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     He was silent for a long time.
     "'Mistah Kurtz—he dead.'
     "'I had immense plans,' he muttered irresolutely. 'Yes,' said I; 'but if        +
     you try to
     "'Do you understand this?' I asked.
     His remark did not seem at all surprising. It was just like Marlow.             +
     It was
     darkness was here yesterday. Imagine the feelings of a commander of      +
     a fine—what d'ye call
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     Title: Heart of Darkness
     Author: Joseph Conrad
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     Language: English
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     By Joseph Conrad
     He paused.
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     The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of           +
     the sails
     dark above Gravesend, and farther back still seemed                      +
     condensed into a mournful gloom, brooding motionless
     The Director of Companies was our captain and our host. We four                 +
     affectionately watched his
     Between us there was, as I have already said somewhere, the bond of             +
     the sea
     And at last, in its curved and imperceptible fall, the sun sank low, and        +
     from
     dark "interlopers" of the Eastern trade, and the commissioned "generals" +
     of East India fleets. Hunters
     The sun set; the dusk fell on the stream, and lights began to appear            +
     along
     this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places       +
     of the earth."
     He was the only man of us who still "followed the sea." The worst that
     darkness. The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking       +
     it away from those
     He broke off. Flames glided in the river, small green flames, red               +
     flames, white flames
     "I don't want to bother you much with what happened to me personally,"          +
     he
     "I had then, as you remember, just returned to London after a lot of            +
     Indian
     "Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps. I would
     darkness. But there was in it                                            +
     one river especially, a mighty big river, that you could
     "You understand it was a Continental concern, that Trading society; but         +
     I have a lot
     "I am sorry to own I began to worry them. This was already a fresh
     "I got my appointment—of course; and I got it very quick. It appears            +
     the
     "I flew around like mad to get ready, and before forty-eight hours I            +
     was
     "It was upward of thirty days before I saw the mouth of the big river
     "This devoted band called itself the Eldorado Exploring Expedition, and         +
     I believe they were sworn
     "A narrow and deserted street in deep shadow, high houses, innumerable          +
     windows with venetian blinds
     "She turned away slowly, walked on, following the bank, and passed into         +
     the bushes to
     "In about forty-five seconds I found myself again in the waiting-room           +
     with the
     Darkness, knitting black wool as for                                     +
     a warm pall, one introducing, introducing continuously to the unknown
     "There was yet a visit to the doctor. 'A simple formality,' assured me          +
     the secretary
     "The old doctor felt my pulse, evidently thinking of something else             +
     the while. 'Good, good
     "One thing more remained to do—say good-by to my excellent aunt. I              +
     found
     "'You forget, dear Charlie, that the laborer is worthy of his hire,' she        +
     said, brightly
     "After this I got embraced, told to wear flannel, be sure to write              +
     often, and
     dark-green as to be almost black, fringed with white surf, ran straight, +
     like a ruled
     "Instead of going up, I turned and descended to the left. My idea was to
     "We gave her her letters (I heard the men in that lonely ship were dying
     "I had my passage on a little sea-going steamer. Her captain was a              +
     Swede
     "At last we opened a reach. A rocky cliff appeared, mounds of turned-up         +
     earth
     dark things                                                              +
     seemed to stir feebly. I blinked, the path was steep. A horn tooted
     "A slight clinking behind me made me turn my head. Six black men                +
     advanced in
     "I avoided a vast artificial hole somebody had been digging on the              +
     slope, the purpose
     "Black shapes crouched, lay, sat between the trees, leaning against the         +
     trunks, clinging to the
     "I did not see the real significance of that wreck at once. I fancy I
     darkness he had in his keeping.                                          +
     You fancied you had seen things—but the seal
     "In exterior he resembled a butcher in a poor neighborhood, and his eyes        +
     had a
     "They were dying slowly—it was very clear. They were not enemies, they          +
     were not
     "Near the same tree two more bundles of acute angles sat with their legs        +
     drawn
     ". . . No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the                     +
     life-sensation of any given
     "I didn't want any more loitering in the shade, and I made haste towards
     "I shook hands with this miracle, and I learned he was the Company's            +
     chief
     wire set into the depths of darkness, and in return came a               +
     precious trickle of ivory.
     "I had to wait in the station for ten days—an eternity. I lived in
     "One day he remarked, without lifting his head, 'In the interior you            +
     will no doubt
     "Suddenly there was a growing murmur of voices and a great tramping of          +
     feet. A
     "He turned to his work. The noise outside had ceased, and presently             +
     in going out
     "Next day I left that station at last, with a caravan of sixty men, for
     "No use telling you much about that. Paths, paths, everywhere; a                +
     stamped-in network of
     "'Forgive me. I—I—have mourned so long in silence—in silence. . . .             +
     You were with
     "'To the very end,' I said, shakily. 'I heard his very last words. . . .'
     "He began to speak as soon as he saw me. I had been very long
     invincible, like                                                                +
     evil or truth, waiting patiently for the passing away of this fantastic  +
     invasion.
     "Oh, these months! Well, never mind. Various things happened. One               +
     evening a grass shed full
     dark I found myself at the back of two men,                              +
     talking. I heard the name
     "I had no idea why he wanted to be sociable, but as we chatted in
     He paused again as if reflecting, then added—"Of course in this you             +
     fellows see
     "It arrested me, and he stood by civilly, holding a half-pint champagne         +
     bottle (medical
     "'The chief of the Inner Station,' he answered in a short tone, looking         +
     away. 'Much
      comes here, a special being, as you ought                                      +
     to know.' 'Why ought I to know
     "But they didn't. Instead of rivets there came an invasion, an                  +
     infliction, a visitation
     "I had given up worrying myself about the rivets. One's capacity for            +
     that kind
     "He blew the candle out suddenly, and we went outside. The moon had             +
     risen. Black
     "I let him run on, this
      Mephistopheles, and it seemed to                                               +
     me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger
     He was silent for a while.
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     dark that we listeners could hardly see one                              +
     another. For a long time already he, sitting
     ". . . Yes—I let him run on," Marlow began again, "and think what               +
     he pleased about
     "He was becoming confidential now, but I fancy my unresponsive attitude         +
     must have exasperated him
     "I was not surprised to see somebody sitting aft, on the deck, with             +
     his legs
     dark figure obscured the lighted doorway of the manager's hut,           +
     vanished, then, a second
     dark. I went no more near the remarkable man                             +
     who had pronounced a judgment upon
     darkly. I observed with assumed innocence that no man was safe           +
     from trouble in this
     "One evening as I was lying flat on the deck of my steamboat, I heard
      unpleasant,' grunted                                                           +
     the uncle. 'He has asked the Administration to be sent there,' said the
     "I was broad awake by this time, but, lying perfectly at ease, remained         +
     still, having
     evil, to the profound darkness of its heart. It was so startling  +
     that I leaped
     "They swore aloud together—out of sheer fright, I believe—then                  +
     pretending not to know
     "In a few days the Eldorado Expedition went into the patient wilderness,        +
     that closed upon
     "Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings         +
     of the world
     "Try to be civil, Marlow," growled a voice, and I knew there was at             +
     least
     darkness. It was very quiet there. At night sometimes the roll of        +
     drums behind the curtain
     evil mine is the speech that                                             +
     cannot be silenced. Of course, a fool, what with
     dark corner,                                                             +
     and by the door I picked up a book. It had lost its covers
     "I had been dimly aware for some time of a worrying noise, and when I
     "The current was more rapid now, the steamer seemed at her last gasp,           +
     the stern
     dark. This was sensible enough. Eight                                    +
     miles meant nearly three hours' steaming for us, and I could
     dark-blue fringed cloths, with fierce nostrils                           +
     and his hair all done up artfully in oily
      worked. There were either no villages, or the people were                      +
     hostile, or the director, who
     "Some of the pilgrims behind the stretcher carried his arms—two                 +
     shot-guns, a heavy
     "Two pilgrims were quarreling in hurried whispers as to which bank.             +
     'Left.' 'No, no; how
     "I did not think they would attack, for several obvious reasons. The            +
     thick fog was
     "You should have seen the pilgrims stare! They had no heart to grin, or         +
     even
     "It developed itself, I should say, two hours after the fog lifted, and         +
     its commencement
     "No sooner had we fairly entered it than I became aware it was much             +
     narrower
     "One of my hungry and forbearing friends was sounding in the bows just          +
     below me
     "I was looking down at the sounding-pole, and feeling much annoyed to           +
     see at
     dark-red under the                                                       +
     wheel; his eyes shone with an amazing luster. The fusillade burst
     "We two whites stood over him, and his lustrous and inquiring glance            +
     enveloped us both
     "And then they very nearly buried me.
     darkness. He had summed up—he had judged. 'The horror!' He               +
     was a remarkable man. After
     pulsating stream of light, or the deceitful flow from the heart of an           +
     impenetrable darkness.
     "The other shoe went flying unto the devil-god of that river. I thought,        +
     'By
     There was a pause of profound stillness, then a match flared, and               +
     Marlow's lean
     "Absurd!" he cried. "This is the worst of trying to tell. . . . Here            +
     you all are
     darkness claimed him for their own. That                                 +
     was the reflection that made you creepy all over
     "Poor fool! If he had only left that shutter alone. He had no restraint,        +
     no
     "This I did directly the simple funeral was over. We were going                 +
     half-speed, keeping
     dark at all events,                                                      +
     when I saw in the distance a clearing on the river
     "He rustled one of the letters, and looking straight in my face said,           +
     'I am
     "The manager appeared silently in the doorway; I stepped out at once            +
     and he drew
     darkly menacing at last,                                                 +
     and with much heat argued that the Company had the right
                                                                                     +
                                                                                     +
     I stopped in a fright.
                                                                                     +

     "'Repeat them,' she said in a heart-broken tone. 'I want—I                      +
     want—something—something
     "Through my glasses I saw the slope of a hill interspersed with rare            +
     trees and
     "His aspect reminded me of something I had seen—something funny I had           +
     seen somewhere
     "When the manager, escorted by the pilgrims, all of them armed to the           +
     teeth, had
     "The pipe soothed him, and gradually I made out he had run away from            +
     school
     "I gave him Towson's book. He made as though he would kiss me, but
     Dark human shapes could be made out in the distance, flitting            +
     indistinctly against the gloomy
     "'True,' I said; 'his example too. Yes, his example. I forgot that.'
     "'But I do not. I cannot—I cannot believe—not yet. I cannot believe             +
     that
     stream, the stream of darkness.                                          +
     She said suddenly very low, 'He died as he lived.'
     "I looked at him, lost in astonishment. There he was before me, in              +
     motley, as
     "They had come together unavoidably, like two ships becalmed near               +
     each other, and lay rubbing
     dark, so                                                                 +
     impenetrable to human thought, so pitiless to human weakness. 'And, ever        +
     since, you have
     "On the contrary. It appears their intercourse had been very much broken        +
     by various causes
     "She came abreast of the steamer, stood still, and faced us. Her long           +
     shadow fell
     "I am not disclosing any trade secrets. In fact the manager said                +
     afterwards that Mr
     "The admirer of Mr. Kurtz was a bit crestfallen. In a hurried,                  +
     indistinct voice he
     "His voice lost itself in the calm of the evening. The long shadows of          +
     the
     dark-faced and pensive forest. The bushes shook, the                     +
     grass swayed for a time, and then
     darkly far in its bony head that nodded with                             +
     grotesque jerks. Kurtz—Kurtz—that means
     "'His end,' said I, with dull anger stirring in me, 'was in every way           +
     worthy
     "'And I was not with him,' she murmured. My anger subsided before a             +
     feeling of
     "'Everything that could be done—' I mumbled.
     "'Ah, but I believed in him more than anyone on earth—more than his             +
     own
     "She walked with measured steps, draped in striped and fringed cloths,          +
     treading the earth proudly
     "'If she had offered to come aboard I really think I would have tried to
     "At this moment I heard Kurtz's deep voice behind the curtain, 'Save            +
     me!—save
      Why, I've had                                                                  +
     to save you. You are interrupting my plans now. Sick! Sick
     "The manager came out. He did me the honor to take me under the arm
     ,' and turned his back on me. My hour of favor was                              +
     over; I found myself
     darkness of an                                                           +
     impenetrable night. . . . The Russian tapped me on the shoulder. I heard        +
     him mumbling
     "He stated with a good deal of formality that had we not been 'of the
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     "I blew the candle out and left the cabin. The pilgrims were dining in          +
     the
     "I felt like a chill grip on my chest. 'Don't,' I said, in a
     dark                                                                     +
     blue) peeped 'Towson's Inquiry,' &c., &c. He seemed to think himself
     darkness, real enough to                                                 +
     make me get up for the purpose of having a look
     "I think I would have raised an outcry if I had believed my eyes. But
     "There was an agent buttoned up inside an ulster and sleeping on a chair        +
     on
     "As soon as I got on the bank I saw a trail—a broad trail
     dark blue space, sparkling with dew and starlight, in which              +
     black things stood very still
     "I came upon him, and, if he had not heard me coming, I would have
     "When next day we left at noon, the crowd, of whose presence behind the         +
     curtain
     "We had carried Kurtz into the pilot-house: there was more air there.           +
     Lying on
     "He kept on looking out past me with fiery, longing eyes, with a mingled        +
     expression
     "I pulled the string of the whistle, and I did this because I saw the
     "And then that imbecile crowd down on the deck started their little fun,        +
     and I
     darkness, bearing us                                                     +
     down towards the sea with twice the speed of our upward progress
     darkness of his heart. Oh, he struggled! he struggled! The wastes        +
     of his weary brain
     "Sometimes he was contemptibly childish. He desired to have kings meet          +
     him at railway-stations
     "We broke down—as I had expected—and had to lie up for repairs at
     darkness. I looked at him as you peer down at                            +
     a man who is lying
     dark waiting for death.'                                                 +
     The light was within a foot of his eyes. I forced
     "Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have             +
     never seen before, and
     "'The horror! The horror!'
     "Thus I was left at last with a slim packet of letters and the girl
     darkness.                                                                +
     It was a moment of triumph for the wilderness, an invading and vengeful         +
     rush
     dark gleams                                                              +
     on the flat surfaces like a somber and polished sarcophagus. A high door
     dark eyes looked out at me. Their glance was                             +
     guileless, profound, confident, and trustful. She carried
     "'Intimacy grows quick out there,' I said. 'I knew him as well as it is
     "'And you admired him,' she said. 'It was impossible to know him and not        +
     to
     "'He was a remarkable man,' I said, unsteadily. Then before the                 +
     appealing fixity of her
     "'Love him,' she finished eagerly, silencing me into an appalled                +
     dumbness. 'How true! how true
     "'You knew him best,' I repeated. And perhaps she did. But with every           +
     word spoken
     "'You were his friend,' she went on. 'His friend,' she repeated, a              +
     little louder. 'You
     darkness deepened. I was not even sure whether he had                    +
     given me the right bundle
     beyond the                                                                      +
     threshold of an eternal darkness. 'But you have heard him! You know!'    +
     she cried.
     darkness, in                                                             +
     the triumphant darkness from which I could not have defended her—from    +
     which
     "'What a loss to me—to us!'—she corrected herself with beautiful                +
     generosity; then added
     "'I have been very happy—very fortunate—very proud,' she went on. 'Too          +
     fortunate. Too
     "She stood up; her fair hair seemed to catch all the remaining light in         +
     a
     "'And of all this,' she went on, mournfully, 'of all his promise, and           +
     of all
     "'We shall always remember him,' I said, hastily.
     "'No!' she cried. 'It is impossible that all this should be lost—that           +
     such a
     "'His words will remain,' I said.
     "'And his example,' she whispered to herself. 'Men looked up to                 +
     him,—his goodness shone
     "I was on the point of crying at her, 'Don't you hear them?' The
     "'His last word—to live with,' she murmured. 'Don't you understand I            +
     loved him
     "I pulled myself together and spoke slowly.
     "'The last word he pronounced was—your name.'
     couldn't. I could not tell her. It would have                                   +
     been too dark—too dark altogether. . . ."
     somber under an overcast                                                        +
     sky—seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.
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