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Joseph Conrad

Youth, a Narrative

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    You fight, work, sweat, nearly kill yourself, sometimes do kill yourself, trying to accomplish something—and you can't.
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    never saw her again... Pass the bottle.
  • MMhar citeretfor 6 år siden
    Then to us: ‘A sailor has no business with a wife—I say. There I was, out of the ship. Well, no harm done this time. Let’s go and look at what that fool of a steamer smashed.’
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    sixty-year-old. Just imagine that old fellow saving heroically in his arms that old woman—the woman of his life
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    floating about the dock in that mizzly cold rain for nearly an hour. I was never so surprised in my life
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    Then somebody was heard saying, ‘All clear, sir.’... ‘Are you all right?’ asked the gruff voice. I had jumped
  • MMhar citeretfor 6 år siden
    fore-end of a steamer loomed up close. I shouted down the cabin, ‘Come up, quick!’ and then heard a startled voice saying afar in the dark, ‘Stop her, sir.’ A bell jingled. Another
  • MMhar citeretfor 6 år siden
    took sixteen days in all to get from London to the Tyne! When
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    ‘This means another month in this beastly hole,’ said Mahon to me, as we peered with lamps about the splintered bulwarks and broken braces. ‘But where’s the captain?’
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    heavy crash as the steamer struck a glancing blow with the bluff of her bow about our fore-rigging. There
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