dissolution, and when I might easily have been engulfed in the maw of the sea, had cast me upon tho...
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"No," Pilate answered; "it was Judas, the treasurer." "Who was this John?" I questioned. "He was in...
"Hey, dad! Let me in. I am Harry, I am. Straight! Come back home a day too soon." One of the windo...
"In the bush somewhere; in the sea; on a blamed mountain-top for choice. At home? Yes! the world's...
get." He extended his hand. "No fear! I haven't forgotten a single one of you in the world. Some ...
To-morrow by Joseph Conrad What was known of Captain Hagberd in the little seaport of Colebrook w...
TYPHOON BY JOSEPH CONRAD Far as the mariner on highest mast Can see all around upon the calmed v...
was authenticated by an affectionate wink now and then. Miss Carvil had come to look forward rather...
him to leave word behind, he was mourned over for dead till, after eight months, his first letter a...
the girls. The husbands . . ." He winked. Miss Bessie, absorbed in her knitting, coloured faintly. ...
impassive, he asked: "And did you throw up the billet?" "No," cried Jukes, raising a weary, discou...
change of tone: "You've grown a beard like Father Christmas himself." Captain Hagberd drew a littl...
blazed down through the quiet air. Our thirst grew, and soon the babies were crying and the younger...
death on the streets of Keijo. In Pyeng-yang I became a water-carrier, for know that that old city,...
skeleton at the time. I sometimes wonder if his nose really did bleed. Of course he swore it did, o...