Youth and Two Other StoriesDoubleday, Page, 1924 - 339 Seiten |
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... close . I shouted down the cabin , ' Come up , quick ! ' and then heard a startled voice saying afar in the dark , ' Stop her , sir . ' A bell jingled . Another voice cried warningly , ' We are going right into that barque , sir . ' The ...
... close . I shouted down the cabin , ' Come up , quick ! ' and then heard a startled voice saying afar in the dark , ' Stop her , sir . ' A bell jingled . Another voice cried warningly , ' We are going right into that barque , sir . ' The ...
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... close along - side , and stopped . We were all in a tight group on the poop looking at her . Every man had saved a little bundle or a bag . Sud- denly a conical flame with a twisted top shot up forward and threw upon the black sea a ...
... close along - side , and stopped . We were all in a tight group on the poop looking at her . Every man had saved a little bundle or a bag . Sud- denly a conical flame with a twisted top shot up forward and threw upon the black sea a ...
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... close to the long - boat , that in case of bad weather we might be taken into her . " And do you know what I thought ? I thought I would part company as soon as I could . I wanted to have my first command all to myself . I wasn't going ...
... close to the long - boat , that in case of bad weather we might be taken into her . " And do you know what I thought ? I thought I would part company as soon as I could . I wanted to have my first command all to myself . I wasn't going ...
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... close and anchored . ' I wish , ' said the old man , ' you would find out whether she is English . Perhaps they could give us a passage some- where . ' He seemed nervously anxious . So by dint of punching and kicking I started one of my ...
... close and anchored . ' I wish , ' said the old man , ' you would find out whether she is English . Perhaps they could give us a passage some- where . ' He seemed nervously anxious . So by dint of punching and kicking I started one of my ...
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... close together in an everlasting confab . " I had given up worrying myself about the rivets . One's capacity for that kind of folly is more limited than you would suppose . I said Hang ! -and let things slide . I had plenty of time for ...
... close together in an everlasting confab . " I had given up worrying myself about the rivets . One's capacity for that kind of folly is more limited than you would suppose . I said Hang ! -and let things slide . I had plenty of time for ...
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asked bank Bankok barque Batu Beru beard began berth binnacle boats bridge cabin Captain Whalley chap cheroot coast course cried dark dead deck devil door earth engine-room engineer eyes face feeling feet fellow fool glance gone hand head heard heart Heart of Darkness ivory Judea keep knew Kurtz lascar leaning light live looked Mahon Malay mangroves Martini-Henry Massy Massy's matter murmured mysterious never nigger night once Pangu patent slip pilgrims port prau remember Ringdove river round sampan seemed Serang shadow ship shore side sight silence skipper smoke Sofala sombre sort soul stared station steamboat steamer Sterne stood straight stream suddenly talk tell thing thought took trees Tuan turned Van Wyk verandah voice wait walked watch Whal Whalley's whisper word
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Seite 37 - I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more — the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort — to death...
Seite 150 - If such is the form of ultimate wisdom, then life is a greater riddle than some of us think it to be.
Seite 41 - ... of an Eastern crowd. And all these beings stared without a murmur, without a sigh, without a movement. They stared down at the boats, at the sleeping men who at night had come to them from the sea. Nothing moved. The fronds of palms stood still against the sky. Not a branch stirred along the shore, and the brown roofs of hidden houses peeped through the green foliage, through the big leaves that hung shining and still like leaves forged of heavy metal. This was the East of the ancient navigators,...
Seite 138 - I said with emphasis. He started, dropped on me a cold heavy glance, said very quietly, 'He WAS/ and turned his back on me. My hour of favor was over; I found myself lumped along with Kurtz as a partisan of methods for which the time was not ripe: I was unsound! Ah! but it was something to have at least a choice of nightmares.
Seite 155 - I had a vision of him on the stretcher, opening his mouth voraciously, as if to devour all the earth with all its mankind.
Seite 48 - Marlow was not typical (if his propensity to spin yarns be excepted), and to him the meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel but outside, enveloping the tale which brought it out only as a glow brings out a haze...
Seite 118 - He began with the argument that we whites, from the point of development we had arrived at, "must necessarily appear to them [savages] in the nature of supernatural beings - we approach them with the might as of a deity," and so on, and so on. "By the simple exercise of our will we can exert a power for good practically unbounded,
Seite 93 - When you have to attend to things of that sort, to the mere incidents of the surface, the reality — the reality, I tell you — fades. The inner truth is hidden — luckily, luckily. But I felt it all the same ; I felt often its mysterious stillness watching me at my monkey tricks, just as it watches you fellows performing on your respective tight-ropes for — what is it ? half a crown a tumble " " Try to be civil, Marlow," growled a voice, and I knew there was at least one listener awake besides...
Seite 152 - Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend.
Seite 156 - She came forward, all in black, with a pale head, floating towards me in the dusk. She was in mourning. It was more than a year since his death, more than a year since the news came; she seemed as though she would remember and mourn forever. She took both my hands in hers and murmured, 'I had heard you were coming.