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Heart of Darkness - Conrad, Joseph ยท 65 words
He kept on looking out past me with fiery, longing eyes, with a mingled expression of wistfulness and hate. He made no answer, but I saw a smile, a smile of indefinable meaning, appear on his colourless lips that a moment after twitched convulsively. Do I not. he said slowly, gasping, as if the words had been torn out of him by a supernatural power.
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