Youth: And Two Other StoriesDoubleday, Page, 1903 - 379 páginas |
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... steamer loomed up 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 ...
... steamer loomed up 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 ...
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... steamer smashed . ' “ It wasn't much , but it delayed us three weeks . At the end of that time , the captain being engaged with his agents , I carried Mrs. Beard's bag to the railway- station and put her all comfy into a third - class ...
... steamer smashed . ' “ It wasn't much , but it delayed us three weeks . At the end of that time , the captain being engaged with his agents , I carried Mrs. Beard's bag to the railway- station and put her all comfy into a third - class ...
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... steamer far astern . Captain Beard said , ' We may do something with her yet . ' We hoisted two flags , which said in the inter- national language of the sea , ' On fire . Want im- mediate assistance . ' The steamer grew bigger rapidly ...
... steamer far astern . Captain Beard said , ' We may do something with her yet . ' We hoisted two flags , which said in the inter- national language of the sea , ' On fire . Want im- mediate assistance . ' The steamer grew bigger rapidly ...
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... steamer . " When our skipper came back we learned that the steamer was the Somerville , Captain Nash , from West Australia to Singapore via Batavia with mails , and that the agreement was she should tow us to Anjer or Batavia , if ...
... steamer . " When our skipper came back we learned that the steamer was the Somerville , Captain Nash , from West Australia to Singapore via Batavia with mails , and that the agreement was she should tow us to Anjer or Batavia , if ...
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... steamer that the rope was gone . She gave a loud blast of her whistle , her lights were seen sweeping in a wide circle , she came up ranging close along - side , and stopped . We were all in a tight group on the poop looking at her ...
... steamer that the rope was gone . She gave a loud blast of her whistle , her lights were seen sweeping in a wide circle , she came up ranging close along - side , and stopped . We were all in a tight group on the poop looking at her ...
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Página 37 - ... And I see a bay, a wide bay, smooth as glass and polished like ice, shimmering in the dark. A red light burns far off upon the gloom of the land, and the night is soft and warm. We drag at the oars with aching arms, and suddenly a puff of wind, a puff faint and tepid and laden with strange...
Página 66 - They were dying slowly - it was very clear. They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now, - nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation, lying confusedly in the greenish gloom. Brought from all the recesses of the coast in all the legality of time contracts, lost in uncongenial surroundings, fed on unfamiliar food, they sickened, became inefficient, and were then allowed to crawl away and rest.
Página 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,...
Página 131 - They only showed that Mr. Kurtz lacked restraint in the gratification of his various lusts, that .. there was something wanting in him — some small mat- j ter which, when the pressing need arose, could not be found under his magnificent eloquence.
Página 51 - The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only.
Página 47 - Eastern trade, and the commissioned "generals" of East India fleets. .Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of the might within the land, bearers of a spark from the sacred fire-. What greatness had not floated on the ebb of that river into the mystery of an unknown earth! . . . The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealths, the germs of empires.
Página 35 - We made our way north. A breeze sprang up, and about noon all the boats came together for the last time. I had no mast or sail in mine, but I made a mast out of a spare oar and hoisted a boat-awning for a sail, with a boat-hook for a yard. She was certainly over-masted, but I had the satisfaction of knowing that with the wind aft I could beat the other two. I had to wait for them. • Then we all had a look at the captain's chart, and, after a sociable meal of hard bread and water, got our last instructions....
Página 59 - It's queer how out of touch with truth women are. They live in a world of their own, and there had never been anything like it, and never can be. It is too beautiful altogether, and if they were to set it up it would go to pieces before the first sunset. Some confounded fact we men have been living contentedly with ever since the day of creation would start up and knock the whole thing over.
Página 47 - Franklin, knights all, titled and untitled - the great knights-errant of the sea. It had borne all the ships whose names are like jewels flashing in the night of time, from the Golden Hind returning with her round flanks full of treasure, to be visited by the Queen's Highness and thus pass out of the gigantic tale, to the Erebus and Terror, bound on other conquests - and that never returned. It had known the ships and the men. They had sailed from Deptford, from Greenwich, from Erith - the adventurers...
Página 55 - There was a vast amount of red — good to see at any time, because one knows that some real work is done in there, a deuce of a lot of blue, a little green, smears of orange, and, on the East Coast, a purple patch, to show where the jolly pioneers of progress drink the jolly lager beer.