Joseph Conrad
Chance
eBook
( Jan. 13, 2018)
Apparently a two part story about a Damsel and a Knight, perhaps a damsel who depends upon the kindness of strangers. It was originally entitled "Dynamite" and first published by installments in the New York Herald. The book itself was the biggest commercial success for Conrad up until that time, 1913. It allowed Conrad for the first time to settle his financial affairs. The author's disdain for people who live on the land is apparent. A new understanding of the word "enthusiastic" is promulgated. And it is a love story. Let us see how the tale goes.
First Page:
Transcribed form the 1914 Methuen & Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
CHANCE A TALE IN TWO PARTS
Those that hold that all things are governed by Fortune had not erred, had they not persisted there
SIR THOMAS BROWNE
TO SIR HUGH CLIFFORD, K.C.M.G. WHO STEADFAST FRIENDSHIP IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF THESE PAGES
PART I THE DAMSEL
CHAPTER ONE YOUNG POWELL AND HIS CHANCE
I believe he had seen us out of the window coming off to dine in the dinghy of a fourteen ton yawl belonging to Marlow my host and skipper. We helped the boy we had with us to haul the boat up on the landing stage before we went up to the riverside inn, where we found our new acquaintance eating his dinner in dignified loneliness at the head of a long table, white and inhospitable like a snow bank.
The red tint of his clear cut face with trim short black whiskers under a cap of curly iron grey hair was the only warm spot in the dinginess of that room cooled by the cheerless tablecloth. We knew him already by sight as the owner of a little five ton cutter, which he sailed alone apparently, a fellow yachtsman in the unpretending band of fanatics who cruise at the mouth of the Thames...
First Page:
Transcribed form the 1914 Methuen & Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
CHANCE A TALE IN TWO PARTS
Those that hold that all things are governed by Fortune had not erred, had they not persisted there
SIR THOMAS BROWNE
TO SIR HUGH CLIFFORD, K.C.M.G. WHO STEADFAST FRIENDSHIP IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF THESE PAGES
PART I THE DAMSEL
CHAPTER ONE YOUNG POWELL AND HIS CHANCE
I believe he had seen us out of the window coming off to dine in the dinghy of a fourteen ton yawl belonging to Marlow my host and skipper. We helped the boy we had with us to haul the boat up on the landing stage before we went up to the riverside inn, where we found our new acquaintance eating his dinner in dignified loneliness at the head of a long table, white and inhospitable like a snow bank.
The red tint of his clear cut face with trim short black whiskers under a cap of curly iron grey hair was the only warm spot in the dinginess of that room cooled by the cheerless tablecloth. We knew him already by sight as the owner of a little five ton cutter, which he sailed alone apparently, a fellow yachtsman in the unpretending band of fanatics who cruise at the mouth of the Thames...
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