Victory: An Island Tale, Volume 2Louis Conard, 1916 |
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Page 29
... Samburan - the silence of the great heat that seems pregnant with fatal issues , like the silence of ardent thought . Heyst remained alone in the big room . The girl seeing him take up a book , had retreated to her chamber . Heyst sat ...
... Samburan - the silence of the great heat that seems pregnant with fatal issues , like the silence of ardent thought . Heyst remained alone in the big room . The girl seeing him take up a book , had retreated to her chamber . Heyst sat ...
Page 52
... Samburan ; more solid than the point , whose long outlined slope melted into its own unfathomable shadow blurring the dim sheen on the bay . The stream from the pipe broke like shattered glass on the boat's gunwale . Its loud splashing ...
... Samburan ; more solid than the point , whose long outlined slope melted into its own unfathomable shadow blurring the dim sheen on the bay . The stream from the pipe broke like shattered glass on the boat's gunwale . Its loud splashing ...
Page 56
... Samburan turned into dense shadow the point of land and the wharf itself , and gave a dark solidity to the unshimmering water extending to the last faint trace of light away to the west . Heyst stared at the guests whom the renounced ...
... Samburan turned into dense shadow the point of land and the wharf itself , and gave a dark solidity to the unshimmering water extending to the last faint trace of light away to the west . Heyst stared at the guests whom the renounced ...
Page 70
... Samburan asserted itself as on any other night . Everything was as before , except - Heyst became aware of it suddenly- that for a whole minute , perhaps , with his hand on the back of the girl's chair and within a foot of her person ...
... Samburan asserted itself as on any other night . Everything was as before , except - Heyst became aware of it suddenly- that for a whole minute , perhaps , with his hand on the back of the girl's chair and within a foot of her person ...
Page 71
... Samburan would have made peeping absurd ; nor was such a thing in her character . This was not a movement of curiosity , but of downright alarm - the continued distress and fear of the dream . The night could not have been very far ...
... Samburan would have made peeping absurd ; nor was such a thing in her character . This was not a movement of curiosity , but of downright alarm - the continued distress and fear of the dream . The night could not have been very far ...
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