every day. Every day he seemed more distant, and she followed him patiently, hopefully, blindly, bu...
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The big office desk was pushed on one side, and Joanna came with her little shabby trunk and with h...
They stood together, crossing their glances; she suddenly appeased, and Lingard thoughtful and unea...
one side away from the hammock, and the silence that succeeded seemed to him as startling as the aw...
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...
object of his solicitude, and grasping it strongly by its long barrel, grounded the stock at his fe...
that was spreading itself, low and gentle, over the courtyard--"we hear!" Lingard opened slowly th...
times," exclaimed Omar, with weak violence. "He is--no doubt--accursed," assented Babalatchi, in a ...
through them an involuntary shudder. Old Omar collapsed on his carpet and moaned feebly; Lakamba st...
After his conversation with Almayer he went on board the schooner, sent Joanna on shore, and shut h...
legs under him decorously. The improvised divan was arranged in a wide semi-circle, of which the p...
"Do you want it now?" asked Almayer. "No! Catch this rope. Oh, you clumsy devil! . . . No, Kaspar,"...
into the darkness of Omar's hut; heard them exchange the usual greetings and the distinguished visi...