`Twixt Land and Sea by Joseph Conrad, Fiction, Classics, Short Stories

& 34;One day -- and that day was many years ago now -- I received a long, chatty letter from one of my old chums and fellow-wanderers in Eastern waters. He was still out there, but settled down, and middle-aged; I imagined him -- grown portly in figure and domestic in his habits; in short, overtaken by the fate common to all except to those who, being specially beloved by the gods, get knocked on the head early. The letter was of the reminiscent& 34;do you remember& 34; kind -- a wistful letter of backward glances. And, amongst other things,& 34;surely you remember old Nelson,& 34; he wrote.& 34;Remember old Nelson! Certainly. And to begin with, his name was not Nelson. . . .& 34;