Chance - A Tale in Two Parts

Chance, by Joseph Conrad
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Title: Chance Author: Joseph Conrad Release Date: March 17, 2005 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) [eBook #1476]
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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 ...