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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 rattled away at such a rate he quite overwhelmed me. He seemed to be trying to make up for lots of silence, and actually hinted, laughing, that such was the case. 'Don't you talk with Mr. Kurtz? I said. 'You don't talk with that man you listen to him, he exclaimed with severe exaltation. 'But now He waved his arm, and in the twinkling of an eye was in the uttermost depths of despondency.
'No, not yet, he answered, with great composure. Then, alluding with a toss of the head to the tumult in the station-yard, 'When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages hate them to the death. He remained thoughtful for a moment. 'When you see Mr. Kurtz' he went on, 'tell him from me that everything here' he glanced at the deck is very satisfactory.
Money was such a common thing, after all; the silly labor of acquiring it could not be half so interesting as the spending of it. Anybody could make money, but to enjoy it, to circulate it judiciously, one must possess individuality of a sort. Money seemed to come to some people without effort, and from the strangest sources Kurtz, for instance, had grown rich out of coats and trousers!
I heard the name of Kurtz pronounced, then the words, 'take advantage of this unfortunate accident. One of the men was the manager. I wished him a good evening. 'Did you ever see anything like it eh? it is incredible, he said, and walked off. The other man remained. He was a first-class agent, young, gentlemanly, a bit reserved, with a forked little beard and a hooked nose.
Talking with. . . . I flung one shoe overboard, and became aware that that was exactly what I had been looking forward to a talk with Kurtz. I made the strange discovery that I had never imagined him as doing, you know, but as discoursing.
The man filled his life, occupied his thoughts, swayed his emotions. 'What can you expect? he burst out; 'he came to them with thunder and lightning, you know and they had never seen anything like it and very terrible. He could be very terrible. You can't judge Mr. Kurtz as you would an ordinary man. No, no, no!
He was not afraid of the natives; they would not stir till Mr. Kurtz gave the word. His ascendency was extraordinary. The camps of these people surrounded the place, and the chiefs came every day to see him. They would crawl. . . . 'I don't want to know anything of the ceremonies used when approaching Mr. Kurtz, I shouted.
Kurtz, I continued, severely, 'is General Manager, you won't have the opportunity. "He blew the candle out suddenly, and we went outside. The moon had risen. Black figures strolled about listlessly, pouring water on the glow, whence proceeded a sound of hissing; steam ascended in the moonlight, the beaten nigger groaned somewhere.
'Ivory, jerked the nephew; 'lots of it prime sort lots most annoying, from him. 'And with that? questioned the heavy rumble. 'Invoice, was the reply fired out, so to speak. Then silence. They had been talking about Kurtz. "I was broad awake by this time, but, lying perfectly at ease, remained still, having no inducement to change my position.
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