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Lord Jim
He
was
an
inch
,
perhaps
two
,
under
six
feet
,
powerfully
built
,
and
he
advanced
straight
at
you
with
a
slight
stoop
of
the
shoulders
,
head
forward
,
and
a
fixed
from-under
stare
which
made
you
think
of
a
charging
bull
.
His
voice
was
deep
,
loud
,
and
his
manner
displayed
a
kind
of
dogged
self-assertion
which
had
nothing
aggressive
in
it
.
It
seemed
a
necessity
,
and
it
was
directed
apparently
as
much
at
himself
as
at
anybody
else
.
He
was
spotlessly
neat
,
apparelled
in
immaculate
white
from
shoes
to
hat
,
and
in
the
various
Eastern
ports
where
he
got
his
living
as
ship-chandler
's
water-clerk
he
was
very
popular
.
A
water-clerk
need
not
pass
an
examination
in
anything
under
the
sun
,
but
he
must
have
Ability
in
the
abstract
and
demonstrate
it
practically
.
His
work
consists
in
racing
under
sail
,
steam
,
or
oars
against
other
water-clerks
for
any
ship
about
to
anchor
,
greeting
her
captain
cheerily
,
forcing
upon
him
a
card
--
the
business
card
of
the
ship-chandler
--
and
on
his
first
visit
on
shore
piloting
him
firmly
but
without
ostentation
to
a
vast
,
cavern-like
shop
which
is
full
of
things
that
are
eaten
and
drunk
on
board
ship
;
where
you
can
get
everything
to
make
her
seaworthy
and
beautiful
,
from
a
set
of
chain-hooks
for
her
cable
to
a
book
of
gold-leaf
for
the
carvings
of
her
stern
;
and
where
her
commander
is
received
like
a
brother
by
a
ship-chandler
he
has
never
seen
before
.
There
is
a
cool
parlour
,
easy-chairs
,
bottles
,
cigars
,
writing
implements
,
a
copy
of
harbour
regulations
,
and
a
warmth
of
welcome
that
melts
the
salt
of
a
three
months
'
passage
out
of
a
seaman
's
heart
.
The
connection
thus
begun
is
kept
up
,
as
long
as
the
ship
remains
in
harbour
,
by
the
daily
visits
of
the
water-clerk
.
To
the
captain
he
is
faithful
like
a
friend
and
attentive
like
a
son
,
with
the
patience
of
Job
,
the
unselfish
devotion
of
a
woman
,
and
the
jollity
of
a
boon
companion
.
Later
on
the
bill
is
sent
in
.
It
is
a
beautiful
and
humane
occupation
.
Therefore
good
water-clerks
are
scarce
.
When
a
water-clerk
who
possesses
Ability
in
the
abstract
has
also
the
advantage
of
having
been
brought
up
to
the
sea
,
he
is
worth
to
his
employer
a
lot
of
money
and
some
humouring
.
Jim
had
always
good
wages
and
as
much
humouring
as
would
have
bought
the
fidelity
of
a
fiend
.
Nevertheless
,
with
black
ingratitude
he
would
throw
up
the
job
suddenly
and
depart
.
To
his
employers
the
reasons
he
gave
were
obviously
inadequate
.
They
said
'
Confounded
fool
!
'
as
soon
as
his
back
was
turned
.
This
was
their
criticism
on
his
exquisite
sensibility
.
To
the
white
men
in
the
waterside
business
and
to
the
captains
of
ships
he
was
just
Jim
--
nothing
more
.
He
had
,
of
course
,
another
name
,
but
he
was
anxious
that
it
should
not
be
pronounced
.
His
incognito
,
which
had
as
many
holes
as
a
sieve
,
was
not
meant
to
hide
a
personality
but
a
fact
.
When
the
fact
broke
through
the
incognito
he
would
leave
suddenly
the
seaport
where
he
happened
to
be
at
the
time
and
go
to
another
--
generally
farther
east
.
He
kept
to
seaports
because
he
was
a
seaman
in
exile
from
the
sea
,
and
had
Ability
in
the
abstract
,
which
is
good
for
no
other
work
but
that
of
a
water-clerk
.
He
retreated
in
good
order
towards
the
rising
sun
,
and
the
fact
followed
him
casually
but
inevitably
.
Thus
in
the
course
of
years
he
was
known
successively
in
Bombay
,
in
Calcutta
,
in
Rangoon
,
in
Penang
,
in
Batavia
--
and
in
each
of
these
halting-places
was
just
Jim
the
water-clerk
.
Afterwards
,
when
his
keen
perception
of
the
Intolerable
drove
him
away
for
good
from
seaports
and
white
men
,
even
into
the
virgin
forest
,
the
Malays
of
the
jungle
village
,
where
he
had
elected
to
conceal
his
deplorable
faculty
,
added
a
word
to
the
monosyllable
of
his
incognito
.
They
called
him
Tuan
Jim
:
as
one
might
say
--
Lord
Jim
.
Originally
he
came
from
a
parsonage
.
Many
commanders
of
fine
merchant-ships
come
from
these
abodes
of
piety
and
peace
.
Jim
's
father
possessed
such
certain
knowledge
of
the
Unknowable
as
made
for
the
righteousness
of
people
in
cottages
without
disturbing
the
ease
of
mind
of
those
whom
an
unerring
Providence
enables
to
live
in
mansions
.
The
little
church
on
a
hill
had
the
mossy
greyness
of
a
rock
seen
through
a
ragged
screen
of
leaves
.
It
had
stood
there
for
centuries
,
but
the
trees
around
probably
remembered
the
laying
of
the
first
stone
.
Below
,
the
red
front
of
the
rectory
gleamed
with
a
warm
tint
in
the
midst
of
grass-plots
,
flower-beds
,
and
fir-trees
,
with
an
orchard
at
the
back
,
a
paved
stable-yard
to
the
left
,
and
the
sloping
glass
of
greenhouses
tacked
along
a
wall
of
bricks
.
The
living
had
belonged
to
the
family
for
generations
;
but
Jim
was
one
of
five
sons
,
and
when
after
a
course
of
light
holiday
literature
his
vocation
for
the
sea
had
declared
itself
,
he
was
sent
at
once
to
a
'
training-ship
for
officers
of
the
mercantile
marine
.
'
He
learned
there
a
little
trigonometry
and
how
to
cross
top-gallant
yards
.
He
was
generally
liked
.
He
had
the
third
place
in
navigation
and
pulled
stroke
in
the
first
cutter
.
Having
a
steady
head
with
an
excellent
physique
,
he
was
very
smart
aloft
.
His
station
was
in
the
fore-top
,
and
often
from
there
he
looked
down
,
with
the
contempt
of
a
man
destined
to
shine
in
the
midst
of
dangers
,
at
the
peaceful
multitude
of
roofs
cut
in
two
by
the
brown
tide
of
the
stream
,
while
scattered
on
the
outskirts
of
the
surrounding
plain
the
factory
chimneys
rose
perpendicular
against
a
grimy
sky
,
each
slender
like
a
pencil
,
and
belching
out
smoke
like
a
volcano
.
He
could
see
the
big
ships
departing
,
the
broad-beamed
ferries
constantly
on
the
move
,
the
little
boats
floating
far
below
his
feet
,
with
the
hazy
splendour
of
the
sea
in
the
distance
,
and
the
hope
of
a
stirring
life
in
the
world
of
adventure
.
On
the
lower
deck
in
the
babel
of
two
hundred
voices
he
would
forget
himself
,
and
beforehand
live
in
his
mind
the
sea-life
of
light
literature
.
He
saw
himself
saving
people
from
sinking
ships
,
cutting
away
masts
in
a
hurricane
,
swimming
through
a
surf
with
a
line
;
or
as
a
lonely
castaway
,
barefooted
and
half
naked
,
walking
on
uncovered
reefs
in
search
of
shellfish
to
stave
off
starvation
.
He
confronted
savages
on
tropical
shores
,
quelled
mutinies
on
the
high
seas
,
and
in
a
small
boat
upon
the
ocean
kept
up
the
hearts
of
despairing
men
--
always
an
example
of
devotion
to
duty
,
and
as
unflinching
as
a
hero
in
a
book
.
