Hudig

“And Captain Lingard has lots of money,” would say Mr. Vinck solemnly, with his head on one side, “lots of money; more than Hudig!”

Almayer's Folly 2006

The string worked a punkah on the other side of the green door, where the so-called private office was, and where old Hudig — the

Almayer's Folly 2006

Vinck, or greeting Hudig, the Master, with a boisterous

Almayer's Folly 2006

That was the fact placing old Lingard so much above the common crowd of sea-going adventurers who traded with Hudig in the daytime and drank champagne, gambled, sang noisy songs, and made love to half-caste girls under the broad verandah of the Sunda Hotel at night.

Almayer's Folly 2006

To her the ex-clerk of old Hudig appeared as remote, as brilliant, as terrible, as necessary, as the sun that gives life to these lands: the sun of unclouded skies that dazzles and withers; the sun beneficent and wicked -- the giver of light, perfume, and pestilence.

An Outcast Of The Islands 1896

Everybody who traded in the islands, and who had any dealings with Hudig, knew Willems.

An Outcast Of The Islands 1896

Of the confidence reposed in him by Hudig -- the master -- he was boastfully and obtrusively proud.

An Outcast Of The Islands 1896

Hudig had found an easy way to provide for the begging crowd.

An Outcast Of The Islands 1896

While Lingard spoke Willems looked up quickly, but soon his head fell on his breast in the discouraging certitude that the knowledge he and Hudig had wished for so much had come to him too late.

An Outcast Of The Islands 1896

He had forgotten Aïssa, his wife, Lingard, Hudig -- everybody, in the rapid vision of his hopeful future.

An Outcast Of The Islands 1896