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'Close the shutter, said Kurtz suddenly one day; 'I can't bear to look at this. I did so. There was a silence. 'Oh, but I will wring your heart yet! he cried at the invisible wilderness. "We broke down as I had expected and had to lie up for repairs at the head of an island. This delay was the first thing that shook Kurtz's confidence.
The essentials of this affair lay deep under the surface, beyond my reach, and beyond my power of meddling. "Towards the evening of the second day we judged ourselves about eight miles from Kurtz's station.
Kurtz's reputation but you are a brother seaman and 'All right, said I, after a time. 'Mr. Kurtz's reputation is safe with me. I did not know how truly I spoke. "He informed me, lowering his voice, that it was Kurtz who had ordered the attack to be made on the steamer. 'He hated sometimes the idea of being taken away and then again.... But I don't understand these matters. I am a simple man.
Every family wanted Peter to come home to tea, but he went across to Ross's, and afterwards down to Kurtz's place, and bled and inoculated six cows or so in a new way, and after tea he rode off over the gap to see his friend. By his paths through the parched desolation, Hot rides and the terrible tramps; By the hunger, the thirst, the privation Of his work in the furthermost camps;
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.
'There was the making of an immense success, said the man, who was an organist, I believe, with lank grey hair flowing over a greasy coat-collar. I had no reason to doubt his statement; and to this day I am unable to say what was Kurtz's profession, whether he ever had any which was the greatest of his talents.
When I say very soon I mean it comparatively. It was just two months from the day we left the creek when we came to the bank below Kurtz's station. "Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings. An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish.
Kurtz's greeting was warm as Bob strolled into the stately show-room with its high-backed Flemish-oak chairs, its great carved tables, its paneled walls with their antlered decorations. This, it may be said, was not a shop, not a store where clothes were sold, but a studio where men's distinctive garments were draped, and the difference was perfectly apparent on the first of each month.
I heard him mumbling and stammering something about 'brother seaman couldn't conceal knowledge of matters that would affect Mr. Kurtz's reputation. I waited. For him evidently Mr. Kurtz was not in his grave; I suspect that for him Mr. Kurtz was one of the immortals. 'Well! said I at last, 'speak out. As it happens, I am Mr. Kurtz's friend in a way.
He had no desire to bind himself to Kurtz's service for six months or for any other period; nor had he the least thought of living up to his agreement until Lorelei began to treat the matter seriously. Then he objected blankly: "Why, it was all right as a joke, but I don't want to be a TAILOR. There's no romance in woolen goods." "How much do you owe?" she asked. "Really, I've no idea.
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