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Heart of Darkness - Conrad, Joseph ยท 75 words
Thus I was left at last with a slim packet of letters and the girls portrait. She struck me as beautiful I mean she had a beautiful expression. I know that the sunlight can be made to lie, too, yet one felt that no manipulation of light and pose could have conveyed the delicate shade of truthfulness upon those features. She seemed ready to listen without mental reservation, without suspicion, without a thought for herself.
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