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Lord Jim

CHAPTER 5
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They are trampling on me! Wait! Oh, wait! I'll smash them in heaps like flies.

Wait for me! Help! H-e-elp!" An interminable and sustained howl completed my discomfiture.

I saw in the distance the accident case raise deplorably both his hands to his bandaged head; a dresser, aproned to the chin showed himself in the vista of the ward, as if seen in the small end of a telescope.

I confessed myself fairly routed, and without more ado, stepping out through one of the long windows, escaped into the outside gallery.

The howl pursued me like a vengeance.


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