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An Outcast of the Islands Uniform with This Volume in Style and Price J BY THE SAME AUTHOR. ALMAYE RS FOLLY. Some Opinions of the Press. The Daily Chronicle says : ". We have been struck with the book, and know nothing quite like it in recent years. Mr. Conrad may go on, with he \vill find his and confidence ; public, and he deserves his place." " The Manchester Courier says : . The descriptions of scenery and of character are glorious ; the languor the tropics can almost be felt as we read. Mr. Conrad has struck out a new path and gained success therein." " ' ' The Guardian says : Almayer's Folly is one of the most charming romances it has been our fortune to read for many a long day. ... Its chief charm cannot be epitomised ... it lies above all in the pen of Mr. Conrad himself, and we cannot hope to transfer that gift to our own." " ' ' The Saturday Review says : Almayer's Folly is a very powerful story indeed, with effects that will certainly capture the imagination and haunt the memory of the reader. ... It is indeed exceedingly well imagined and well written, and it will certainly secure Mr. Conrad a high place among contemporary story-tellers." " The Speaker says : The Press has already given utterance to very favourable criticisms on the new story, by a new writer, called ' Almayer's Folly.' It remains for us to join in the hope that this may not be the last work from the same pen. The whole story is told with a reticence which serves to make the tragedy more impressive. It is impossible to forget the book. ... If Mr. Conrad can give us another story as striking and as life-like as this his place in our litera- ture ought to be an assured one." " ' The Athenasum says : Almayer's Folly is a genuine piece of work . shows considerable promise. " The Spectator says : This is decidedly a powerful story of an un- common type, and breaks fresh ground in fiction. ... All the leading characters in the book are well drawn, and the parting between father and daughter has a pathetic naturalness unspoiled by straining after effect. There are some admirable passages in the book. The name of Mr. Conrad is new to us, but it appears to us as if he might become the Kipling of the Malay Archipelago." " ' ' The British Weekly says : Almayer's Folly is a valuable contribu- tion to literature. ... In the scenery and atmosphere of the story the hand of the artist reveals itself. The book is to be read and re- read." The Sketch says : ". The dreamy pathos of his scenes, his power of revealing natural beauty, and the delicacy of his style, convince me that in him we have a poetic novelist of uncommon promise." " ' ' The Birmingham Post : Almayer's Folly is a very clever and interesting tale. The story is powerfully written, and holds the reader." LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN. AN OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME IN STYLE AND PRICE. Effie Hetherington. By ROBERT BUCHANAN. The Ebbing of the Tide : South Sea Stories. By Louis BECKE. Paddy's Woman, and Other Stories. By HUMPHREY JAMES. Clara Hopgood. By MARK RUTHERFORD. A First Fleet Family. By Louis BECKE and WALTER JEFFERY. Almayer's Folly, By JOSEPH CONRAD. The Tales of John Oliver Hobbes. With Portrait. The Stickit Minister and Some Common Men. By S. R. CROCKETT. The Lilac Sunbonnet. By S. R. CROCKETT. The Raiders: By S. R. CROCKETT. LONDON : T. FISHER UNWIN. AN OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS BY Joseph Conrad " AUTHOR OF " ALMAYER'S FOLLY Pues el delito mayor Del hombrc es haber nacito CALDERON LONDON T. FISHER UN WIN PATERNOSTER SQUARE MDCCCXCVI PR OLf QS All rights reserved. TO EDWARD LANCELOT SANDERSON PART I, I. WHEN he stepped off the straight and narrow path of his peculiar honesty, it was with an inward assertion of unflinching resolve to fall back again into the monotonous but safe stride of virtue as soon as his little excursion into the wayside quagmires had pro- duced the desired effect. It was going to be a short episode a sentence in brackets, so to speak in the flowing tale of his life : a thing of no moment, to be done unwillingly, yet neatly, and to be quickly for- gotten. He imagined that he could go on afterwards looking at the sunshine, enjoying the shade, breathing in the perfume of flowers in the small garden before his house. He fancied that nothing would be changed, that he would be able as heretofore to tyrannise good- humouredly over his half-caste wife, to notice with tender contempt his pale yellow child, to patronise his loftily dark-skinned brother-in-law, who loved pink neckties and wore patent-leather boots on his little feet, and was so humble before the white husband of the lucky sister. Those were the delights . of his life, and he was unable to conceive that the moral significance of any act of his could interfere with the very nature of things, could dim the light of the sun, could destroy the perfume of the flowers, the submission of his wife, the smile of his child, the awe- 3 4 An Outcast of the Islands. struck respect of Leonard da Souza and of all the Da the Souza family. That family's admiration was great luxury of his life. It rounded and completed his existence in a perpetual assurance of unquestion- to the coarse able superiority. He loved breathe incense they offered before the shrine of the success- the ful white man ; the man that had done them to their cousin the honour marry daughter, sister, ; sure to climb the confidential rising man very high ; clerk of Hudig & Co. They were a numerous and an unclean crowd, living in ruined bamboo houses, sur- rounded by neglected compounds, on the outskirts of Macassar. He kept them at arm's length and even illusions as to their further off, perhaps, having no a he worth. They were half-caste, lazy lot, and saw them as they were ragged, lean, unwashed, under- sized men of various ages, shuffling about aimlessly in motionless old looked like slippers ; women who monstrous bags of pink calico stuffed with shapeless lumps of fat, and deposited askew upon decaying rattan chairs in shady corners of dusty verandahs.; young women, slim and yellow,'big-eyed, long-haired, moving languidly amongst the dirt and rubbish of their dwellings as if every step they took was going to be their very last. He heard their shrill quarrel- lings, the squalling of their children, the grunting of their he smelt the odours of the of pigs ; heaps gar- bage in their courtyards : and he was greatly dis- But he fed and clothed that multitude gusted. shabby ; those degenerate descendants of Portuguese con- he was their he querors ; providence ; kept them singing his praises in the midst of their laziness, of their dirt, of their immense and hopeless squalor : and he was greatly delighted. They wanted much, but An Outcast of the Islands. 5 he could give them all they wanted without ruining himself. In exchange he had their silent fear, their It is a fine loquacious love, their noisy veneration. told so on thing to be a providence, and to be every day of one's life. It gives one a feeling of enormously in it. remote superiority, and Willems revelled He did not analyse the state of his mind, but probably his but intimate greatest delight lay in the unexpressed conviction that, should he close his hand, all those human would starve. admiringO beingsO HisjEQuni-r r-_ ficence had demoralised them. An easy task. Since he descended amongst them and married Joanna they had lost the little aptitude and strength for work they might have had to put forth under the stress of extreme lived now the of necessity.* They by' ^ grace -" Y-B-I nj jHiii TH:T- .tfiwT_i'W*r~ir his will. This was power. Willems loved it. In another, and perhaps a lower plane, his days did not want for their less complex but more obvious pleasures. He liked the simple games of skill billiards also not so and for ; games simple, calling quite another kind of skill poker. He had been the aptest pupil of a steady-eyed, sententious American, who had drifted mysteriously into Macassar from the wastes of the Pacific, and, after knocking about for a time in the eddies of town life, had drifted out enig- matically into the sunny solitudes of the Indian Ocean. The memory of the California!! stranger was perpetuated in the game of poker which became popular in the capital of Celebes from that time and in a powerful cocktail, the recipe for which is transmitted in the Kwang-tung dialect from head boy to head boy of the Chinese servants in the Sunda Hotel even to this day. Willems was a connoisseur in the drink and an adept at the game. 6 An Outcast of the Islands. Of those accomplishments he was moderately proud. Of the confidence reposed in him by Hudig the master he was boastfully and obtrusively proud. This arose from his great benevolence, and from an exalted sense of his duty to himself and the world at large. He experienced that irresistible impulse to impart information which is inseparable from gross ignorance. There is always some one thing which the ignorant man knows, and that thing is the only worth it fills the man's thing knowing ; ignorant universe. Willems knew all about himself. O"> the day when, with many misgivings, he ran away from a Dutch East-Indiaman in Samarang roads, he had com- menced that study of himself, of his own ways, of his own abilities, of those fate-compelling qualities of his which led him towards that lucrative position which he now filled.
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