leadsman anxiously below the bridge. And suddenly the barefooted Serang stepped away noiselessly to...
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was open to him no longer to take a boat at the jetty and get himself pulled off to her when the ev...
respect. She the first--the only one! But in the instant she saw the son of that other woman she fe...
Lakamba calls himself a Sultan, and when I go to see him on business sends that one-eyed fiend of h...
wanted time to stretch themselves and to shiver a little. Some wanted food. One said he was sick. N...
End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad I For a long time after the course of the steamer Sofala had ...
thrown away by her chief, by her nearest, to use up the last and worthless remnant of flickering li...
majestic and benign "Good morning to you." He walked the deck till eight scrupulously. Sometimes, n...
that glimmered red through its own smoke, which hung thickening under the boughs of the big tree. S...
limited himself to six a day. He never told her of his difficulties, and she never enlarged upon he...
cursed through his teeth . . . It had wanted only this! See things like that in broad daylight! He ...
"What the devil do you want?" exclaimed Willems, looking towards the river. "Where's that damned bo...
and good-humoured warning, whispered or shouted, "Steady, Captain Lingard, steady." A smart fellow....
Joanna shivered. Almayer went on rapidly-- "I would have given you money if you had wanted it. 'Pon...
"I tried to do something. Take her away from those people. I went to Almayer; the biggest blind foo...