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Do you like get a little more ivory?
eagerly.
There is a great disturbance in the country. Do you want ivory?
“Those workmen of ours are no good at all,
“This Makola is invaluable.
the ungrateful brutes!
I forbid you to touch them. I order you to throw them into the river.
but his words seemed to Kayerts full of ominous menace!
“Slavery is an awful thing,”
They believed their words. Everybody shows a respectful deference to certain sounds that he and his fellows can make. But about feelings people really know nothing. We talk with indignation or enthusiasm; we talk about oppression, cruelty, crime, devotion, self-sacrifice, virtue, and we know nothing real beyond the words. Nobody knows what suffering or sacrifice mean—except, perhaps the victims of the mysterious purpose of these illusions.
opprobrious epithet.
But they were only mourning for those they had lost by the witchcraft of white men,
its very hopelessness and savagery seemed to approach them nearer,
Gobila’s people drummed and yelled to every new moon,
but Carlier had a fit of rage over it and talked about the necessity of exterminating all the niggers before the country could be made habitable.
devil-may-care
you stingy old slave-dealer.
You are a slave-dealer. I am a slave-dealer.
There’s nothing but slave-dealers in this cursed country.
make me his slave
He had shot an unarmed man.
Progress and civilization and all the virtues.
(since we know that civilization follows trade)
who was hanging by a leather strap from the cross.
he was putting out a swollen tongue at his Managing Director.
