Captain Whalley had been also the pioneer of the early trade in the Gulf of Pe-tchi-li. He even fou...
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as if for instance the sun had turned blue, throwing a new and sinister light on men and nature. Re...
against him." "It would be no use your saying anything against him," Captain Whalley affirmed a li...
pidity, forgot himself completely. His stony, unwink- ing stare was fixed on the planks of the deck...
an esteem that nothing can shake." A slight ring of glass made him lift his eyes from the slice of...
engineer seemed nonplused, like a slow man invited to catch hold of a whirligig of some sort. "Wha...
to think of. His word would be law. He had been out of work for a long time before he won his prize...
as if you were too big to attend to your work yourself. And what do you call that silly touch-and-g...
of such power as he had. His conceited and tyrannical disposition did not allow him to let it dwind...
to nothing better than these dark threats of dismissal; and a threat of dismissal would check him a...
ships of the port. He proceeded to give instances of what was expected of him; and his thick voice...
say to that? The fellow had the audacity to fly out at the Master- Attendant. He had received the ...
was not to lose any of her money whatever else had to go--a little dignity--some of his self-respec...
scar upon the golden glitter; then after an interval the voice of the young Malay uplifted and long...
the ship going he had been involving himself deeper every year. He was defenseless before the insid...