Youth: And Two Other StoriesMcClure, Phillips & Company, 1903 - 381 páginas |
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... boats were square - rigged at least on two masts , and used to come down the China Sea before a fair monsoon with stun ' - sails set alow and aloft . We all began life in the merchant service . Between the five of us there was the ...
... boats were square - rigged at least on two masts , and used to come down the China Sea before a fair monsoon with stun ' - sails set alow and aloft . We all began life in the merchant service . Between the five of us there was the ...
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... ! ' .. How the devil did he get there ? we shouted . I am adrift in our boat without oars , ' he cried . A belated waterman offered his services , and • ' Hallo ! ' · Mahon struck a bargain with him for half - a [ 9 ] YOUTH.
... ! ' .. How the devil did he get there ? we shouted . I am adrift in our boat without oars , ' he cried . A belated waterman offered his services , and • ' Hallo ! ' · Mahon struck a bargain with him for half - a [ 9 ] YOUTH.
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... boat , which was fast to the ladder . Not bad for a sixty - year- old . Just imagine that old fellow saving heroically in his arms that old woman- -the woman of his life . He set her down on a thwart , and was ready to climb back on ...
... boat , which was fast to the ladder . Not bad for a sixty - year- old . Just imagine that old fellow saving heroically in his arms that old woman- -the woman of his life . He set her down on a thwart , and was ready to climb back on ...
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... boat changed , as if by magic , into matchwood where she stood in her gripes . I had lashed her myself , and was rather proud of my handiwork , which had withstood so long the malice of the sea . And we pumped . And there was no break ...
... boat changed , as if by magic , into matchwood where she stood in her gripes . I had lashed her myself , and was rather proud of my handiwork , which had withstood so long the malice of the sea . And we pumped . And there was no break ...
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... Boats gone , decks swept clean , cabin gutted , men without a stitch but what they stood in , stores spoiled , ship strained . We put her head for home , and - would you believe it ? The wind came east right in our teeth . It blew fresh ...
... Boats gone , decks swept clean , cabin gutted , men without a stitch but what they stood in , stores spoiled , ship strained . We put her head for home , and - would you believe it ? The wind came east right in our teeth . It blew fresh ...
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Página 172 - True, he had made that last stride, he had stepped over the edge, while I had been permitted to draw back my hesitating foot. And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that inappreciable moment of time in which we step over the threshold of the invisible.
Página 46 - And then I saw the men of the East — they were looking at me. The whole length of the jetty was full of people. I saw brown, bronze, yellow faces, the black eyes, the glitter, the colour of an Eastern crowd. And all these beings stared without a murmur, without a sigh, without a movement.
Página 171 - Droll thing life is — that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself — that comes too late — a crop of unextinguishable regrets.
Página 58 - 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 109 - Yes, it was ugly enough; but if you were man enough you would admit to yourself that there was in you just the faintest trace of a response to the terrible frankness of that noise, a dim suspicion of there being a meaning in it which you— you so remote from the night of first ages— could comprehend.
Página 41 - I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more— the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort— to death...
Página 154 - She was savage and superb, wild-eyed and magnificent; there was something ominous and stately in her deliberate progress. And in the hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the fecund and mysterious life seemed to look at her, pensive, as though it had been looking at the image of its own tenebrous and passionate soul.
Página 94 - 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 itself without human lips in the heavy nightair of the river. "... Yes — I let him run on,"...
Página 120 - No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs, and what you may call principles, they are less than chaff in a breeze.
Página 105 - Kurtz's station. -"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.