Chance: A Tale in Two Parts, Volume 2B. Tauchnitz, 1914 - Children of prisoners |
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Anthony's apoplectic Armida asked binnacle bo'sun boatswain breath cabin Captain Anthony captain's wife chance chief mate coming course dark daughter deck door eyes face father feeling fellow felt Ferndale Flora de Barral Franklin Fyne girl glance glass gone hand head hear heard impressionable knew laugh light lips looked Marlow mate mate's matter mean mind mizzen-mast moved murmur mysterious never night notice once panion papa paused perhaps poop portunities Powell's remember Roderick Anthony round sailor saloon second mate second officer seemed seen shadow ship ship-keeper shoulder side silence skylight smile Smith sort sound stare state-room staysails steward stood stopped strange suddenly suppose surprised talk tell thing thought tion told tone turned uncon understand uttered voice waiting walked watch whispered woman women wonder words young Powell
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Page 254 - This was yesterday," added Marlow, lolling in the arm-chair lazily. "I haven't heard yet; but I expect to hear any moment. . . . What on earth are you grinning at in this sarcastic manner? I am not afraid of going to church with a friend. Hang it all, for all my belief in Chance I am not exactly a pagan.
Page 98 - I'll admit that for some time the old-maiden-lady-like occupation of putting two and two together failed to procure a coherent theory. I am speaking now as an investigator — a man of deductions. With what we know of Roderick Anthony and Flora de Barral I could not deduct an ordinary marital quarrel beautifully matured in less than a year — could I? If you ask me what is an ordinary marital quarrel I will tell you, that it is a difference about nothing; I mean, these nothings which, as Mr. Powell...
Page 228 - Pairing off is the fate of mankind. And if two beings thrown together, mutually attracted, resist the necessity, fail in understanding and voluntarily stop short of the — the embrace, in the noblest meaning of the word, then they are committing a sin against life, the call of which is simple. Perhaps sacred. And the punishment of it is an invasion of complexity, a tormenting, forcibly tortuous involution of feelings, the deepest form of suffering from which indeed something significant may come...
Page 50 - ... but no sailor remembers this in the presence of its bewitching power any more than a lover ever thinks of "the proverbial inconstancy of women.
Page 228 - ... it fully, which is the most imperative. Pairing off is the fate of mankind. And if two beings thrown together, mutually attracted, resist the necessity, fail in understanding and voluntarily stop short of the — the embrace, in the noblest meaning of the word, then they are committing a sin against life, the call of which is simple.
Page 42 - ... surprised by the experience life was holding in store for him. This would account for his remembering so much of it with considerable vividness. For instance, the impressions attending his first breakfast on board the Ferndale, both visual and mental, were as fresh to him as if received yesterday. "The surprise, it is easy to understand, would arise from the inability to interpret aright the signs which experience (a thing mysterious in itself) makes to our understanding and emotions.
Page 173 - Mr. Smith followed her carrying the chair. He banged it down resolutely and in that smooth inexpressive tone so many ears used to bend eagerly to catch when it came from the Great de Barral he said : "'Let's get away.' "She had the strength of mind not to spin round. On the contrary she went on to a shabby bit of a mirror on the wall. In the greenish glass her own face looked far off like the livid face of a drowned corpse at the bottom of a pool. She laughed faintly. "'I tell you that man's getting...
Page 98 - At sea, you know, there is no gallery. You hear no tormenting echoes of your own littleness there, where either a great elemental voice roars defiantly under the sky or else an elemental silence seems to be part of the infinite stillness of the universe.
Page 106 - ... from a poisoned sleep, in which it could only quiver with pain but could neither expand nor move. He plunged into them breathless and tense, deep, deep, like a mad sailor taking a desperate dive from the masthead into the blue unfathomable sea so many m'en have execrated and loved at the same time. And his vanity was immense. It had been touched to the quick by that muscular little feminist, Fyne. 'I! I! Take advantage of her helplessness. I! Unfair to that creature — that wisp of mist, that...
Page 99 - In this world as at present organized women are the suspected half of the population ... the part falling to women's share being all 'influence' has an air of occult and mysterious action, something not altogether trustworthy like all natural forces ... (327) Marlow's influence on Fyne, who is commendably unwilling to 'push under the head of a poor devil of a girl quite sufficiently plucky...