Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 26, 2025
There from his skiff he saw Nina's long canoe drift past, the girl sitting in the stern bending over Dain, who was stretched in the bottom with his head resting on the girl's knees. He saw it. He followed them, but in a short time they took to the paddles and got away from under his observant eye.
"Nobody know," returned the Burman. "Three diggers going up to the hills to look for rubies. Make camp on little creek not a mile from here. Somebody pass the camp next day and see one man dead. Then they look, and see pieces of the other men in the jungle. Me forgot that, running from Kachins." "Never mind, Me Dain," said Jim Dent. "Don't worry about that.
He was about to fill himself another cup when a shadow fell at his feet, the shadow of Olivier le Dain standing before him with his air of emphasized respect, which was beginning to pall upon the transfigured poet. "Your dignity will forgive me, but it is the king's wish you should pass judgment on certain prisoners." Villon stared at him. "I? And here?" "Such is the king's pleasure."
It was from David Dain, and stated that the difficulty as to the title of the house had been settled, that the mortgage would be sent in for Mrs. Stanway to sign that night, and that Stanway might safely draw against the money to-morrow. 'My God! he exclaimed, pushing his hat back from his brow. 'What a chance!
Of Dain Waris, his own people said with pride that he knew how to fight like a white man. This was true; he had that sort of courage the courage in the open, I may say but he had also a European mind. You meet them sometimes like that, and are surprised to discover unexpectedly a familiar turn of thought, an unobscured vision, a tenacity of purpose, a touch of altruism.
'I don't absolutely need anything, he retorted, controlling himself. 'But Dain made the offer 'Because if you do, she proceeded, 'I dare say Uncle Meshach 'Look here, my girl, he interrupted in turn, 'I've had exactly as much of Uncle Meshach as I can stand.
The last words of his reply were spoken by Almayer in a faltering voice. The thought that Dain was dead recurred to him vividly again, and he felt as if an invisible hand was gripping his throat. He reached for the gin bottle while they were uncorking the wine and swallowed a big gulp. The lieutenant, who was speaking to Nina, gave him a quick glance.
For three days the strong arms of Me Dain and the two Shan boatmen drove the river boat up the stream, and every day's journey brought them nearer to the mountains where the rubies were found, and among whose recesses they believed that Jack's father was a close prisoner in the hands of men who coveted rubies above all things.
Suddenly, in a vivid white flash, the low point of land with the bending trees on it and Almayer's house, leaped into view, flickered and disappeared. Dain pushed Babalatchi aside and ran down to the water-gate followed by his shivering boatmen. Babalatchi backed slowly in and closed the door, then turned round and looked silently upon Lakamba.
The squall had now passed, and, in the short stillness of the lull in the storm, Lakamba repeated softly, as if to himself, "Much easier. Much better." Dain did not seem greatly discomposed by the Rajah's threatening words.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking