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Chance
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Title: Chance
Author: Joseph Conrad
Release Date: March 17, 2005 [eBook #1476]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
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Transcribed form the 1914 Methuen & Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
CHANCE--A TALE IN TWO PARTS
Those that hold that all things are governed by Fortune had not erred, had they not persisted there
SIR THOMAS BROWNE
TO SIR HUGH CLIFFORD, K.C.M.G. WHO STEADFAST FRIENDSHIP IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF THESE PAGES
PART I--THE DAMSEL
CHAPTER ONE
--YOUNG POWELL AND HIS CHANCE
I believe he had seen us out of the window coming off to dine in the dinghy of a fourteen-ton yaw