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Lord Jim

CHAPTER 7
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It was an ecstatic smile that your faces--or mine either--will never wear, my dear boys.

I whisked him back by saying, "If you had stuck to the ship, you mean!" 'He turned upon me, his eyes suddenly amazed and full of pain, with a bewildered, startled, suffering face, as though he had tumbled down from a star.

Neither you nor I will ever look like this on any man.

He shuddered profoundly, as if a cold finger-tip had touched his heart.
Last of all he sighed.
'I was not in a merciful mood.

He provoked one by his contradictory indiscretions.


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