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The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes

by Joseph Conrad

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  1. 01Front matter~1 min
  2. 02First Note~8 min
  3. 03CHAPTER I~25 min
  4. 04CHAPTER II — part 1~23 min
  5. 05CHAPTER II — part 2~25 min
  6. 06CHAPTER III — part 1~25 min
  7. 07CHAPTER III — part 2~8 min
  8. 08CHAPTER I~18 min
  9. 09CHAPTER II~16 min
  10. 10CHAPTER III~17 min
  11. 11CHAPTER IV — part 1~24 min
  12. 12CHAPTER IV — part 2~14 min
  13. 13CHAPTER I — part 1~25 min
  14. 14CHAPTER I — part 2~6 min
  15. 15CHAPTER II~20 min
  16. 16CHAPTER III~18 min
  17. 17CHAPTER IV~25 min
  18. 18CHAPTER I — part 1~24 min
  19. 19CHAPTER I — part 2~4 min
  20. 20CHAPTER II~17 min
  21. 21CHAPTER III — part 1~25 min
  22. 22CHAPTER III — part 2~6 min
  23. 23CHAPTER IV — part 1~25 min
  24. 24CHAPTER IV — part 2~16 min
  25. 25CHAPTER V — part 1~25 min
  26. 26CHAPTER V — part 2~4 min
  27. 27CHAPTER I — part 1~23 min
  28. 28CHAPTER I — part 2~3 min
  29. 29CHAPTER II~22 min
  30. 30CHAPTER III~18 min

A few words to begin

The pages which follow have been extracted from a pile of manuscript which was apparently meant for the eye of one woman only. She seems to have been the writer’s childhood’s friend. They had parted as children, or very little more than children. Years passed. Then something recalled to the woman the companion of her young days and she wrote to him: “I have been hearing of you lately. I know where life has brought you. You certainly selected your own road. But to us, left behind, it always looked as if you had struck out into a pathless desert. We always regarded you as a person that must be given up for lost. But you have turned up again; and though we may never see each other, my memory welcomes you and I confess to you I should like to know the incidents on the road which has led you to where you are now.” And he answers her: “I believe you are the only one now alive who remembers me as a child. I have heard of you from time to time, but I wonder what sort of person you are now. Perhaps if I did know I wouldn’t dare put pen to paper. But I don’t know. I only remember that we were great chums. In fact, I chummed with you even more than with your brothers. But I am like the pigeon that went away in the fable of the Two Pigeons. If I once start to tell you I would want you to feel that you have been there yourself. I may overtax your patience with the story of…

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