Youth: And Two Other StoriesGrosset & Dunlap, 1903 - 381 páginas |
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... steamer loomed up close . 6 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 . 6 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 . " At " It wasn't much , but it delayed us three weeks . the end of that time , the captain being engaged with his agents , I carried Mrs. Beard's bag to the railway - sta- tion and put her all comfy into a third ...
... steamer smashed . " At " It wasn't much , but it delayed us three weeks . the end of that time , the captain being engaged with his agents , I carried Mrs. Beard's bag to the railway - sta- tion and put her all comfy into a third ...
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... steamer far astern . Cap- tain Beard said , ' We may do something with her yet . ' We hoisted two flags , which said in the international language of the sea , ' On fire . Want immediate assis- tance . ' The steamer grew bigger rapidly ...
... steamer far astern . Cap- tain Beard said , ' We may do something with her yet . ' We hoisted two flags , which said in the international language of the sea , ' On fire . Want immediate assis- tance . ' The steamer grew bigger rapidly ...
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... steamer . " When our skipper came back we learned that the steamer was the Sommerville , Captain Nash , from West Australia to Singapore viâ Batavia with mails , and that the agreement was she should tow us to Anjer or Ba- tavia , if ...
... steamer . " When our skipper came back we learned that the steamer was the Sommerville , Captain Nash , from West Australia to Singapore viâ Batavia with mails , and that the agreement was she should tow us to Anjer or Ba- tavia , 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 alongside , and stopped . We were all in a tight group on the poop looking at her . Every ...
... 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 alongside , and stopped . We were all in a tight group on the poop looking at her . Every ...
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Página 97 - I don't like work. I had rather laze about and think of all the fine things that can be done. I don't like work - no man does - but I like what is in the work, - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.
Página 70 - 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 — j and nothing happened.
Página 59 - Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps. I would look for hours at South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when I saw one that looked particularly inviting on a map (but they all look that) I would put my finger on it and say, When I grow up I will go there.
Página 105 - ... away — in another existence perhaps. There were moments when one's past came back to one, as it will sometimes when you have not a moment to spare to yourself; but it came in the shape of an unrestful and noisy dream, remembered with wonder amongst the overwhelming realities of this strange world of plants, and water, and silence. And this stillness of life did not in the least resemble a peace. It was the stillness of an implacable force brooding over an inscrutable intention.
Página 132 - 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 72 - A horn tooted to the right, and I saw the black people run. A heavy and dull detonation shook the ground, a puff of smoke came out of the cliff, and that was all. No change appeared on the face of the rock. They were building a railway. The cliff was not in the way or anything ; but this objectless blasting was all the work going on.
Página 41 - I remember the heat, the deluge of rain-squalls that kept us baling for dear life (but filled our water-cask), and I remember sixteen hours on end with a mouth dry as a cinder and a steering-oar over the stern to keep my first command head on to a breaking sea. I did not know how good a man I was till then.
Página 164 - There was nothing either above or below him, and I knew it. He had kicked himself loose of the earth. Confound the man! he had kicked the very earth to pieces.
Página 133 - 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 - Land in a swamp, march through the woods, and in some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him— all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men.