Youth: And Two Other StoriesGrosset & Dunlap, 1903 - 381 ページ |
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... felt like a small boy between two grandfathers . " The ship also was old . Her name was the Judea . Queer name , isn't it ? She belonged to a man Wilmer , Wilcox - some name like that ; but he has been bankrupt and dead these twenty ...
... felt like a small boy between two grandfathers . " The ship also was old . Her name was the Judea . Queer name , isn't it ? She belonged to a man Wilmer , Wilcox - some name like that ; but he has been bankrupt and dead these twenty ...
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... felt to be dry . " And there was somewhere in me the thought : By Jove ! this is the deuce of an adventure - something you read about ; and it is my first voyage as second mate and I am only twenty - and here I am lasting it out as well ...
... felt to be dry . " And there was somewhere in me the thought : By Jove ! this is the deuce of an adventure - something you read about ; and it is my first voyage as second mate and I am only twenty - and here I am lasting it out as well ...
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... 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 a while ...
... 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 a while ...
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... felt as though we each had inherited a large fortune . But a beastly smell of burning hung about the ship . Captain Beard had hollow eyes and sunken cheeks . I had never noticed so much before how twisted and bowed he was . He and Mahon ...
... felt as though we each had inherited a large fortune . But a beastly smell of burning hung about the ship . Captain Beard had hollow eyes and sunken cheeks . I had never noticed so much before how twisted and bowed he was . He and Mahon ...
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... felt a dull concussion which made my ribs ache sud- denly . No doubt about it - I was in the air , and my body was describing a short parabola . But short as it was , I had the time to think several thoughts in , as far as I can ...
... felt a dull concussion which made my ribs ache sud- denly . No doubt about it - I was in the air , and my body was describing a short parabola . But short as it was , I had the time to think several thoughts in , as far as I can ...
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asked bank Bankok Batu Beru beard began berth binnacle boats bridge cabin Captain Whalley chap cheroot coast course cried dark dead deck devil earth 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 Martini-Henry Massy Massy's mate murmured never niggers night once Pangu patent slip pilgrims port prau remember Ringdove river round sampan seemed Serang shadow ship shore side sight silence skipper smoke Sofala somber sort soul sound stared steamboat steamer Sterne stood straight stream suddenly talk tell thing thought tion took trees Tuan turned unsound method Van Wyk voice waiting walked watch Whal Whalley's whisper word
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70 ページ - 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.
161 ページ - 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.
133 ページ - 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...
58 ページ - 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.
56 ページ - ... to build, apparently by the hundred, in a month or two, if we may believe what we read.
76 ページ - 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.
132 ページ - 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.
149 ページ - 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.
94 ページ - 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...
105 ページ - 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.