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... leave the dock at six o'clock to - morrow morning ! " Mr. Powell dipped his pen and began to turn the leaves of the agreement over . ' We must then take his name off , ' he says in a kind of unconcerned sing - song . " What am I to do ...
... leave the dock at six o'clock to - morrow morning ! " Mr. Powell dipped his pen and began to turn the leaves of the agreement over . ' We must then take his name off , ' he says in a kind of unconcerned sing - song . " What am I to do ...
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... leaving him alone with his sea - chest , a sail cloth bag and a few parcels on the pavement about his feet . It was a dark , narrow thoroughfare , he told us . A mean row of houses on the other side looked empty : there wasn't the ...
... leaving him alone with his sea - chest , a sail cloth bag and a few parcels on the pavement about his feet . It was a dark , narrow thoroughfare , he told us . A mean row of houses on the other side looked empty : there wasn't the ...
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... accustomed to take a cottage for the holidays . At this point we were interrupted by Mr. Powell , who declared that he must leave us . The tide was on the turn , he announced , coming away from the window THE FYNES AND THE GIRLFRIEND 39.
... accustomed to take a cottage for the holidays . At this point we were interrupted by Mr. Powell , who declared that he must leave us . The tide was on the turn , he announced , coming away from the window THE FYNES AND THE GIRLFRIEND 39.
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... leaving behind an impression as though we had known him for a long time . The ingenuous way he had told us of his start in life had something to do with putting him on that footing with us . I gave no thought to seeing him again ...
... leaving behind an impression as though we had known him for a long time . The ingenuous way he had told us of his start in life had something to do with putting him on that footing with us . I gave no thought to seeing him again ...
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... leaving me on the road - astounded . " A couple of hours afterwards I returned to the cottage for chess as usual . I saw neither the girl nor Mrs. Fyne then . We had our two games and on parting I warned Fyne that I was called to town ...
... leaving me on the road - astounded . " A couple of hours afterwards I returned to the cottage for chess as usual . I saw neither the girl nor Mrs. Fyne then . We had our two games and on parting I warned Fyne that I was called to town ...
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Page 84 - You seem to have studied the man," I observed. "Studied," repeated Marlow thoughtfully. "No! Not studied. I had no opportunities. You know that I saw him only on that one occasion I told you of. But It may be that a glimpse and no more is the proper way of seeing an individuality...
Page 326 - If you ask me what is an ordinary marital quarrel I will tell you, that it is a difference about nothing; I mean, these nothings which, as Mr. Powell told us when we first met him, shore people are so prone to start a row about, and nurse into hatred from an idle sense of wrong, from perverted ambition, for spectacular reasons too. There are on earth no actors too humble and obscure not to have a gallery, that gallery which envenoms the play by stealthy jeers, counsels of anger, amused comments or...
Page 353 - You say I don't know women. Maybe. It's just as well not to come too close to the shrine. But I have a clear notion of woman. In all of them, termagant, flirt, crank, washerwoman, blue-stocking, outcast and even in the ordinary fool of the ordinary commerce there is something left, if only a spark. And when there is a spark there can always be a flame . . ." He went back into the shadow and sat down again.
Page 340 - And indeed to be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts — all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.
Page 223 - What seemed most awful to her was the elated light in his eyes, the rapacious smile that would come and go on his lips as if he were gloating over her misery. But her misery was iis opportunity and he rejoiced while the tenderest pity seemed to flood his whole being.
Page 50 - It was one of those dewy, clear, starry nights, oppressing our spirit, crushing our pride, by the brilliant evidence of the awful loneliness, of the hopeless obscure insignificance of our globe lost in the splendid revelation of a glittering soulless universe.
Page x - The history of men on this earth since the beginning of ages may be resumed in one phrase of infinite poignancy : They were born, they suffered, they died...
Page 427 - Pairing off is the fate of mankind. And if two beings thrown together, mutually attracted, resist the necessity, fail in understanding and voluntarily stop short of the — the embrace, in the noblest meaning of the word, then they are committing a sin against life, the call of which is simple. Perhaps sacred.
Page 80 - he defended himself. " My way of putting things ! My dear fellow I have merely stripped the rags of business verbiage and financial jargon off my statements. And you are startled ! I am giving you the naked truth. It's true too that nothing lays itself open to the charge of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth. What comes with a shock is admitted with difficulty. But what will you say to the end of his career ? It was of course sensational and tolerably sudden.
Page xii - I have never sinned against the basic feelings and elementary convictions which make life possible to the mass of mankind and, by establishing a standard of judgment, set their idealism free to look for plainer ways, ior higher feelings, for deeper purposes.