1 The same people who sent him specially also recommended you.
2 The other day I took up a man who hanged himself on the road.
3 And between whiles I had to look after the savage who was fireman.
4 Perhaps he was just simply a fine fellow who stuck to his work for its own sake.
5 I have a little theory which you Messieurs who go out there must help me to prove.
6 I knew once a Scotch sailmaker who was certain, dead sure, there were people in Mars.
7 This was simple prudence, white men being so much alike at a distance that he could not tell who I might be.
8 I know the wife of a very high personage in the Administration, and also a man who has lots of influence with, &c.
9 My dear sir,' said the fellow, 'I don't want to be misunderstood, and especially by you, who will see Mr. Kurtz long before I can have that pleasure.
10 The others had an alert, naturally interested expression; but their faces were essentially quiet, even those of the one or two who grinned as they hauled at the chain.
11 In about forty-five seconds I found myself again in the waiting-room with the compassionate secretary, who, full of desolation and sympathy, made me sign some document.
12 I wouldn't have mentioned the fellow to you at all, only it was from his lips that I first heard the name of the man who is so indissolubly connected with the memories of that time.
13 One of them, a stout, excitable chap with black mustaches, informed me with great volubility and many digressions, as soon as I told him who I was, that my steamer was at the bottom of the river.
14 And indeed nothing is easier for a man who has, as the phrase goes, "followed the sea" with reverence and affection, than to evoke the great spirit of the past upon the lower reaches of the Thames.
15 The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
16 It was very curious to see the contrast of expressions of the white men and of the black fellows of our crew, who were as much strangers to that part of the river as we, though their homes were only eight hundred miles away.
17 There were either no villages, or the people were hostile, or the director, who like the rest of us fed out of tins, with an occasional old he-goat thrown in, didn't want to stop the steamer for some more or less recondite reason.
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