...W ITHIN THE T IDES Four Stories by Joseph Conrad from the 1919 J. M. Dent edition A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS S ERIES... .................................... 119 4 Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad from the 1919 J. M. Dent edition THE PLANTER OF MALATA CHAPTER I IN THE PRI... ... was old. He had been an emi- nent colonial statesman, but had now retired from active poli- tics after a tour in Europe and a lengthy stay in England... ...plants. Forgot there was such a thing probably. I must say there were more people there than I ex- pected to meet. Quite a big party.” “I was asked,” ... ...s. I don’t know how it is that, when I come to town, the appearance of the people in the street strike me with such force. They seem so awfully expres... ...sly. I take the plantation boys for granted.” “W ell, and we here take the people in the streets for granted. And that’s sanity.” The visitor said not... .... The woman of the house—a widow lady, she called herself—very full of Mr. Stafford; Mr. Stafford this and Mr. Stafford that… Anyhow, Cloete one eveni... ...ard by the strap and yell, ‘tuppence all the way.’ Through drink. But this Stafford was of another kind. Hell’s full of such Staffords; Cloete would m... ...and now and then gave him half a crown—because the widow lady kept Mr. 77 Stafford short of pocket-money. They had rows almost every day down in the ...

...ted, together with Sir Robert Naunton’s “Fragmenta Regalia,” in the volume from which they are here reprinted, with notes by the translator and the ed... ...beth sent thither as Ambassa- dor, and was despatched to Elizabeth’s court from Scotland as a trusty messenger. In 1596-7 he was in France, and cor- r... ... wholesomest soil in England. It is built on the river Thames, sixty miles from the sea, and was originally founded, as all historians agree, by Brutu... ...its antiquity; though others think it to have been named Elbegate. Several people believe that there were formerly two gates (besides that to the brid... ... thy kingdom shall be translated to another, whose manner and language the people under thee knoweth not. Nor shall thy sin be done away till after lo... ...seventh, not without suspicion of poison. Mary was proclaimed queen by the people on the 19th of July, and died in November, 1558, and is buried in so... ...devolved to his daughter. Brook, Baron Cobham, Warden of the Cinque Ports. Stafford, Baron Stafford, reduced to want; he is heir to the family of the ... ... of the greatest always of the Austrian embracements, for both himself and Stafford that preceded him might well have been compared to him in the Gosp...