he died in his bed, so quietly that they found him in his usual attitude of sleep, lying on his side, one hand under his cheek, and his knees slightly bent. He had not even straightened his legs. His son buried the silenced destroyer of systems, of hopes, of beliefs. He observed that the death of that bitter contemner of life did not trouble the flow of life's stream, where men and women go by thick as dust, revolving and jostling one another like figures cut out of cork and weighted...