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Page xi
... give my readers a wrong impression , since a marked incongruity between a man and his surroundings is often a very mis- leading circumstance . We became very friendly for a time and I would not like to expose him to unpleasant ...
... give my readers a wrong impression , since a marked incongruity between a man and his surroundings is often a very mis- leading circumstance . We became very friendly for a time and I would not like to expose him to unpleasant ...
Page xii
... or even at me ( he would not even look up but kept his eyes fixed on the deck ) but more as if communing in a low voice with his familiar devil . Now and then he would give me a glance and make the hairs xii AUTHOR'S NOTE.
... or even at me ( he would not even look up but kept his eyes fixed on the deck ) but more as if communing in a low voice with his familiar devil . Now and then he would give me a glance and make the hairs xii AUTHOR'S NOTE.
Page xiii
Joseph Conrad. he would give me a glance and make the hairs of his stiff little moustache stir quaintly . His eyes were green ' and to this day every cat I see reminds me of the exact contour of his face . What he was travelling for or ...
Joseph Conrad. he would give me a glance and make the hairs of his stiff little moustache stir quaintly . His eyes were green ' and to this day every cat I see reminds me of the exact contour of his face . What he was travelling for or ...
Page xiv
... give to Ricardo . The reader need not be told that I have not forgotten him , though . My contact with the faithful Pedro was much shorter and my observation of him was less complete but incomparably more anxious . It ended in a sudden ...
... give to Ricardo . The reader need not be told that I have not forgotten him , though . My contact with the faithful Pedro was much shorter and my observation of him was less complete but incomparably more anxious . It ended in a sudden ...
Page 13
... Give me fever . Give me plague . They are diseases . One gets over them . But I am being murdered . I am being murdered by - the Portuguese . The gang here downed me at last among them . I am to have my throat cut the day after to ...
... Give me fever . Give me plague . They are diseases . One gets over them . But I am being murdered . I am being murdered by - the Portuguese . The gang here downed me at last among them . I am to have my throat cut the day after to ...
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