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| | Heart of Darkness [Conrad] |
 | | And farther west on the upper reaches the place of the monstrous town was still marked ominously on the sky, a brooding gloom in sunshine, a lurid glare under the stars. |
 | | But there was in it one river especially, a mighty big river, that you could see on the map, resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at rest curving afar over a vast country, and its tail lost in the depths of the land. |
 | | No doubt he was; but he had been a couple of years al- ready out there engaged in the noble cause, you know, and he probably felt the need at last of asserting his self-respect in some way. |
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