 Of course in this you fellows see more than I could then. You see me, whom you know. . . ." It had become so pitch dark that we listeners could hardly see one another. For a long time already he, sitting apart, had been no more to us than a voice. There...  Youth: And Two Other Stories - Page 94by Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 381 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1899 - 1284 pages
...awake. I listened, I listened on the watch for the sentence, for the word, that would give me the clue to the faint uneasiness inspired by this narrative...behind me. I did ! And there was nothing behind me ! There was nothing but that wretched, old, mangled steamboat I was leaning against, while he talked... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 410 pages
...did not see — you understand. He was just word for me. I did not see the man in the name any mere than you do. Do you see him? Do you see the story?...behind me. I did ! And there was nothing behind me ! " There was nothing but that wretched, old, mangled steamboat I was leaning against, while he talked... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 440 pages
...awake. I listened, I listened on the watch for the sentence, for the word, that would give me the clue to the faint uneasiness inspired by this narrative...behind me. I did ! And there was nothing behind me ! There was nothing but that wretched, old, mangled steamboat I was leaning against, while he talked... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 368 pages
...awake. I listened, I listened on the watch for the sentence, for the word, that would give me the clue to the faint uneasiness inspired by this narrative...behind me. I did ! And there was nothing behind me! There was nothing but that wretched, old, mangled steamboat I was leaning against, while he talked... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 360 pages
...awake. I listened, I listened on the watch for the sentence, for the word, that would give me the clue to the faint uneasiness inspired by this narrative...without human lips in the heavy night-air of the river. ". . . Yes—I let him run on," Marlow began again, "and think what he pleased about the powers that... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 2004 - 205 pages
...awake. I listened, I listened on the watch for the sentence, for the word, that would give me the clue to the faint uneasiness inspired by this narrative...lips in the heavy night-air of the river. ". . . Yes — 1 let him run on," Marlow began again, "and think what he pleased about the powers that were behind... | |
 | Cornelia Niekus Moore, Raymond A. Moody - 1989 - 244 pages
...awake. I listened, I listened on the watch for the sentence, for the word, that would give me the clue to the faint uneasiness inspired by this narrative...itself without human lips in the heavy night-air of the river.19 Like Pili or Conrad's Marlow, the novelistic third-person narrator — the narrator of Pouliuli,... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1990 - 84 pages
...that seemed to shape itself without human lips in the heavy night air of the river. "„ . . Yes^I let him run on," Marlow began again, "and think what...behind me. I did! And there was nothing behind me! There was nothing but that wretched, old, mangled steamboat 1 was leaning against, while he talked... | |
 | Richard Ambrosini - 1991 - 274 pages
...awake. I listened, I listened on the watch for the sentence, for the word, that would give me the clue to the faint uneasiness inspired by this narrative...without human lips in the heavy night-air of the river. (83) Here, the frame narrator brings out, as if he were a litmus paper, the intellectual and emotional... | |
 | Christopher Collins - 1991 - 226 pages
...watch for the sentence, the word, that would give me the clew to the faint uneasiness inspired by the narrative that seemed to shape itself without human lips in the heavy night-air of the river. (82-83) The visual image of the diegetic messenger, his perceptual presence, now as the darkness advances,... | |
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