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Lord Jim

CHAPTER 10
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Can't you?
You see it--don't you?
No harm! Good God! What more could they have done?
Oh yes, I know very well--I jumped.Certainly.I jumped! I told you I jumped; but I tell you they were too much for any man.

It was their doing as plainly as if they had reached up with a boat-hook and pulled me over.

Can't you see it?
You must see it.Come.

Speak--straight out." 'His uneasy eyes fastened upon mine, questioned, begged, challenged, entreated.

For the life of me I couldn't help murmuring, "You've been tried." "More than is fair," he caught up swiftly.


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