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... Jones " and his secretary with the ambiguous name of Ricardo entering the grounds of the hotel . They had been down to the port on some business , and now were returning ; Mr. Jones lank , spare , opening his long legs with angular ...
... Jones " and his secretary with the ambiguous name of Ricardo entering the grounds of the hotel . They had been down to the port on some business , and now were returning ; Mr. Jones lank , spare , opening his long legs with angular ...
Page 104
... Jones " and of the equivocal Ricardo , to his person . One evening , however , after the public rooms of the hotel had become empty , Schomberg made an attempt to grap- ple with the problem in an indirect way . In the distant corner the ...
... Jones " and of the equivocal Ricardo , to his person . One evening , however , after the public rooms of the hotel had become empty , Schomberg made an attempt to grap- ple with the problem in an indirect way . In the distant corner the ...
Page 105
... Jones , lolling back idly in a chair , looked up , Ricardo , as idle , but more upright , made no sign . " Won't you have a drink with me before retiring ? " went on Schomberg , sitting down by the little table . " By all means , " said ...
... Jones , lolling back idly in a chair , looked up , Ricardo , as idle , but more upright , made no sign . " Won't you have a drink with me before retiring ? " went on Schomberg , sitting down by the little table . " By all means , " said ...
Page 106
... Jones . " What is the matter ? " " I don't want any scandal in my place . That's what's the matter . " Schomberg tried to face the situation bravely , but that steady , black stare affected him . And when he glanced aside uncomfortably ...
... Jones . " What is the matter ? " " I don't want any scandal in my place . That's what's the matter . " Schomberg tried to face the situation bravely , but that steady , black stare affected him . And when he glanced aside uncomfortably ...
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... Jones , while Schomberg , dumb and planted heavily in his chair , looked from one to the other , leaning forward a little . " Of course I am that ; but Ricardo attaches too much importance to a social advantage . What I mean , for in ...
... Jones , while Schomberg , dumb and planted heavily in his chair , looked from one to the other , leaning forward a little . " Of course I am that ; but Ricardo attaches too much importance to a social advantage . What I mean , for in ...
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Page 288 - Ah, Davidson, woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!
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Page x - 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 128 - Are we likely to be seen on our way?" "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. No. Native craft did not count, of course. It was an empty, solitary part of the sea, Schomberg expounded further. Only the Ternate mail-boat crossed that region about the 8th of every...
Page 161 - ... encounters of a world in which love itself rests as much on antagonism as on attraction. His mental attitude was that of a man looking this way and that on a piece of writing which he is unable to decipher, but which may be big with some revelation. He didn't know what to say. All he found to add wa« "I don't even understand what I have done or left undone to distress you like this.
Page 71 - For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
Page 286 - Exulting, she saw herself extended on the bed, in a black dress, and profoundly at peace; while, stooping over her with a kindly, playful smile, he was ready to lift her up in his firm arms and take her into the sanctuary of his innermost heart — for ever! The flush of rapture flooding her whole being broke out in a smile of innocent, girlish happiness; and with that divine radiance on her lips she breathed her last, triumphant, seeking for his glance in the shades of death. XIV "YES, Excellency...
Page 300 - THE POEMS AND PLAYS OF TENNYSON. 643. DEWEY, JOHN. Intelligence in the Modern World: John Dewey's Philosophy.
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Page 147 - Apparently it was too long for me." " Well, you were thinking of me, anyhow. I am glad of it. Do you know, it seems to me, somehow, that if you were to stop thinking of me I shouldn't be in the world at all!