“ The world is a bad dog. It will bite you if you give it a chance ”
Joseph Conrad, Victory: An Island Tale (1915). copy citation
| Author | Joseph Conrad |
|---|---|
| Source | Victory: An Island Tale |
| Topic | chance dog |
| Date | 1915 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6378/6378-h/6378-h.htm |
Context
““Odious enough, I dare say. And you, of course—not being a married man—were free to step in. Ah, well!”
He sat down in the stern-sheets, and already had the steering lines in his hands when Heyst observed abruptly:
“The world is a bad dog. It will bite you if you give it a chance; but I think that here we can safely defy the fates.”
When relating all this to me, Davidson's only comment was:
“Funny notion of defying the fates—to take a woman in tow!”
CHAPTER SEVEN
Some considerable time afterwards—we did not meet very often—I asked Davidson how he had managed about the shawl and heard that he had tackled his mission in a direct way, and had found it easy enough.”
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