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Heart of Darkness - Conrad, Joseph ยท 78 words
The pipe soothed him, and gradually I made out he had run away from school, had gone to sea in a Russian ship; ran away again; served some time in English ships; was now reconciled with the arch priest. He made a point of that. But when one is young one must see things, gather experience, ideas; enlarge the mind. Here. I interrupted. You can never tell. Here I met Mr. Kurtz, he said, youthfully solemn and reproachful.
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