Joseph Conrad

Name: The Rescue — PART V. THE POINT OF HONOUR AND THE POINT OF PASSIONChapter IV
Author: Joseph Conrad

The Rescue — PART V. THE POINT OF HONOUR AND THE POINT OF PASSIONChapter IV (1920)

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“The Rescue — PART V. THE POINT OF HONOUR AND THE POINT OF PASSIONChapter IV”, published in 1920, is a work by Joseph Conrad. It explores elements such as Lingard, sandbank and Belarab.

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Joseph Conrad, The Rescue — PART V. THE POINT OF HONOUR AND THE POINT OF PASSIONChapter IV (1920)

“ To Lingard it was a blow struck straight at his heart.
He was not angry with Carter. The fellow had acted like a seaman. Carter's concern was for the ships. In this fatality Carter was a mere incident. The real cause of the disaster was somewhere else, was other, and more remote. And at the same time Lingard could not defend himself from a feeling that it was in himself, too, somewhere in the unexplored depths of his nature, something fatal and unavoidable. He muttered to himself:
"No. I am not a lucky man." ”

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Joseph Conrad, The Rescue — PART V. THE POINT OF HONOUR AND THE POINT OF PASSIONChapter IV (1920)

“ Mrs. Travers looked away. She understood that she had put to Lingard an impossible question. What was presenting itself to her as a problem was to that man a crisis of feeling. Obviously Carter's action had broken the compact entered into with Daman, and she was intelligent enough to understand that it was the sort of thing that could not be explained away. It wasn't horror that she felt, but a sort of consternation, something like the discomfiture of people who have just missed their train. ”

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Joseph Conrad, The Rescue — PART V. THE POINT OF HONOUR AND THE POINT OF PASSIONChapter IV (1920)

“ He seems only too anxious to try to get to you as soon as possible. I repeat, ships and men have been made safe and I don't mean to give you up dead or alive.
"You are quick in taking the point," said Lingard in a dull voice, while Mrs. Travers, with the sheet of paper gripped in her hand, looked into his face with anxious eyes. "He has been smart and no mistake." ”

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Joseph Conrad, The Rescue — PART V. THE POINT OF HONOUR AND THE POINT OF PASSIONChapter IV (1920)

“ I don't know why. I didn't look at you more than at anybody else. It took me all my time to keep my temper down lest it should burn you all up. I didn't want to be rude to you people, but I found it wasn't very easy because threats were the only argument I had. Was I very offensive, Mrs. Travers?"
She had listened tense and very attentive, almost stern. And it was without the slightest change of expression that she said:
"I think that you bore yourself appropriately to the state of life to which it has pleased God to call you."
"What state?" muttered Lingard to himself. "I am what I am. ”

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Joseph Conrad, The Rescue — PART V. THE POINT OF HONOUR AND THE POINT OF PASSIONChapter IV (1920)

“ Travers looked round and sat down in the chair. Her strength failed her but she remained austere with her hands resting on the arms of her seat. Lingard sighed deeply and dropped his eyes. She did not dare relax her muscles for fear of breaking down altogether and betraying a reckless impulse which lurked at the bottom of her dismay, to seize the head of d'Alcacer's Man of Fate, press it to her breast once, fling it far away, and vanish herself, vanish out of life like a wraith. The Man of Fate sat silent and bowed, yet with a suggestion of strength in his dejection. ”

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Joseph Conrad, The Rescue — PART V. THE POINT OF HONOUR AND THE POINT OF PASSIONChapter IV (1920)

“ Travers.
"No, he didn't know. But could I take everybody into my confidence?" protested Lingard in the same low tone. "And yet who else could I trust? It seemed to me that he must have understood without being told. But he is too young. He may well be proud according to his lights. He has done that job outside very smartly—damn his smartness! ”

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Joseph Conrad, The Rescue — PART V. THE POINT OF HONOUR AND THE POINT OF PASSIONChapter IV (1920)

“ Then we got the long gun to bear and in about an hour we had the bottom knocked out of the two praus. The savages on the bank howled and screamed at every shot. They are mighty angry but I don't care for their anger now, for by sinking their praus I have made them as harmless as a flock of lambs. ”

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Joseph Conrad, The Rescue — PART V. THE POINT OF HONOUR AND THE POINT OF PASSIONChapter IV (1920)

“ They needn't starve on their sandbank because they have two or three dugouts hauled up on the sand and they may ferry themselves and their women to the mainland whenever they like.
I fancy I have acted as a seaman and as a seaman I intend to go on acting. Now I have made the ships safe I shall set about without loss of time trying to get the yacht off the mud. When that's done I shall arm the boats and proceed inshore to look for you and the yacht's gentry, and shan't rest till I know whether any or all of you are above the earth yet. ”

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