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Two engineers escape the Patna along with the skipper and Jim, but perhaps the most significant engineer is George, the third engineer who dies while attempting to escape the ship. George’s fate is ironic—he is older and dies because his weak heart got too much excitement during the escape attempt, suggesting that if he had just done his duty and remained calm, he might have survived the ordeal. Jim trips over George’s corpse to escape the Patna, and so George represents the dangers of cowardice and the grim future that awaits men like Jim who run away from their problems.
George Quotes in Lord Jim
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Chapter 9
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‘The last moment had come, as he thought, and he did not move. His feet remained glued to the planks if his thoughts were knocking about loose in his head. It was at this moment too that he saw one of the men around the boat step backwards suddenly, clutch at the air with raised arms, totter and collapse. He didn’t exactly fall, he only slid gently into a sitting posture, all hunched up, and with his shoulders propped against the side of the engine-room skylight. “That was the donkey-man. A haggard, white-faced chap with a ragged moustache. Acted third engineer,” he explained.
‘“Dead,” I said. We had heard something of that in court.’
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Chapter 13
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‘“Pray—tell me,” he began, coming up ponderously, “what was there at the bottom of this affair—precisely (au juste)? It is curious. That dead man, for instance—and so on.”’
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George Quotes in Lord Jim
The Lord Jim quotes below are all either spoken by George or refer to George. 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:
).
Chapter 9
Quotes
‘The last moment had come, as he thought, and he did not move. His feet remained glued to the planks if his thoughts were knocking about loose in his head. It was at this moment too that he saw one of the men around the boat step backwards suddenly, clutch at the air with raised arms, totter and collapse. He didn’t exactly fall, he only slid gently into a sitting posture, all hunched up, and with his shoulders propped against the side of the engine-room skylight. “That was the donkey-man. A haggard, white-faced chap with a ragged moustache. Acted third engineer,” he explained.
‘“Dead,” I said. We had heard something of that in court.’
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Chapter 13
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‘“Pray—tell me,” he began, coming up ponderously, “what was there at the bottom of this affair—precisely (au juste)? It is curious. That dead man, for instance—and so on.”’
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