Youth, a Narrative, and Two Other StoriesClassic Books Company, 1928 - 339 sider |
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Side 5
... hand , and didn't care for writing at all . Both were thorough good seamen of course , and between those two old chaps I felt like a small boy between two grandfathers . " The ship also was old . Her name was the Judea . Queer name ...
... hand , and didn't care for writing at all . Both were thorough good seamen of course , and between those two old chaps I felt like a small boy between two grandfathers . " The ship also was old . Her name was the Judea . Queer name ...
Side 10
... hand and dirty like a smoked ceiling . In the stormy space surrounding us there was as much flying spray as air . Day after day and night after night there was nothing round the ship but the howl of the wind , the tumult of the sea ...
... hand and dirty like a smoked ceiling . In the stormy space surrounding us there was as much flying spray as air . Day after day and night after night there was nothing round the ship but the howl of the wind , the tumult of the sea ...
Side 11
... hand— no , not for so much as ten seconds . There was for us no sky , there were for us no stars , no sun , no universe— Nothing but angry clouds and an infuriated sea . We pumped watch and watch , for dear life ; and it seemed to last ...
... hand— no , not for so much as ten seconds . There was for us no sky , there were for us no stars , no sun , no universe— Nothing but angry clouds and an infuriated sea . We pumped watch and watch , for dear life ; and it seemed to last ...
Side 13
... hand . Suddenly it dawned upon me , and I shouted , ' Boys , the house on deck is gone . Leave this , and let's look ... hands had been ordered to sleep in the cabin —the only safe place in the ship . The steward , Abraham , however ...
... hand . Suddenly it dawned upon me , and I shouted , ' Boys , the house on deck is gone . Leave this , and let's look ... hands had been ordered to sleep in the cabin —the only safe place in the ship . The steward , Abraham , however ...
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... hand , gazed at the sea wistfully . We asked ourselves , What next ? I thought , Now , this is something like . This is great . I wonder what will happen . O youth ! " Suddenly Mahon sighted a steamer far astern . Captain Beard said ...
... hand , gazed at the sea wistfully . We asked ourselves , What next ? I thought , Now , this is something like . This is great . I wonder what will happen . O youth ! " Suddenly Mahon sighted a steamer far astern . Captain Beard said ...
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asked bank Bankok barque Batu Beru beard began berth binnacle boats bridge cabin Captain Whalley chap 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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Side 82 - No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence — that which makes its truth, its meaning — its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream — alone.
Side 62 - ... 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. Nothing could happen. There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding, a sense of lugubrious drollery in the sight; and it was not dissipated by somebody on board assuring me earnestly there was a camp of natives — he called them enemies ! — hidden out of sight somewhere.
Side 114 - ... the gift of expression, the bewildering, the illuminating, the most exalted and the most contemptible, the pulsating stream of light, or the deceitful flow from the heart of an impenetrable darkness.
Side 156 - I remembered his abject pleading, his abject threats, the colossal scale of his vile desires, the meanness, the torment, the tempestuous anguish of his soul. And later on I seemed to see his collected languid manner, when he said one day, "This lot of ivory now is really mine. The Company did not pay for it. I collected it myself at a very great personal risk. I am afraid they will try to claim it as theirs though. H'm. It is a difficult case. What do you think I ought to do - resist? Eh? I want...
Side 4 - You fellows know there are those voyages that seem ordered for the illustration of life, that might stand for a symbol of existence. You fight, work, sweat, nearly kill yourself, sometimes do kill yourself, trying to accomplish something— and you can't. Not from any fault of yours. You simply can do nothing, neither great nor little— not a thing in the world— not even marry an old maid, or get a wretched 6oo-ton cargo of coal to its port of destination.
Side 36 - I sat steering my cockle-shell — my first command — with nothing but water and sky around me. I did sight in the afternoon the upper sails of a ship far away, but said nothing, and my men did not notice her. You see I was afraid she might be homeward bound, and I had no mind to turn back from the portals of the East.
Side 33 - There will be no boats by-and-by if you fool about much longer,' I said, indignantly. I walked up to the skipper and shook him by the shoulder. At last he opened his eyes, but did not move. ' Time to leave her, sir,' I said, quietly. " He got up painfully, looked at the flames, at the sea sparkling round the ship, and black, black as ink farther away ; he looked at the stars shining dim through a thin veil of smoke in a sky black, black as Erebus. " ' Youngest first,
Side 157 - 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 for ever. She took both my hands in hers and murmured, 'I had heard you were coming.
Side 118 - By the simple exercise of our will we can exert a power for good practically unbounded,' etc. etc. From that point he soared and took me with him. The peroration was magnificent, though difficult to remember, you know. It gave me the notion of an exotic Immensity ruled by an august Benevolence. It made me tingle with enthusiasm. This was the unbounded power of eloquence — of words — of burning noble words. There were no practical hints to interrupt the magic current of phrases, unless a kind...
Side 161 - I was on the point of crying at her, 'Don't you hear them?' The dusk was repeating them in a persistent whisper all around us, in a whisper that seemed to swell menacingly like the first whisper of a rising wind. 'The horror! the horror!