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A Set of Six

A Set of Six

Conrad, Joseph

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Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesGeneral Education

ISBN10: 1491094087
ISBN13: 9781491094082
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 26 2013
Pages: 314
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.66 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
Excerpt: ...a very good place to live in. He had good prospects, some little money laid by, and the affection of two excellent friends. He offered to pay for all the drinks after dinner, which was only proper on his part. They drank more wine; they drank liqueurs, cognac, beer, then more liqueurs and more cognac. Two strangers sitting at the next table looked at him, he said, with so much friendliness, that he invited them to join the party. He had never drunk so much in his life. His elation was extreme, and so pleasurable that whenever it flagged he hastened to order more drinks. It seemed to me, he said, in his quiet tone and looking on the ground in the gloomy shed full of shadows, that I was on the point of just attaining a great and wonderful felicity. Another drink, I felt, would do it. The others were holding out well with me, glass for glass. But an extraordinary thing happened. At something the strangers said his elation fell. Gloomy ideas

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