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1  There was an agent buttoned up inside an ulster and sleeping on a chair on deck within three feet of me.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
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2  He was stand-offish with the other agents, and they on their side said he was the manager's spy upon them.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
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3  He was a first-class agent, young, gentlemanly, a bit reserved, with a forked little beard and a hooked nose.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
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4  Then he began again, assuring me Mr. Kurtz was the best agent he had, an exceptional man, of the greatest importance to the Company; therefore I could understand his anxiety.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
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5  All the carriers were speaking together, and in the midst of the uproar the lamentable voice of the chief agent was heard 'giving it up' tearfully for the twentieth time that day.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
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6  In the steady buzz of flies the homeward-bound agent was lying flushed and insensible; the other, bent over his books, was making correct entries of perfectly correct transactions; and fifty feet below the doorstep I could see the still tree-tops of the grove of death.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
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7  One of the agents with a picket of a few of our blacks, armed for the purpose, was keeping guard over the ivory; but deep within the forest, red gleams that wavered, that seemed to sink and rise from the ground amongst confused columnar shapes of intense blackness, showed the exact position of the camp where Mr. Kurtz's adorers were keeping their uneasy vigil.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
ContextHighlight   In III