The movement of the woman was stately, and the effect of the torchlight on the face was sinister.

half-cooked cold dough,13 of a dirty lavender colour, they kept wrapped in leaves, and now and then swallowed a piece of, but so small that it seemed done more for the looks of the thing than for any serious purpose of sustenance.

You should have heard him say, ‘My ivory.’ Oh yes, I heard him. ‘My Intended, my ivory, my station, my river, my——’ Everything belonged to him.

The Director of Companies was our captain and our host.

They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force—nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.

‘Are you an alienist?’35 I interrupted. ‘Every doctor should be—a little,’

Upon this they forgot Kurtz, and began to howl at me with indignant protests.

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.

‘The only book I had left, and I thought I had lost it,’ he said, looking at it ecstatically. ‘So many accidents happen to a man going about alone, you know.