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" You can't understand. How could you? — with solid pavement under your feet, surrounded by kind neighbours ready to cheer you or to fall on you, stepping delicately between the butcher and the policeman, in the holy terror of scandal and gallows and... "
Youth: And Two Other Stories - Page 116
by Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 339 pages
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Youth: And Two Other Stories

Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 394 pages
...— trying to imagine. He had taken a high seat amongst the devils of the land — I mean literallj;. You can't understand. How could you? — with solid pavement under your feet, surrounded by kind neighbors ready to cheer you or to fall on you, stepping delicately between the butcher and the policeman,...
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Youth: And Two Other Stories

Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 410 pages
...— trying to imagine. He had taken a high seat amongst the devils of the land — I mean literally. You can't understand. How could you? — with solid pavement under your feet, surrounded by kind neighbors res^dy to cheer you or to fall on you, stepping delicately between the butcher and the policeman,...
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Youth: And Two Other Stories

Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 398 pages
...can't understand. How could you? — with solid pavement under your feet, surrounded by kind neighbors ready to cheer you or to fall on you, stepping delicately between the butcher and the policeman, in the I holy terror of scandal and gallows and lunatic asylums I — how can you imagine what particular...
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Complete Works, Volume 16

Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 360 pages
...— trying to imagine. He had taken a high seat amongst the devils of the land — I mean literally. You can't understand. How could you? — with solid...delicately between the butcher and the policeman., fp fhft hojv_terrQr of_scandal and gaUp_ws_and lunatic asylums — howjcan you imagine j^a^articujar...
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The Living Age, Volume 226

1900 - 874 pages
...either— to try and imagine. He had taken a high seat amongst the devils of the land— I mean literally. You can't understand. How could you — with solid pavement under your feet, surrounded by kind neighbors ready to cheer you or fall on you, stepping delicately between the butcher and the policeman,...
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The Origins of Totalitarianism

Hannah Arendt - 1973 - 580 pages
...experience among black savages and ruled over them in absolute lawlessness, unchecked by "kind neighbors ready to cheer you or to fall on you stepping delicately...terror of scandal and gallows and lunatic asylums" (Conrad). Ruling over tribes and living parasitically from their labor, they came to occupy a position...
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Conrad's Western World

Norman Sherry - 1971 - 484 pages
...excellent appetites, and temperature normal . . . from year's end to year's end' (p. 114). And later: You can't understand. How could you? — with solid...surrounded by kind neighbours ready to cheer you or to fall 116 on you, stepping delicately between the butcher and the policemen, in the holy terror of scandal...
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A Common Spring: Crime Novel and Classic

Nadya Aisenberg - 1979 - 292 pages
...could you?—with solid pavements under your feet, surrounded by kind neighbors ready to cheer you or fall on you, stepping delicately between the butcher and the policeman, in holy terror of scandal and gallows and lunatic asylums—how can you imagine what particular regions...
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Qualitative Research in Education: Focus and Methods

Robert R. Sherman, Rodman B. Webb - 1988 - 232 pages
...paradoxical, that which escapes logic and the hold of reason. 'You can't understand,' Marlow tells them. 'How could you? — with solid pavement under your...feet, surrounded by kind neighbours ready to cheer you r. to fall on you, stepping delicately between the butcher and the policeir .n, in the holy terror...
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Waking Giants: The Presence of the Past in Modernism

Herbert N. Schneidau - 1991 - 294 pages
...brought on by the atavistic power of the wilderness, because they live like Winnie before her last hours, "stepping delicately between the butcher and the policeman,...terror of scandal and gallows and lunatic asylums." The trip up the Congo has been a journey to the "earliest beginnings of the world," into prehistory....
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