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Lord Jim

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Lord Jim

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01 CHAPTER 1 He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a
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02 CHAPTER 2 After two years of training he went to sea, and entering the regions so well known to his
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03 CHAPTER 3 A marvellous stillness pervaded the world, and the stars, together with the serenity of their rays,
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04 CHAPTER 4 A month or so afterwards, when Jim, in answer to pointed questions, tried to tell honestly the truth
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05 CHAPTER 5 'Oh yes. I attended the inquiry,' he would say, 'and to this day I haven't left off wondering why I went.
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06 CHAPTER 6 'The authorities were evidently of the same opinion. The inquiry was not adjourned. It was held on
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07 CHAPTER 7 'An outward-bound mail-boat had come in that afternoon, and the big dining-room of the hotel was
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08 CHAPTER 8 'How long he stood stock-still by the hatch expecting every moment to feel the ship dip under his
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09 CHAPTER 9 ' "I was saying to myself, 'Sink--curse you! Sink!' " These were the words with which he began again.
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10 CHAPTER 10 'He locked his fingers together and tore them apart. Nothing could be more true: he had indeed
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11 CHAPTER 11 'He heard me out with his head on one side, and I had another glimpse through a rent in the mist in
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12 CHAPTER 12 'All around everything was still as far as the ear could reach. The mist of his feelings shifted between
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13 CHAPTER 13 'After these words, and without a change of attitude, he, so to speak, submitted himself passively to a
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14 CHAPTER 14 'I slept little, hurried over my breakfast, and after a slight hesitation gave up my early morning visit
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15 CHAPTER 15 'I did not start in search of Jim at once, only because I had really an appointment which I could not
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16 CHAPTER 16 'The time was coming when I should see him loved, trusted, admired, with a legend of strength and
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17 CHAPTER 17 'He came in at last; but I believe it was mostly the rain that did it; it was falling just then with a
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18 CHAPTER 18 'Six months afterwards my friend (he was a cynical, more than middle-aged bachelor, with a
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19 CHAPTER 19 'I have told you these two episodes at length to show his manner of dealing with himself under the
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20 CHAPTER 20 'Late in the evening I entered his study, after traversing an imposing but empty dining-room very
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21 CHAPTER 21 'I don't suppose any of you have ever heard of Patusan?' Marlow resumed, after a silence occupied in
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22 CHAPTER 22 'The conquest of love, honour, men's confidence--the pride of it, the power of it, are fit materials for a
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23 CHAPTER 23 'He did not return till next morning. He had been kept to dinner and for the night. There never had
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24 CHAPTER 24 'The coast of Patusan (I saw it nearly two years afterwards) is straight and sombre, and faces a misty
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25 CHAPTER 25 ' "This is where I was prisoner for three days," he murmured to me (it was on the occasion of our
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26 CHAPTER 26 'Doramin was one of the most remarkable men of his race I had ever seen. His bulk for a Malay was
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27 CHAPTER 27 'Already the legend had gifted him with supernatural powers. Yes, it was said, there had been many
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28 CHAPTER 28 'The defeated Sherif Ali fled the country without making another stand, and when the miserable
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29 CHAPTER 29 'This was the theory of Jim's marital evening walks. I made a third on more than one occasion,
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30 CHAPTER 30 'He told me further that he didn't know what made him hang on--but of course we may guess. He
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31 CHAPTER 31 'You may imagine with what interest I listened. All these details were perceived to have some
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32 CHAPTER 32 'Jim took up an advantageous position and shepherded them out in a bunch through the doorway: all
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33 CHAPTER 33 'I was immensely touched: her youth, her ignorance, her pretty beauty, which had the simple charm
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34 CHAPTER 34 Marlow swung his legs out, got up quickly, and staggered a little, as though he had been set down
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35 CHAPTER 35 'But next morning, at the first bend of the river shutting off the houses of Patusan, all this dropped
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36 CHAPTER 36 With these words Marlow had ended his narrative, and his audience had broken up forthwith, under
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37 CHAPTER 37 'It all begins with a remarkable exploit of a man called Brown, who stole with complete success a
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38 CHAPTER 38 'It all begins, as I've told you, with the man called Brown,' ran the opening sentence of Marlow's
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39 CHAPTER 39 'All the events of that night have a great importance, since they brought about a situation which
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40 CHAPTER 40 'Brown's object was to gain time by fooling with Kassim's diplomacy. For doing a real stroke of
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41 CHAPTER 41 'To the very last moment, till the full day came upon them with a spring, the fires on the west bank
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42 CHAPTER 42 'I don't think he could do more than perhaps look upon that straight path. He seemed to have been
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43 CHAPTER 43 'Tamb' Itam behind his chair was thunderstruck. The declaration produced an immense sensation.
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44 CHAPTER 44 'I don't think they spoke together again. The boat entered a narrow by-channel, where it was pushed
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45 CHAPTER 45 'When Tamb' Itam, paddling madly, came into the town-reach, the women, thronging the platforms
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