Youth: And Two Other StoriesGrosset & Dunlap, 1903 - 381 páginas |
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... suddenly a red gleam flashed at me , vanished , came into view again , and remained . The fore - end of a steamer loomed up close . 6 I shouted down the cabin , Come up , quick ! ' and then heard a startled voice saying afar in the dark ...
... suddenly a red gleam flashed at me , vanished , came into view again , and remained . The fore - end of a steamer loomed up close . 6 I shouted down the cabin , Come up , quick ! ' and then heard a startled voice saying afar in the dark ...
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... suddenly ; I took my cap off to the old woman : I never saw her again . . . . Pass the bottle . 66 " We went to sea next day . When we made that start for Bankok we had been already three months out of London . We had expected to be a ...
... suddenly ; I took my cap off to the old woman : I never saw her again . . . . Pass the bottle . 66 " We went to sea next day . When we made that start for Bankok we had been already three months out of London . We had expected to be a ...
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... suddenly I felt something hard floating on deck strike the calf of my leg . I made a grab at it and missed . It was so dark we could not see each other's faces within a foot - you understand . " After that thump the ship kept quiet for ...
... suddenly I felt something hard floating on deck strike the calf of my leg . I made a grab at it and missed . It was so dark we could not see each other's faces within a foot - you understand . " After that thump the ship kept quiet for ...
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... sudden shock coming upon the fag - end of his endurance . We snatched him up , lugged him aft , and pitched him head - first down the cabin companion . You understand there was no time to carry him down with infinite pre- cautions and ...
... sudden shock coming upon the fag - end of his endurance . We snatched him up , lugged him aft , and pitched him head - first down the cabin companion . You understand there was no time to carry him down with infinite pre- cautions and ...
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... Suddenly a man , some kind of agent to somebody , appeared with full powers . He had grog blossoms all over his face , an indomitable energy , and was a jolly soul . We leaped into life again . A hulk came along- side , took our cargo ...
... Suddenly a man , some kind of agent to somebody , appeared with full powers . He had grog blossoms all over his face , an indomitable energy , and was a jolly soul . We leaped into life again . A hulk came along- side , took our cargo ...
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asked bank Bankok Batu Beru beard began berth binnacle boats bridge cabin Captain Whalley chap coast course cried dark dead deck devil door earth engineer eyes face feet fellow fool glance gone hand head heard heart ivory Jean Webster Judea Kate Douglas Wiggin keep knew Kurtz lascar leaning Lew Wallace light live looked Mahon Malay Martini-Henry Massy Massy's mate murmured ness never night once Pangu pilgrims port prau remember Ringdove river round sampan seemed Serang shadow ship shore side silence skipper smoke Sofala somber sort soul sound stared steamboat steamer Sterne stood story straight stream suddenly talk tell thing Thomas Fogarty thought took trees Tuan turned uncon Van Wyk voice waiting walked watch Whal Whalley's whisper word
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Página 97 - I don't like work. I had rather laze about and think of all the fine things that can be done. I don't like work - no man does - but I like what is in the work, - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.
Página 70 - In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech — j and nothing happened.
Página 59 - Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps. I would look for hours at South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when I saw one that looked particularly inviting on a map (but they all look that) I would put my finger on it and say, When I grow up I will go there.
Página 105 - ... away — in another existence perhaps. There were moments when one's past came back to one, as it will sometimes when you have not a moment to spare to yourself; but it came in the shape of an unrestful and noisy dream, remembered with wonder amongst the overwhelming realities of this strange world of plants, and water, and silence. And this stillness of life did not in the least resemble a peace. It was the stillness of an implacable force brooding over an inscrutable intention.
Página 132 - The wilderness had patted him on the head, and, behold, it was like a ball an ivory ball; it had caressed him, and - lo! - he had withered; it had taken him, loved him, embraced him, got into his veins, consumed his flesh, and sealed his soul to its own by the inconceivable ceremonies of some devilish initiation.
Página 72 - A horn tooted to the right, and I saw the black people run. A heavy and dull detonation shook the ground, a puff of smoke came out of the cliff, and that was all. No change appeared on the face of the rock. They were building a railway. The cliff was not in the way or anything ; but this objectless blasting was all the work going on.
Página 41 - I remember the heat, the deluge of rain-squalls that kept us baling for dear life (but filled our water-cask), and I remember sixteen hours on end with a mouth dry as a cinder and a steering-oar over the stern to keep my first command head on to a breaking sea. I did not know how good a man I was till then.
Página 164 - There was nothing either above or below him, and I knew it. He had kicked himself loose of the earth. Confound the man! he had kicked the very earth to pieces.
Página 133 - You can't understand. How could you? — with solid pavement under your feet, surrounded by kind neighbours ready to cheer you or to fall on you, stepping delicately between the butcher and the policeman, in the holy terror of scandal and gallows and lunatic asylums...
Página 56 - Land in a swamp, march through the woods, and in some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him— all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men.