Victory: An Island Tale, Volume 1Louis Conard, 1916 - 276 pages |
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Page 131
... father , an expatriated Swede who died in London , dissatisfied with his country and angry with all the world ... father's pale , distin- guished face in affectionate memory . He remembered him mainly in an ample blue dressing - gown in ...
... father , an expatriated Swede who died in London , dissatisfied with his country and angry with all the world ... father's pale , distin- guished face in affectionate memory . He remembered him mainly in an ample blue dressing - gown in ...
Page 132
... father's analysis had blown away from the son . " I'll drift , " Heyst had said to himself deliberately . He did not mean intellectually or sentimentally or morally . He meant to drift altogether and literally , body and soul , like a ...
... father's analysis had blown away from the son . " I'll drift , " Heyst had said to himself deliberately . He did not mean intellectually or sentimentally or morally . He meant to drift altogether and literally , body and soul , like a ...
Page 240
... father , with his contemptuous , inflexible negation of all effort ; but apparently he could not . There was in the son a lot of that first ancestor who , as soon as he could uplift his muddy frame from the celestial mould , started ...
... father , with his contemptuous , inflexible negation of all effort ; but apparently he could not . There was in the son a lot of that first ancestor who , as soon as he could uplift his muddy frame from the celestial mould , started ...
Page 241
... father was in an unexpectedly soft mood on that night , when the moon swam in a cloudless sky over the begrimed shadows of the town . " You still believe in something , then ? " he said in a clear voice , which had been growing feeble ...
... father was in an unexpectedly soft mood on that night , when the moon swam in a cloudless sky over the begrimed shadows of the town . " You still believe in something , then ? " he said in a clear voice , which had been growing feeble ...
Page 243
... father . For him it was purely a matter of hearsay which could not in itself cause this emotion . No ! It was because he had looked at him so long that he missed him so much . The dead man had kept him on the bank by his side . And now ...
... father . For him it was purely a matter of hearsay which could not in itself cause this emotion . No ! It was because he had looked at him so long that he missed him so much . The dead man had kept him on the bank by his side . And now ...
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