1He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he2After two years of training he went to sea, and entering the regions so3A marvellous stillness pervaded the world, and the stars, together with4A month or so afterwards, when Jim, in answer to pointed questions,5‘Oh yes. I attended the inquiry,’ he would say, ‘and to this day I6‘The authorities were evidently of the same opinion. The inquiry was not7‘An outward-bound mail-boat had come in that afternoon, and the8‘How long he stood stock-still by the hatch expecting every moment to9‘“I was saying to myself, ‘Sink--curse you! Sink!’” These were the10‘He locked his fingers together and tore them apart. Nothing could be11‘He heard me out with his head on one side, and I had another glimpse12‘All around everything was still as far as the ear could reach. The mist13‘After these words, and without a change of attitude, he, so to speak,14‘I slept little, hurried over my breakfast, and after a slight15‘I did not start in search of Jim at once, only because I had really an16‘The time was coming when I should see him loved, trusted, admired, with17‘He came in at last; but I believe it was mostly the rain that did it;18‘Six months afterwards my friend (he was a cynical, more than19‘I have told you these two episodes at length to show his manner of20‘Late in the evening I entered his study, after traversing an imposing21‘I don’t suppose any of you have ever heard of Patusan?’ Marlow resumed,22‘The conquest of love, honour, men’s confidence--the pride of it, the23‘He did not return till next morning. He had been kept to dinner and for24‘The coast of Patusan (I saw it nearly two years afterwards) is straight25‘“This is where I was prisoner for three days,” he murmured to me (it26‘Doramin was one of the most remarkable men of his race I had ever seen.27‘Already the legend had gifted him with supernatural powers. Yes, it28‘The defeated Sherif Ali fled the country without making another stand,29‘This was the theory of Jim’s marital evening walks. I made a third on30‘He told me further that he didn’t know what made him hang on--but of31‘You may imagine with what interest I listened. All these details were32‘Jim took up an advantageous position and shepherded them out in a bunch33‘I was immensely touched: her youth, her ignorance, her pretty beauty,34Marlow swung his legs out, got up quickly, and staggered a little, as35‘But next morning, at the first bend of the river shutting off the36With these words Marlow had ended his narrative, and his audience had37‘It all begins with a remarkable exploit of a man called Brown, who38‘It all begins, as I’ve told you, with the man called Brown,’ ran the39‘All the events of that night have a great importance, since they40‘Brown’s object was to gain time by fooling with Kassim’s diplomacy. For41‘To the very last moment, till the full day came upon them with a42‘I don’t think he could do more than perhaps look upon that straight43‘Tamb’ Itam behind his chair was thunderstruck. The declaration produced44‘I don’t think they spoke together again. The boat entered a narrow45‘When Tamb’ Itam, paddling madly, came into the town-reach, the women,
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