An Affair of the South Seas: A Story of Romantic AdventureT. Fisher Unwin, 1901 - 278 pages |
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... things were no worse with me than I have told you . Just as I was in this reverie of musing , three vigorous knocks at the door ended my dreaming , and Dr. Saville , an old friend , was announced by the boy who ran the elevator and ...
... things were no worse with me than I have told you . Just as I was in this reverie of musing , three vigorous knocks at the door ended my dreaming , and Dr. Saville , an old friend , was announced by the boy who ran the elevator and ...
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... things struck him in their gloomiest phases , and he foretold bloodshed and chaos for the country that tolerated them . " Why , I've seen little babes and their mothers dying for lack of warmth and food this very day , " he exclaimed ...
... things struck him in their gloomiest phases , and he foretold bloodshed and chaos for the country that tolerated them . " Why , I've seen little babes and their mothers dying for lack of warmth and food this very day , " he exclaimed ...
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... things , you can return with the ship that we send back for more machinery and pro- visions . " I said I was willing to investigate the scheme , and that I might decide to join the 18 An Affair in the South Seas A LATE CONFERENCE.
... things , you can return with the ship that we send back for more machinery and pro- visions . " I said I was willing to investigate the scheme , and that I might decide to join the 18 An Affair in the South Seas A LATE CONFERENCE.
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... things were so bad with them that there was little prospect of making them worse . Some were friends of the Captain ( and possibly had been the recipients of " loans " never meant to be repaid ) , and I believe they would have followed ...
... things were so bad with them that there was little prospect of making them worse . Some were friends of the Captain ( and possibly had been the recipients of " loans " never meant to be repaid ) , and I believe they would have followed ...
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... things of a type I never had seen before , accus- tomed as I was to San Francisco , - baleen and bones of whales , a stuffed man - eating shark of enormous size and striking natural- ness , rare specimens of beautiful coral , the dried ...
... things of a type I never had seen before , accus- tomed as I was to San Francisco , - baleen and bones of whales , a stuffed man - eating shark of enormous size and striking natural- ness , rare specimens of beautiful coral , the dried ...
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aboard asked Atollia Banks beach beachcomber beautiful Bill Banks birds boat breeze cannibal Captain Swanson carry cave chiefs cocoanuts colonists colony colors coral dark dead death deck devils Doctor Saville dream eager enemies exclaimed eyes face fear fell fired followed forest ghosts give guess hand happy heart hope hour island Judge Davis knew land laws light live looked man's marriage morning mystery natives ness never night nists O'Fallon papier-mâché phonographs picture plans reef replied Reverend Lovejoy Robinson Crusoe Rosalie rulers sail San Francisco seemed ship ship's sight somest soon sound South Seas speech spirit stood strange surf surroundings Taipu talk tapa tattooed there's things thought thrilled tion told trees tropical trouble tufa Tuna village voice voyage waves wild wind women wonder wood words young
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Page 1 - MASTER of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait. Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel and mart and palace— soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate! If sleeping, wake — if feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate, And they who follow me reach every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe Save death; but those who doubt or hesitate, Condemned to failure, penury, and woe, Seek me in vain and...
Page 115 - The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sunrise, the first South Sea island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense.
Page 274 - But I know pleasure still; pleasure with a thousand faces, and none perfect, a thousand tongues all broken, a thousand hands, and all of them with scratching nails. High among these I place this delight of weeding out here alone by the garrulous water, under the silence of the high wood, broken by incongruous sounds of birds.
Page 179 - It is the Golden Age of which poets have sung and high-raised seers have told in metaphor! It is the glorious vision which has always haunted man with gleams of fitful splendor. It is what he saw whose eyes at Patmos were closed in a trance. It is the culmination of Christianity — the City of God on earth, with its walls of jasper and its gates of pearl! It is the reign of the Prince of Peace!
Page 172 - a community of persons living within certain limits of territory, under a permanent organization which aims to secure the prevalence of justice by selfimposed law.
Page 78 - He is trying to eliminate from civilisation the discipline of poverty, and the Son of Man had not where to lay His head...
Page 104 - This was not to be wondered at when it is remembered that the population of Thurso is under 4000, and that the adjoining agricultural districts are thinly peopled.
Page 142 - Atollian girl was so dear to me that I could not bear the thought of...
Page 267 - ... swift the noisy years of effort become the silent years of history. And...
Page 24 - m not going there to rob 'em the way some of the missionaries have done, with a Bible in one hand and a flag in the other, and avarice and deceit in their hearts.