Who's that grunting? You wonder I didn't go ashore for a howl and a dance? Well, no - I didn't. Fine sentiments, you say? Fine sentiments, be hanged! I had no time. I had to mess about with white-lead and strips of woolen blanket helping to put bandages... Youth, and Two Other Stories: By Joseph Conrad ... - Page 97by Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 339 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1899 - 1284 pages
...admit, but I have a voice too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced. Of course, a fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments,...sentiments, you say? Fine sentiments, be hanged ! I had no tune. I had to mess about with whitelead and strips of woollen blanket helping to put bandages on those... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 394 pages
...admit, but I have a voice too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced. Of course, a fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments,...I had to mess about with white-lead and strips of woolen blanket helping to put bandages on those leaky steam-pipes — I tell you. . I had to watch... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 410 pages
...admit, but I have a voice too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced. Of course, a. fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments,...I had to mess about with white-lead and strips of woolen blanket helping to put bandages on those leaky steam-pipes — I tell you. I had to watch the... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 360 pages
...admit, but I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced. Of course, a fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments, is always safe. Who's TEat gTUnfing? ^ou wonder! didn't go ashore for a howl and a dance? Well, no — I didn't. Fine sentiments,... | |
| 1900 - 874 pages
...Very well. I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced. Of course a fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments,...be hanged! I had no time. I had to mess about with white lead and strips of woollen blanket helping to put bandages on those leaky steampipes— I tell... | |
| Charles Child Walcutt - 380 pages
...later, when he is challenged by one of his auditors with having uttered "fine sentiments," he replies, "Fine sentiments, be hanged! I had no time. I had to mess about with white lead and strips of woolen blanket ... on those leaky steam pipes." The action presumably will... | |
| Ian Watt - 1981 - 400 pages
...as Marlow does, that there is "an appeal to me in this fiendish row"; as for others, he continues, "a fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments, is always safe." Marlow is implicitly dividing civilised man into three categories: those who respond to savagery and... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 2004 - 205 pages
...admit, but I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced. Of course, a fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments,...I had to mess about with white-lead and strips of woolen blanket helping to put bandages on those leaky steampipes — I tell you. I had to watch the... | |
| Michael Harry Levenson - 1986 - 272 pages
...avoids the temptation of atavism, not by invoking "fine sentiments," but by applying himself to work. Fine sentiments, be hanged! I had no time. I had to mess about with white-lead and strips of woolen blanket helping to put bandages on those leaky steampipes - I tell you. I had to watch the steering,... | |
| Douglas Tallack - 1987 - 236 pages
...narrative. The most obvious instance is when he enters into a dialogue with their expected objections: ' "You wonder I didn't go ashore for a howl and a dance?...you say? Fine sentiments, be hanged! I had no time" ' (p. 69). It is perhaps worth noting the double set of quotation-marks here. In later passages cited... | |
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