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Inheritors, by Joseph Conrad
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Title: The Inheritors
Author: Joseph Conrad Ford M. Hueffer
Release Date: February 3, 2005 [EBook #14888]
Language: English
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THE INHERITORS
An Extravagant Story
By
JOSEPH CONRAD & FORD M. HUEFFER
"Sardanapalus builded seven cities in a day. Let us eat, drink and sleep, for to-morrow we die."
MCCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.
New York
MCMI
London, William Heinemann. 1901, by MCCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.
The Trow Printing Company New York
To BORYS & CHRISTINA
CHAPTER ONE
"Ideas," she said. "Oh, as for ideas--"
"Well?" I hazarded, "as for ideas--?"
We went through the old gateway and I cast a glance over my shoulder. The noon sun was shining over the masonry, over the little saints' effigies, over the little fretted canopies, the grime and the white streaks of bird-dropping.
"There," I said, pointing toward it, "doesn't that suggest something to you?"
She made a motion with