to be its last. In 1831, on the outbreak of the Revolution, Mr. Nicholas B. was the senior captain ...
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again, and their very existence utterly forgotten, I believe, before a French river pilot came on b...
true, and so far effective that the fellows began to scratch their heads and look irresolute. The s...
sitting on the hotel sofa waiting to carry me off there. "You might tell me something of your life ...
stands clear as the sun at noonday that from the moment I had done blackening over the first manusc...
grandson, of the servants whose friendly faces had been familiar to me in my early childhood. As a ...
At this stage of the narrative, which I heard many times (by request) from the lips of Captain Nich...
A PERSONAL RECORD BY JOSEPH CONRAD A FAMILIAR PREFACE As a general rule we do not want much encou...
"Why, is his face hurt?" asked the astounded old Nelson. The truth dawned suddenly upon his innocen...
mind. So I proceed in peace to declare that I have always suspected in the effort to bring into pla...
"Take this - and this - and this - " till suddenly her arms fell. She had seen the ensign dipped in...
were no whispers in it; it was more like visions. He saw that girl hanging round the neck of a low ...
elect of Freya? It was now afternoon, the sun being behind the two vessels as they headed for the ...
drink down his throat, and rushed out. His disappearance removed the spell of wonder from the behol...
short, black-eyed man with a cruel grip of fingers like a vice. Quaking all over at a distance, ext...