| Description | The text 'A smile of fortune' refers to the story Conrad wrote in 1910, in which the island of Mauritius plays a role. The story contains autobiographical elements. The narrator, a young captain, flirts ambiguously and surreptitiously with Alice Jacobus, daughter of a local merchant living in a house surrounded by a magnificent rose garden. Research has confirmed that in Port Louis at the time there was a 17-year-old Alice Shaw, whose father, a shipping agent, owned the only rose garden in town.
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