 Who knows? He is gone, inscrutable at heart, and the poor girl is leading a sort of soundless, inert life in Stein's house. Stein has aged greatly of late. He feels it himself, and says often that he is 'preparing to leave all this; preparing to leave...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 5551900Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 410 pages
...deliberately his right, shot his son's friend through the chest. " The crowd, which had fallen apart br-hind Jim as soon as Doramin had raised his hand, rushed...leading a sort of soundless, inert life in Stein's home. Stein has aged greatly of late. He feels it himself, and says often that he is ' preparing to... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 422 pages
...right and left at all those faces a proud and unflinching glance. Then, i^thhTs hanTTbTe'rTiis lipi^e fell forward, dead. "And that's the end. He passes...leading a sort of soundless, inert life in Stein's home. Stein has aged greatly of late. He feels it himself, and says often that he is ' preparing to... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Fiction - 1905 - 408 pages
...inscrutable at heart, and tbe poor girl is leading a sort of soundless, inert life in Stein"* home. Stein has aged greatly of late. He feels it himself,...preparing to leave, . . .' while he waves his hand sadly ai his butterflies." THE BORROWER WILL BE CHARGED AN OVERDUE FEE IF THIS BOOK IS NOT RETURNED... | |
 | Richard Curle - 1914 - 266 pages
...have not yet made use of — one from a novel, and one from a story. The first is from Lord Jim : — Stein has aged greatly of late. He feels it himself,...; preparing to leave, ..." while he waves his hand sadly at his butterflies. (Lord Jim, p. 451.) And the second is from " Heart of Darkness ": — Marlow... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 540 pages
...from my eyes like a disembodied spirit astray amongst the passions of this earth, ready to surrender himself faithfully to the claim of his own world of...preparing to leave . . .' while he waves his hand sadly at his butterflies." THE END 34 nUMTKD IT MORRISON AND C1BB LTD. EDINBURGH WORKS OF JOSEPH CONRAD... | |
 | 1921 - 400 pages
...Do you remember that last paragraph of Conrad, the finality of Lord Jim and cowardice, which runs, "Who knows ? He is gone inscrutable at heart, and...this, preparing to leave, ' while he waves his hand sadly at his butterflies." And that is Truth. Inscrutable at heart. . . . See into that with your realism,... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Atonement - 1924 - 440 pages
...from my eyes like a disembodied spirit astray amongst the passions of this earth, ready to surrender himself faithfully to the claim of his own world of...preparing to leave . . .' while he -waves his hand sadly at his butterflies." September 1899— July 1900. THE END THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Fiction - 1993 - 308 pages
...disembodied spirit astray amongst die passions of this earth, ready to surrender himself faidifully to the claim of his own world of shades. 'Who knows?...this; preparing to leave ..." while he waves his hand sadly at his butterflies.' September 1899 -July 1900 NOTES 1 (Tide page) Navalis pseudonym of die German... | |
 | Ursula Lord - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 382 pages
...reader. And yet even there the final word is not said, nor ever can be, even by the oracular Stein: "Who knows? He is gone, inscrutable at heart, and...this; preparing to leave ...' while he waves his hand sadly at his butterflies" (313). In Conrad's anxiety to create a philosophical meditation involving... | |
 | Allan Simmons, John Henry Stape - 2000 - 156 pages
...butterflies together in a multiple leave-taking from which any sense of embarrassment is poignantly absent: He is gone, inscrutable at heart, and the poor girl...preparing to leave . . ." while he waves his hand sadly at his butterflies. (416-17) WORKS CITED Batchelor, John. The Life of Joseph Com ad. Oxford:... | |
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