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Then the whole population cleared into the forest, expecting all kinds of
calamities to happen, while, on the other hand, the steamer Fresleven
commanded left also in a bad panic, in charge of the engineer, I believe.
Afterwards nobody ...
Then the whole population cleared into the forest, expecting all kinds of
calamities to happen, while, on the other hand, the steamer Fresleven
commanded left also in a bad panic, in charge of the engineer, I believe.
Afterwards nobody ...
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in charge of the engineer, I believe. Afterwards nobody seemed to trouble much
about Fresleven's remains, till I got out and stepped into his shoes. I couldn't let it
rest, though; but when an opportunity offered at last to meet my predecessor, the
...
in charge of the engineer, I believe. Afterwards nobody seemed to trouble much
about Fresleven's remains, till I got out and stepped into his shoes. I couldn't let it
rest, though; but when an opportunity offered at last to meet my predecessor, the
...
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The engineer. I see." How the fellow came to be a shipowner at the same time
was quite a tale. He came out third in a home ship nearly fifteen years ago,
Captain Eliott remembered, and got paid off after a bad sort of row both with his
skipper ...
The engineer. I see." How the fellow came to be a shipowner at the same time
was quite a tale. He came out third in a home ship nearly fifteen years ago,
Captain Eliott remembered, and got paid off after a bad sort of row both with his
skipper ...
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All these engineers and officers of ships took tickets in that gamble. It seemed to
be a perfect mania with them all. Everybody expected now that he would take
himself off home with his money, and go to the devil in his own way. Not at all.
All these engineers and officers of ships took tickets in that gamble. It seemed to
be a perfect mania with them all. Everybody expected now that he would take
himself off home with his money, and go to the devil in his own way. Not at all.
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All the horrid sailors in the port had conspired to bring him to his knees, because
he was an engineer." Captain Eliott emitted a throaty chuckle. " And the fact is,
that if he misses a couple more trips he need never trouble himself to start again.
All the horrid sailors in the port had conspired to bring him to his knees, because
he was an engineer." Captain Eliott emitted a throaty chuckle. " And the fact is,
that if he misses a couple more trips he need never trouble himself to start again.
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appeared asked bank began believe better boats body bridge called Captain Whalley clear close coast course dark dead deck don't door earth engineer eyes face feeling feet fellow felt fire give glance gone hand head hear heard heart heavy hold hundred idea keep kind knew Kurtz land leave light live looked lost manager Massy matter mean mind moved never night once passed perhaps remained remember rest river round seemed seen Serang ship shore side sight silence smoke Sofala sort sound stand station steamer stepped Sterne stood stopped straight stream suddenly talk tell thing thought took trees turned voice waiting walked watch whole
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Página 68 - 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 — and nothing happened.
Página 159 - I did not betray Mr. Kurtz— it was ordered I should never betray him— it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice. I was anxious to deal with this shadow by myself alone— and to this day I don't know why I was so jealous of sharing with any one the peculiar blackness of that experience.
Página 131 - 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 - It was the farthest point of navigation and the culminating point of my experience. It seemed somehow to throw a kind of light on everything about me — and into my thoughts. It was sombre enough, too — and pitiful — not extraordinary in any way — not very clear either. No, not very clear. And yet it seemed to throw a kind of light.
Página 54 - ... to build, apparently by the hundred, in a month or two, if we may believe what we read.
Página 74 - I began to distinguish the gleam of the eyes under the trees. Then, glancing down, I saw a face near my hand. The black bones reclined at full length with one shoulder against the tree, and slowly the eyelids rose and the sunken eyes looked up at me, enormous and vacant, a kind of blind, white flicker in the depths of the orbs, which died out slowly.
Página 130 - 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 147 - They only showed that Mr. Kurtz lacked restraint in the gratification of his various lusts, that there was something wanting in him — some small matter which, when. [ 148 ] the pressing need arose, could not be found under his magnificent eloquence.
Página 92 - Of course in this you fellows see more than I could then. You see me, whom you know. . . ." It had become so pitch dark that we listeners could hardly see one another. For a long time already he, sitting apart, had been no more to us than a voice. There was not a word from anybody. The others might have been asleep, but I was awake. I listened, I listened on the watch for the sentence, for the word, that would give me the clew to the faint uneasiness inspired by this narrative that seemed to shape...
Página 103 - Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings.
Información bibliográfica
| Título | Youth: And Two Other Stories |
| Autor | Joseph Conrad |
| Editor | Doubleday, Page, 1903 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 7 Feb. 2007 |
| Largo | 379 páginas |
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