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Charles Dickens
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'Twixt Land & Sea: Tales
by Joseph Conrad
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- 01Front matter~5 min
- 02CHAPTER I~19 min
- 03CHAPTER II~19 min
- 04CHAPTER III~16 min
- 05CHAPTER IV — part 1~25 min
- 06CHAPTER IV — part 2~8 min
- 07CHAPTER V — part 1~25 min
- 08CHAPTER V — part 2~13 min
- 09CHAPTER VI — part 1~25 min
- 10CHAPTER VI — part 2~10 min
- 11CHAPTER I — part 1~25 min
- 12CHAPTER I — part 2~25 min
- 13CHAPTER I — part 3~1 min
- 14CHAPTER II — part 1~25 min
- 15CHAPTER II — part 2~25 min
- 16CHAPTER II — part 3~25 min
- 17CHAPTER II — part 4~3 min
- 18CHAPTER II~13 min
- 19CHAPTER III — part 1~24 min
- 20CHAPTER III — part 2~4 min
- 21CHAPTER IV — part 1~25 min
- 22CHAPTER IV — part 2~25 min
- 23CHAPTER IV — part 3~5 min
- 24CHAPTER V — part 1~25 min
- 25CHAPTER V — part 2~3 min
- 26CHAPTER VI — part 1~25 min
- 27CHAPTER VI — part 2~10 min
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By half-past seven in the morning, the ship being then inside the harbour at last and moored within a long stone’s-throw from the quay, my stock of philosophy was nearly exhausted. I was dressing hurriedly in my cabin when the steward came tripping in with a morning suit over his arm. Hungry, tired, and depressed, with my head engaged inside a white shirt irritatingly stuck together by too much starch, I desired him peevishly to “heave round with that breakfast.” I wanted to get ashore as soon as possible.
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