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Lord Jim

CHAPTER 10
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Why this impulse?
Do you see the significance?
Why back to the very spot?
Why not drown alongside--if he meant drowning?
Why back to the very spot, to see--as if his imagination had to be soothed by the assurance that all was over before death could bring relief?
I defy any one of you to offer another explanation.

It was one of those bizarre and exciting glimpses through the fog.

It was an extraordinary disclosure.
He let it out as the most natural thing one could say.

He fought down that impulse and then he became conscious of the silence.

He mentioned this to me.


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