id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt conrad-secret-709 Joseph Conrad The Secret Sharer .epub application/epub+zip 16954 1310 91 I got a sleeping suit out of my room and, coming back on deck, saw the naked man from the sea sitting on the main hatch, glimmering white in the darkness, his elbows on his knees and his head in his hands. He was not a bit like me, really; yet, as we stood leaning over my bed place, whispering side by side, with our dark heads together and our backs to the door, anybody bold enough to open it stealthily would have been treated to the uncanny sight of a double captain busy talking in whispers with his other self. I kept my eyes on him, and so when the voice outside the door announced, "There's a ship's boat coming our way, sir," I saw him give a start -the first movement he had made for hours. ./cache/conrad-secret-709.epub ./txt/conrad-secret-709.txt