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’TWIXT LAND & SEA
TALES

BY
JOSEPH CONRAD

A SMILE OF FORTUNE

THE SECRET SHARER

FREYA OF THE SEVEN
ISLES

Life is a tragic folly
Let us laugh and be jolly
Away with melancholy
Bring me a branch of holly
Life is a tragic folly

A. Symons.

LONDON: J. M. DENT & SONS LTD.
ALDINE HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN · 1920

First Edition October 1912
Reprinted November 1912; January 1913; November 1918; December 1920

All rights reserved

To
CAPTAIN C. M. MARRIS
LATE MASTER AND OWNER
OF THE
ARABY MAID: ARCHIPELAGO TRADER
IN MEMORY OF THOSE
OLD DAYS OF ADVENTURE