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Cornelius is the stepfather of Jewel and Jim’s predecessor in working with Stein at Patusan. Cornelius is cruel, ugly, and manipulative—although he paints himself as a victim, it’s heavily implied that he was cheating Stein during their business relationship and also mistreating his wife. Although Marlow judges Cornelius as a man of no consequence, Cornelius ultimately plays a role in Jim’s death (by aiding Gentleman Brown in killing Dain Waris).
Cornelius Quotes in Lord Jim
The Lord Jim quotes below are all either spoken by Cornelius or refer to Cornelius. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 28
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‘Next day, talking casually with the people of the little native court of the place, I discovered that a story was travelling slowly down the coast about a mysterious white man in Patusan who had got hold of an extraordinary gem—namely, an emerald of an enormous size, and altogether priceless.’
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Chapter 29
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‘This was the theory of Jim’s marital evening walks. I made a third on more than one occasion, unpleasantly aware every time of Cornelius, who nursed the aggrieved sense of his legal paternity, slinking in the neighbourhood with that peculiar twist of his mouth as if he were perpetually on the point of gnashing his teeth.’
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Cornelius Quotes in Lord Jim
The Lord Jim quotes below are all either spoken by Cornelius or refer to Cornelius. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 28
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‘Next day, talking casually with the people of the little native court of the place, I discovered that a story was travelling slowly down the coast about a mysterious white man in Patusan who had got hold of an extraordinary gem—namely, an emerald of an enormous size, and altogether priceless.’
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Chapter 29
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‘This was the theory of Jim’s marital evening walks. I made a third on more than one occasion, unpleasantly aware every time of Cornelius, who nursed the aggrieved sense of his legal paternity, slinking in the neighbourhood with that peculiar twist of his mouth as if he were perpetually on the point of gnashing his teeth.’
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