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Page 77
... remained sitting in the darkness . Long small windows grew into light at one end of the place , curved into an outline that suggested a deep recess . The figure of a crowned woman , that moved rigidly up and down , was silhouetted over ...
... remained sitting in the darkness . Long small windows grew into light at one end of the place , curved into an outline that suggested a deep recess . The figure of a crowned woman , that moved rigidly up and down , was silhouetted over ...
Page 85
... was no sign of privateer or pirate , as far as the eye could reach . Ir . the course of beating up to windward we closed in with the coast , and then the wind fell . I remained motionless against the rail for half the night 85 X.
... was no sign of privateer or pirate , as far as the eye could reach . Ir . the course of beating up to windward we closed in with the coast , and then the wind fell . I remained motionless against the rail for half the night 85 X.
Page 86
A Novel Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford. I remained motionless against the rail for half the night , looking at the land . Not a single light was visible . A wistful , dreamy longing , a quiet longing pervaded me , as though I had been ...
A Novel Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford. I remained motionless against the rail for half the night , looking at the land . Not a single light was visible . A wistful , dreamy longing , a quiet longing pervaded me , as though I had been ...
Page 87
... remained on the other tack , with her foresheet to wind- ward . Major Cowper said it was a scandal . The country was going to the dogs because merchantmen were not compelled by law to carry guns . He spluttered into my ears that there ...
... remained on the other tack , with her foresheet to wind- ward . Major Cowper said it was a scandal . The country was going to the dogs because merchantmen were not compelled by law to carry guns . He spluttered into my ears that there ...
Page 88
... remained hove to abeam . But in the man in command of the boarding party I recognized Tomas Castro ! He was a pirate . My surmises were correct . He looked the part to the life , in a plumed hat , cloaked to the chin , and standing ...
... remained hove to abeam . But in the man in command of the boarding party I recognized Tomas Castro ! He was a pirate . My surmises were correct . He looked the part to the life , in a plumed hat , cloaked to the chin , and standing ...
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Page 41 - Here's the mahn ye were speerin' after. Here's Macdonald." It was the voice of Barnes, and the voice of the every day. I discovered that I had been tremendously upset. The pulses in my temples were throbbing, and I wanted to shut my eyes — to sleep! I was tired; Romance had departed. Barnes and the Macdonald he had found for me represented all the laborious insects of the world; all the ants who are forever hauling immensely heavy and immensely unimportant burdens up weary hillocks, down steep...