Youth: And Two Other StoriesMcClure, Phillips & Company, 1903 - 381 páginas |
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... thing 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 600 - ton cargo of coal to its port of desti- nation ...
... thing 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 600 - ton cargo of coal to its port of desti- nation ...
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... thing - something that appealed to my youth ! " We left London in ballast - sand ballast - to load a cargo of coal in a northern port for Bankok . Bankok ! I thrilled . I had been six years at sea , but had only seen Melbourne and ...
... thing - something that appealed to my youth ! " We left London in ballast - sand ballast - to load a cargo of coal in a northern port for Bankok . Bankok ! I thrilled . I had been six years at sea , but had only seen Melbourne and ...
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... things are all in order now . I would be glad of something to do . ' Bless the old woman . She overhauled my outfit for me , and meantime I read for the first time Sartor Resartus ' and Burnaby's ' Ride to Khiva . ' I didn't understand ...
... things are all in order now . I would be glad of something to do . ' Bless the old woman . She overhauled my outfit for me , and meantime I read for the first time Sartor Resartus ' and Burnaby's ' Ride to Khiva . ' I didn't understand ...
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... thing was a heavy crash as the steamer struck a glancing blow with the bluff of her bow about our fore - rigging . There was a moment of confusion , yelling , and running about . Steam roared . Then somebody was heard saying , ' All ...
... thing was a heavy crash as the steamer struck a glancing blow with the bluff of her bow about our fore - rigging . There was a moment of confusion , yelling , and running about . Steam roared . Then somebody was heard saying , ' All ...
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... thing , whatever it was , struck my leg again . This time I caught it - and it was a sauce - pan . At first , being stupid with fatigue and thinking of nothing but the pumps , I did not understand what I had in my hand . Suddenly it ...
... thing , whatever it was , struck my leg again . This time I caught it - and it was a sauce - pan . At first , being stupid with fatigue and thinking of nothing but the pumps , I did not understand what I had in my hand . Suddenly it ...
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Página 184 - We have lost the first of the ebb," said the Director, suddenly. I raised my head. The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky — seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.
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 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 105 - 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.
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 — and nothing happened. Nothing could happen. There...
Página 178 - 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 forever. She took both my hands in hers and murmured, 'I had heard you were coming.
Página 135 - 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 of note at the foot of the last page, scrawled evidently much later, in an unsteady hand, may be regarded as the exposition of a method. It was very simple, and at the end of that moving appeal to every altruistic sentiment it blazed at you, luminous and terrifying, like a flash of lightning in a serene sky : 'Exterminate all the...
Página 70 - Her ensign dropped limp like a rag; the muzzles of the long eight-inch guns stuck out all over the low hull; the greasy, slimy swell swung her up lazily and let her down, swaying her thin masts. In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.
Página 183 - I felt like a chill grip on my chest. ' Don't,' I said, in a muffled voice. " ' Forgive me. I — I — have mourned so long in silence — in silence. . . . You were with him — to the last? I think of his loneliness. Nobody near to understand him as I would have understood. Perhaps no one to hear. . . .' " ' To the very end,
Página 90 - It was evident he took me for a perfectly shameless prevaricator. At last he got angry, and, to conceal a movement of furious annoyance, he yawned. I rose. Then I noticed a small sketch in oils, on a panel, representing a woman, draped and blindfolded, carrying a lighted torch. The background was somber — almost black. The movement of the woman was stately, and the effect of the torch-light on the face was sinister.