I heard her weeping; she had hidden her face in her hands. It seemed to me that the house
would collapse before I could escape, that the heavens would fall upon my head. But nothing
happened. The heavens do not fall for such a trifle. Would they have fallen, I wonder, if I had
rendered Kurtz that justice which was his due? Hadn’t he said he wanted only justice? But I
couldn’t. I could not tell her. It would have been too dark—too dark altogether. . . .”
Marlow ceased, and sat apart, indistinct and silent, in the pose of a meditating Buddha. Nobody
moved for a time. “We have lost the first of the ebb,” said the Director suddenly. I raised my
head. The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the
uttermost ends of the earth flowed sombre under an overcast sky—seemed to lead into the heart
of an immense darkness.
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