VictoryDoubleday, Page, 1921 |
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Page xii
... walked out of the room . It was in a little hotel in the Island of St. Thomas in the West Indies ( in the year '75 ) where we found him one hot afternoon extended on three chairs , all alone in the loud buzzing of flies to which his ...
... walked out of the room . It was in a little hotel in the Island of St. Thomas in the West Indies ( in the year '75 ) where we found him one hot afternoon extended on three chairs , all alone in the loud buzzing of flies to which his ...
Page 72
... walked up the central passage . Several of the women , by this time , had found anchorage here and there among the occupied tables . They talked to the men , leaning on their elbows , and suggesting funnily - if it hadn't been for the ...
... walked up the central passage . Several of the women , by this time , had found anchorage here and there among the occupied tables . They talked to the men , leaning on their elbows , and suggesting funnily - if it hadn't been for the ...
Page 92
... walked almost unwittingly into the straggling group of Zangia- como's performers . It was a shock to him , on coming out of his brown study , to find the girl so near him , as if one waking suddenly should see the figure of his dream ...
... walked almost unwittingly into the straggling group of Zangia- como's performers . It was a shock to him , on coming out of his brown study , to find the girl so near him , as if one waking suddenly should see the figure of his dream ...
Page 105
... walked about swearing and fuming for the purpose of screwing his courage up to the sticking point . " Hang me if I ought not to go now , at once , this minute , into his bedroom , and tell him to be off - him and that secretary of his ...
... walked about swearing and fuming for the purpose of screwing his courage up to the sticking point . " Hang me if I ought not to go now , at once , this minute , into his bedroom , and tell him to be off - him and that secretary of his ...
Page 110
... walked about slowly , in and out of the room and the verandah , thoughtful , waiting for his two guests to go to bed . Then suddenly he approached them , militarily , his chest thrown out , his voice curt and soldierly . " Hot night ...
... walked about slowly , in and out of the room and the verandah , thoughtful , waiting for his two guests to go to bed . Then suddenly he approached them , militarily , his chest thrown out , his voice curt and soldierly . " Hot night ...
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Page 410 - 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 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 199 - Funny position, wasn't it? The boredom came later, when we lived together on board his ship. I had, in a moment of inadvertence, created for myself a tie. How to define it precisely I don't know. One gets attached in a way to people one has done something for. But is that friendship? 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 94 - For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
Page 167 - 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 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 3 - Victory— that we all live in an "age in which we are camped like bewildered travellers in a garish, unrestful hotel...
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...