...admit, but I have a voice too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced. Of course, a fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments,...sentiments, you say? Fine sentiments, be hanged ! I had no tune. I had to mess about with whitelead and strips of woollen blanket helping to put bandages on those...

...admit, but I have a voice too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced. Of course, a fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments,...I had to mess about with white-lead and strips of woolen blanket helping to put bandages on those leaky steam-pipes — I tell you. . I had to watch...

...admit, but I have a voice too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced. Of course, a. fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments,...I had to mess about with white-lead and strips of woolen blanket helping to put bandages on those leaky steam-pipes — I tell you. I had to watch the...

...admit, but I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced. Of course, a fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments, is always safe. Who's TEat gTUnfing? ^ou wonder! didn't go ashore for a howl and a dance? Well, no — I didn't. Fine sentiments,...

...Very well. I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced. Of course a fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments,...be hanged! I had no time. I had to mess about with white lead and strips of woollen blanket helping to put bandages on those leaky steampipes— I tell...

...later, when he is challenged by one of his auditors with having uttered "fine sentiments," he replies, "Fine sentiments, be hanged! I had no time. I had to mess about with white lead and strips of woolen blanket ... on those leaky steam pipes." The action presumably will...

...as Marlow does, that there is "an appeal to me in this fiendish row"; as for others, he continues, "a fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments, is always safe." Marlow is implicitly dividing civilised man into three categories: those who respond to savagery and...

...admit, but I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced. Of course, a fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments,...I had to mess about with white-lead and strips of woolen blanket helping to put bandages on those leaky steampipes — I tell you. I had to watch the...

...avoids the temptation of atavism, not by invoking "fine sentiments," but by applying himself to work. Fine sentiments, be hanged! I had no time. I had to mess about with white-lead and strips of woolen blanket helping to put bandages on those leaky steampipes - I tell you. I had to watch the steering,...

...narrative. The most obvious instance is when he enters into a dialogue with their expected objections: ' "You wonder I didn't go ashore for a howl and a dance?...you say? Fine sentiments, be hanged! I had no time" ' (p. 69). It is perhaps worth noting the double set of quotation-marks here. In later passages cited...