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Excerpt: A Smile of Fortune--Harbour Story by Joseph Conrad.

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...A SMILE OF FORTUNE HARBOUR STORY by Joseph Conrad A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS S ERIES P UBLICA TION A Smile of... ...CLASSICS S ERIES P UBLICA TION A Smile of Fortune—Harbour Story by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable... ...ronic transmission, in any way. A Smile of Fortune—Harbour Story by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim ... ...e?” By that time he had raised his eyebrows too but without any particular emotion. On the contrary he struck me then as ab- solutely imperturbable. “... ...high matters at that— ships, freights, business. In the instability of his emotions man resembles deplorably a monkey. I was disgusted with my thought... ...sence, which, suggesting his brother the merchant, had caused me to become outrageous to myself. For indeed I had preserved some decency of feeling. I... ...een spoken to by a strange man adding to my assurance. I don’t know why an emotional tense- 34 A Smile of Fortune ness should have crept into the sit... ...hat old woman. What if she ordered me to depart? She seemed capable of any outrage. She had snorted once or twice; she was knitting violently. Suddenl... ...s say, with Miss Jacobus, that it is for no good. Y ou seem to believe the outrageous things she says, if you do have a row with her now and then.” Sh...

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...FREYA OF THE SEVEN ISLES by Joseph Conrad A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS S ERIES P UBLICA TION Freya of t... ...CTRONIC CLASSICS S ERIES P UBLICA TION Freya of the Seven Isles by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portab... ...an electronic transmission, in any way. Freya of the Seven Isles by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas- sics Series, Ji... ...lowed him up there, and found him pacing to and fro; for the nature of his emotions made him restless even in his most thoughtful moments. 17 Joseph ... ...only lan- guid phrases on things without importance, as though we had been emotionally jaded by our long day’s talk on the only mo- mentous subject. A... ...not blame Jasper for not wasting his time in corre- spondence with such an outrageous relative. But why didn’t he write to me -a decent sort of friend... ...houghts. “Is that how you entertain your visitors—you . . “ he thought, so outraged that he could not find a sufficiently degrading epithet. Freya str... ...n a chair near the doorway and kept 35 Joseph Conrad her eyes on him. The outraged lieutenant had not changed his attitude; only his cap had fallen o... ...harm to you, Captain Allen. I feel it, and I—” He choked with inexplicable emotion. “All right, Schultz. I won’t give him an opening.” Jasper cut him ...

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Excerpt: Nostromo. A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad.

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...Nostromo A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Nostromo: A Tal... ...IC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable... ...ronic transmission, in any way. Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tronic Classics Series, Ji... ...as cool a hand as was possible in the heat and clash of my own conflicting emotions. And after all this is also the story of their conflicts. It is fo... ... the province had been warned off with threats of violence. In other cases outrageous pre- tensions as to price had been raised. But the man of railwa... ...ted to himself the disadvantages of his new position, because he viewed it emotionally. His po- sition in Costaguana was no worse than before. But man... ...s a desperately conservative creature, and the extravagant novelty of this outrage upon his purse distressed his sensibilities. Everybody around him w... ... nothing but the mine. He groaned over the injustice, the persecution, the outrage of that mine; he occupied whole pages in the exposition of the fata... ...ss. He owed it to the dead man’s memory. Such were the—prop- erly speaking—emotions of Charles Gould. His thoughts ran upon the means of raising a lar...

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Excerpt: Tales of Unrest by Joseph Conrad.

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...Chance A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad From the 1914 Methuen & Co. edition. A Penn State Electronic Classic... ...ctronic Classics Series Publication Chance: A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portab... ...electronic transmission, in any way. Chance: A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim ... ...ent touched me in the pit of the stom- ach (you know that’s the spot where emotion gets home on a man) for it was borne upon me that really and truly ... ...ecause the late indignant poet had no discretion and sought to avenge this outrage pub- licly in some absurd way before a bewigged judge. The de- ject... ...tified existence it must have been for a woman as avid of all the sensuous emotions which life can give as most of her betters. She had seen her youth... ...ndering the representative victim as it were insensible. The cause of this outrage naturally escaping the girl’s imagination her attitude was in effec... ... couple of years afterwards, and remained al- ways liable at the slightest emotion to an extraordinary ghost- like whiteness. The end came in the abom... ...ed beyond measure, as he well might have been. He doubted his ears. He was outraged. “Eh? What? Can’t love you? What do you know about it? It’s my aff...

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Excerpt: An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad.

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... PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Set of Six by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable... ...the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Set of Six by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim ... ...................................223 4 A Set of Six A Set of Six by Joseph Conrad TO MISS M. H. M. CAPES AUTHOR’S NOTE THE SIX STORIES in this volume ... ...oo, like to see mischief being made. The demagogue carries the amateurs of emotion with him. Amateurism in this, that, and the other thing is a deligh... ...ed out that he was as hoarse as a crow; re- sult, no doubt, of the intense emotion. It passed off in a moment. But these fateful words issued forth fr... ... drunk late at night), he had not the slightest doubt of being himself the outraged party. He had had two experienced friends for his seconds. Everyth... ...idence as to that some- thing which had passed between them of a nature so outrageous as to make them face a charge of mur- der—neither more nor less.... ...e was doing. He had hastened to recommend his favourite for a step. It was outrageous that a man should be able to avoid the consequences of his acts ... ... felt an irrational tenderness towards his old adversary and appreci- ated emotionally the murderous absurdity their en- counter had introduced into h...

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...The Arrow of Gold A Story Between Two Notes by Joseph Conrad A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Arrow of ... ...ennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Joseph Conrad The Arrow of Gold A Story Between Two Notes by Joseph Conrad FIRST N... ...illegal enterprise in the Gulf of Mexico. At once it occurred to 5 Joseph Conrad Mills that this eccentric youngster was the very person for what the... ... slight movement in his chair. The effect on me was more inward, a strange emotion which left me perfectly still; and for the moment of silence Blunt ... ...se, being pro- voked by the way she looked about at the scenery, ‘A little emotion, eh?’ And she answered me in a low voice: ‘Oh, yes! I am moved. I u... ...at the beginning and the end of it are merged in one sensation of profound emotion, continuous and overpowering, containing the extremes of exultation... ... thoughts like her own, till the poor dear child drove her off because she outraged his mod- 113 Joseph Conrad esty? I saw him often with his parents... ... to weep these strange tears, was noth- 117 Joseph Conrad ing short of an outrageous liberty. It was a mere emotional trick. She would have just as s... .... But, really, I could not have given her any intelligible excuse for that outrage. Moreover, she was very busy from the very top to the very bottom o...