Heart of Darkness (Webster's French Thesaurus Edition)

HEART OF DARKNESS WEBSTER'S FRENCH THESAURUS EDITION

for ESL, EFL, ELP, TOEFL®, TOEIC®, and AP® Test Preparation

Joseph Conrad

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Heart of Darkness Webster's French Thesaurus Edition for ESL, EFL, ELP, TOEFL®, TOEIC®, and AP® Test Preparation

Joseph Conrad

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Contents PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR .......................................................................................... 1 PART I .............................................................................................................................. 2 PART II ........................................................................................................................... 36 PART III .......................................................................................................................... 64 GLOSSARY ..................................................................................................................... 93

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PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR Webster’s paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-French thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad was edited for three audiences. The first includes French-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL® or TOEIC® preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or French speakers enrolled in English speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in French in order to take 1 foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement® (AP®) or similar examinations. By using the Webster's French Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in French or English. Webster’s edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of difficult and potentially ambiguous English words. Rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority compared to “difficult, yet commonly used” words. Rather than supply a single translation, many words are translated for a variety of meanings in French, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of English, and avoid them using the notes as a pure translation crutch. Having the reader decipher a word’s meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. If a difficult word is not translated on a page, chances are that it has been translated on a previous page. A more complete glossary of translations is supplied at the end of the book; translations are extracted from Webster’s Online Dictionary. Definitions of remaining terms as well as translations can be found at www.websters-onlinedictionary.org. Please send suggestions to [email protected] The Editor Webster’s Online Dictionary www.websters-online-dictionary.org

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PART I The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide.% The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway. In the offing the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint, and in the luminous space the tanned sails of the barges drifting up with the tide seemed to stand still in red clusters of canvas sharply peaked, with gleams of varnished sprits. A haze rested on the low shores that ran out to sea in vanishing flatness. The air was dark above Gravesend, and farther back still seemed condensed into a mournful gloom, brooding motionless over the biggest, and the greatest, town on earth. The Director of Companies was our captain and our host. We four affectionately watched his back as he stood in the bows looking to seaward. On the whole river there was nothing that looked half so nautical. He resembled a pilot, which to a seaman is trustworthiness personified. It was difficult to realize his work was not out there in the luminous estuary, but behind him, within the brooding gloom. Between us there was, as I have already said somewhere, the bond of the sea. Besides holding our hearts together through long periods of separation, it had the effect of making us tolerant of each other's yarns--and even convictions. The

French affectionately: affectueusement, de manière affectueuse, de façon affectueuse. bows: épaulure, boucles, courbures. brooding: élevage des poussins. condensed: condensé, condensai, condensa, condensèrent, condensâmes, condensas, condensâtes. flatness: platitude. flutter: voltiger, scintillement, flottement, flirter, conter fleurette,

battement, voleter, flutter, chevrotement, pleurage, flottement aéroélastique. gleams: luit. haze: brume, voile, brume sèche, chicaner, brouillard, trouble, vapeur. interminable: interminable. luminous: lumineux. motionless: immobile, au repos, fixe. mournful: sombre, morne, triste, mélancolique. nautical: nautique.

personified: personnifias, personnifiâtes, personnifiai, personnifièrent, personnifiâmes, personnifia, personnifié. seaman: marin. tanned: bronzé, basané, tanné. vanishing: disparaissant. varnished: verni. waterway: voie navigable, voie d'eau. welded: soudas, soudâtes, souda, soudèrent, soudai, soudâmes, soudé. yawl: yawl, yole.

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Lawyer--the best of old fellows--had, because of his many years and many virtues, the only cushion on deck, and was lying on the only rug. The Accountant had brought out already a box of dominoes, and was toying architecturally with the bones. Marlow sat cross-legged right aft, leaning against the mizzen-mast. He had sunken cheeks, a yellow complexion, a straight back, an ascetic aspect, and, with his arms dropped, the palms of hands outwards, resembled an idol. The Director, satisfied the anchor had good hold, made his way aft and sat down amongst us. We exchanged a few words lazily. Afterwards there was silence on board the yacht. For some reason or other we did not begin that game of dominoes. We felt meditative, and fit for nothing but placid staring. The day was ending in a serenity of still and exquisite brilliance. The water shone pacifically; the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light; the very mist on the Essex marshes was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores in diaphanous folds. Only the gloom to the west, brooding over the upper reaches, became more somber every minute, as if angered by the approach of the sun.% And at last, in its curved and imperceptible fall, the sun sank low, and from glowing white changed to a dull red without rays and without heat, as if about to go out suddenly, stricken to death by the touch of that gloom brooding over a crowd of men. Forthwith a change came over the waters, and the serenity became less brilliant but more profound. The old river in its broad reach rested unruffled at the decline of day, after ages of good service done to the race that peopled its banks, spread out in the tranquil dignity of a waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth. We looked at the venerable stream not in the vivid flush of a short day that comes and departs for ever, but in the august light of abiding memories. And indeed nothing is easier for a man who has, as the phrase goes, "followed the sea" with reverence and affection, than to evoke the great spirit of the past upon the lower reaches of the Thames. The tidal current runs to and fro in its unceasing service, crowded with memories of men and ships it had borne to the rest of home or to the battles of the sea. It had known and served all the

French abiding: demeurant, endurant, permanent, soutenant. aft: à l'arrière, arrière. architecturally: de manière architectural, de façon architecturale. ascetic: ascétique, ascète. complexion: teint, complexion. departs: part. diaphanous: diaphane. draping: drapant. evoke: évoquer, évoques, évoquent, évoque, évoquez, évoquons,

rappeler. forthwith: immédiatement. idol: idole. immensity: immensité. imperceptible: imperceptible. lazily: de manière paresseuse, de façon paresseuse, paresseusement. meditative: méditatif. pacifically: de manière pacifique, de façon pacifique, pacifiquement. placid: placide. radiant: rayonnant, radieux.

reverence: révérence. serenity: sérénité. somber: sombre, maussade. speck: tache, moucheture. stricken: affligé, accablé, blessé. sunken: creux, cave. tranquil: tranquille, calme, paisible. unceasing: incessant. unstained: sans tache. uttermost: extrême. venerable: vénérable. wooded: boisé.

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men of whom the nation is proud, from Sir Francis Drake to Sir John Franklin, knights all, titled and untitled--the great knights-errant of the sea. It had borne all the ships whose names are like jewels flashing in the night of time, from the Golden Hind returning with her round flanks full of treasure, to be visited by the Queen's Highness and thus pass out of the gigantic tale, to the Erebus and Terror, bound on other conquests-- and that never returned. It had known the ships and the men. They had sailed from Deptford, from Greenwich, from Erith-the adventurers and the settlers; kings' ships and the ships of men on `Change; captains, admirals, the dark "interlopers" of the Eastern trade, and the commissioned "generals" of East India fleets. Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of the might within the land, bearers of a spark from the sacred fire. What greatness had not floated on the ebb of that river into the mystery of an unknown earth! . . . The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealths, the germs of empires.% The sun set; the dusk fell on the stream, and lights began to appear along the shore. The Chapman lighthouse, a three-legged thing erect on a mud-flat, shone strongly. Lights of ships moved in the fairway--a great stir of lights going up and going down. 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. "And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth." He was the only man of us who still "followed the sea." The worst that could be said of him was that he did not represent his class. He was a seaman, but he was a wanderer, too, while most seamen lead, if one may so express it, a sedentary life. Their minds are of the stay-at-home order, and their home is always with them--the ship; and so is their country--the sea. One ship is very much like another, and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign faces, the changing immensity of life, glide past, veiled not by a sense of mystery but by a slightly disdainful

French adventurers: aventuriers. captains: capitaines. dusk: crépuscule. ebb: reflux, marée descendante, jusant, refluer. erect: fonder, droit, ériger, construire, édifier, bâtir. farther: plus loin. flanks: flancs. flashing: clignotement. floated: flotté. germs: germes.

gigantic: gigantesque, énorme, formidable, colossal. glare: éblouissement, éclat, reflet. glide: planer, glisser, vol plané, coulé, patin. gloom: mélancolie, obscurité. greatness: grandeur. immutability: immutabilité, immuabilité. lighthouse: phare. lurid: âcre, aigu, acéré, rude, coupant, aigre, tranchant, perçant, piquant.

messengers: messagers. monstrous: monstrueux. ominously: de façon inquiétante, de manière inquiétante. sailed: navigué. seamen: marins. sedentary: sédentaire. settlers: colons. shores: rives. spark: étincelle. veiled: voilé. wanderer: vagabond.

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ignorance; for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence and as inscrutable as Destiny. For the rest, after his hours of work, a casual stroll or a casual spree on shore suffices to unfold for him the secret of a whole continent, and generally he finds the secret not worth knowing. The yarns of seamen have a direct simplicity, the whole meaning of which lies within the shell of a cracked nut. But Marlow was not typical (if his propensity to spin yarns be excepted), and to him the meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel but outside, enveloping the tale which brought it out only as a glow brings out a haze, in the likeness of one of these misty halos that sometimes are made visible by the spectral illumination of moonshine.% His remark did not seem at all surprising. It was just like Marlow. It was accepted in silence. No one took the trouble to grunt even; and presently he said, very slow-"I was thinking of very old times, when the Romans first came here, nineteen hundred years ago--the other day. . . . Light came out of this river since--you say Knights? Yes; but it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker--may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday. Imagine the feelings of a commander of a fine--what d'ye call `em?--trireme in the Mediterranean, ordered suddenly to the north; run overland across the Gauls in a hurry; put in charge of one of these craft the legionaries,--a wonderful lot of handy men they must have been too-used to build, apparently by the hundred, in a month or two, if we may believe what we read. Imagine him here-- the very end of the world, a sea the color of lead, a sky the color of smoke, a kind of ship about as rigid as a concertina-- and going up this river with stores, or orders, or what you like. Sandbanks, marshes, forests, savages,--precious little to eat fit for a civilized man, nothing but Thames water to drink. No Falernian wine here, no going ashore. Here and there a military camp lost in a wilderness, like a needle in a bundle of hay--cold, fog, tempests, disease, exile, and death,-- death skulking in the air, in the water, in the bush. They must have been dying like flies here. Oh yes--he did it. Did it very

French ashore: à terre. blaze: flamme, feu, flamber. bundle: paquet, ballot, faisceau, liasse, botte, faisceau de fibres. civilized: civilisé, civilisâmes, civilisèrent, civilisai, civilisa, civilisâtes, civilisas. color: couleur, colorer. cracked: fêlé. enveloping: enveloppant. flies: vole. grunt: grognement.

handy: commode, opportun, convenable, maniable, pratique. illumination: éclairage, illumination, éclairement, enluminure. inscrutable: impénétrable. kernel: noyau, amande, centre. lightning: éclair, foudre. likeness: ressemblance. misty: brumeux. nut: écrou, noix, fruit à coque, coinceur. overland: par voie de terre.

propensity: propension. spectral: spectral. spin: rotation, vrille, filler la laine, tourner, filer, spin. stroll: promenade, se promener, faire un tour, flâner. suffices: suffit. unfold: déplier, déplie, déplient, déplies, dépliez, déplions, se dérouler. wilderness: désert. yarns: fils.

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well, too, no doubt, and without thinking much about it either, except afterwards to brag of what he had gone through in his time, perhaps. They were men enough to face the darkness. And perhaps he was cheered by keeping his eye on a chance of promotion to the fleet at Ravenna by-and-by, if he had good friends in Rome and survived the awful climate. Or think of a decent young citizen in a toga--perhaps too much dice, you know--coming out here in the train of some prefect, or tax-gatherer, or trader even, to mend his fortunes. Land in a swamp, march through the woods, and in some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him,-- all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men. There's no initiation either into such mysteries. He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable. And it has a fascination, too, that goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination--you know. Imagine the growing regrets, the longing to escape, the powerless disgust, the surrender, the hate." He paused.% "Mind," he began again, lifting one arm from the elbow, the palm of the hand outwards, so that, with his legs folded before him, he had the pose of a Buddha preaching in European clothes and without a lotus-flower--"Mind, none of us would feel exactly like this. What saves us is efficiency--the devotion to efficiency. But these chaps were not much account, really. They were no colonists; their administration was merely a squeeze, and nothing more, I suspect. They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force-- nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others. They grabbed what they could get for the sake of what was to be got. It was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind--as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness. The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretense but an idea;

French aggravated: aggravé, aggravai, aggrava, aggravâmes, aggravèrent, aggravas, aggravâtes, agaçâtes, agaça, agaçai, agacèrent. boast: fanfaronner, vanter, faire le malin, se vanter. brag: fanfaronner, faire le malin, se vanter. brute: brute. chaps: jambières de cuir, types. colonists: colons. detestable: détestable.

devotion: dévotion, dévouement. dice: dé, dés. disgust: dégoût. flatter: flatter, flatte, flattons, flattez, flattes, flattent, aduler, adule, adules, adulent, adulez. incomprehensible: incompréhensible. initiation: amorçage, initiation. longing: désir, aspiration, envie. mend: rapiécer, réparer, raccommoder, repriser. outwards: vers l'extérieur.

powerless: impuissant. preaching: prêchant. prefect: préfet. pretense: prétention. redeems: rachète. regrets: regrette. savagery: barbarie, sauvagerie. saves: épargne, sauve, économise, enregistre, sauvegarde. sentimental: sentimental. swamp: marais, marécage, inonder. trader: commerçant, marchand.

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and an unselfish belief in the idea--something you can set up, and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to. . . ." He broke off. Flames glided in the river, small green flames, red flames, white flames, pursuing, overtaking, joining, crossing each other-- then separating slowly or hastily. The traffic of the great city went on in the deepening night upon the sleepless river. We looked on, waiting patiently-there was nothing else to do till the end of the flood; but it was only after a long silence, when he said, in a hesitating voice, "I suppose you fellows remember I did once turn fresh-water sailor for a bit," that we knew we were fated, before the ebb began to run, to hear about one of Marlow's inconclusive experiences.% "I don't want to bother you much with what happened to me personally," he began, showing in this remark the weakness of many tellers of tales who seem so often unaware of what their audience would best like to hear; "yet to understand the effect of it on me you ought to know how I got out there, what I saw, how I went up that river to the place where I first met the poor chap. It was the farthest point of navigation and the culminating point of my experience. It seemed somehow to throw a kind of light on everything about me-- and into my thoughts. It was somber enough too--and pitiful-- not extraordinary in any way-not very clear either. No, not very clear. And yet it seemed to throw a kind of light. "I had then, as you remember, just returned to London after a lot of Indian Ocean, Pacific, China Seas--a regular dose of the East--six years or so, and I was loafing about, hindering you fellows in your work and invading your homes, just as though I had got a heavenly mission to civilize you. It was very fine for a time, but after a bit I did get tired of resting. Then I began to look for a ship--I should think the hardest work on earth. But the ships wouldn't even look at me. And I got tired of that game too. "Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps. I would look for hours at South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when I saw one that looked particularly inviting on a map (but they all look

French bow: arc, proue, archet, avant, s'incliner, saluer. civilize: civiliser, civilisons, civilisez, civilisent, civilises, civilise. culminating: culminant. deepening: approfondissant, approfondissement. farthest: le plus loin. fated: destiné, fatal. flood: inondation, inonder, flot, combler, submerger, marée montante, marée haute, abreuver,

noyer, crue, déluge. glided: glissé, glissèrent, glissa, glissées, glissée, glissés. hastily: à la hâte, hâtivement, de manière précipitée, de façon précipitée, précipitamment. heavenly: céleste. hesitating: hésitant, barguignant. hindering: gênant. inconclusive: inconcluant. invading: envahissant. inviting: invitant.

maps: cartes. navigation: navigation. overtaking: dépassant, doublant, dépassement, rattrapage. pursuing: poursuivant. sacrifice: sacrifier, sacrifice, consacrer, offrir, faire offrande, immoler. sailor: marin, matelot, navigateur. separating: séparant, séparer. sleepless: sans sommeil. unaware: inconscient, ignorant. unselfish: désintéressé.

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that) I would put my finger on it and say, `When I grow up I will go there.' The North Pole was one of these places, I remember. Well, I haven't been there yet, and shall not try now. The glamour's off. Other places were scattered about the Equator, and in every sort of latitude all over the two hemispheres. I have been in some of them, and . . . well, we won't talk about that. But there was one yet-the biggest, the most blank, so to speak-- that I had a hankering after.% "True, by this time it was not a blank space any more. It had got filled since my boyhood with rivers and lakes and names. It had ceased to be a blank space of delightful mystery--a white patch for a boy to dream gloriously over. It had become a place of darkness. 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. And as I looked at the map of it in a shopwindow, it fascinated me as a snake would a bird-- a silly little bird. Then I remembered there was a big concern, a Company for trade on that river. Dash it all! I thought to myself, they can't trade without using some kind of craft on that lot of fresh water--steamboats! Why shouldn't I try to get charge of one? I went on along Fleet Street, but could not shake off the idea. The snake had charmed me. "You understand it was a Continental concern, that Trading society; but I have a lot of relations living on the Continent, because it's cheap and not so nasty as it looks, they say. "I am sorry to own I began to worry them. This was already a fresh departure for me. I was not used to get things that way, you know. I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go. I wouldn't have believed it of myself; but, then--you see--I felt somehow I must get there by hook or by crook. So I worried them. The men said `My dear fellow,' and did nothing. Then--would you believe it?--I tried the women. I, Charlie Marlow, set the women to work-- to get a job. Heavens! Well, you see, the notion drove me. I had an aunt, a dear enthusiastic soul. She wrote: `It will be delightful. I am ready to do anything, anything for you. It is a glorious idea. I know the wife of a

French afar: loin. boyhood: enfance. ceased: cessé. charmed: charmé. crook: escroc, crosse, courbure, coude, houlette. curving: courbage, courbure de cylindre, courbement, cintrage, incurvation de la chaîne. delightful: délicieux, ravissant, charmant, superbe. depths: profondeurs.

enthusiastic: enthousiaste. fascinated: fascinas, fascinâtes, fasciné, fascinai, fascinèrent, fascina, fascinâmes. glorious: glorieux, fameux. gloriously: de manière glorieuse, de façon glorieuse. hemispheres: hémisphères. hook: crochet, hameçon, agrafe, accrocher, croc. immense: énorme, immense, formidable.

lakes: lacs. latitude: latitude. mighty: puissant. resembling: ressemblant, rejoignant. scattered: dispersé, dispersâmes, dispersèrent, dispersas, dispersai, dispersa, dispersâtes, répandu, répandîtes, répandit, répandis. shake: secouer, secoue, secouons, secouez, secoues, secouent, ébranler, ébranlez, ébranles, ébranlent, ébranle. snake: serpent.

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very high personage in the Administration, and also a man who has lots of influence with,' &c., &c. She was determined to make no end of fuss to get me appointed skipper of a river steamboat, if such was my fancy.% "I got my appointment--of course; and I got it very quick. It appears the Company had received news that one of their captains had been killed in a scuffle with the natives. This was my chance, and it made me the more anxious to go. It was only months and months afterwards, when I made the attempt to recover what was left of the body, that I heard the original quarrel arose from a misunderstanding about some hens. Yes, two black hens. Fresleven--that was the fellow's name, a Dane--thought himself wronged somehow in the bargain, so he went ashore and started to hammer the chief of the village with a stick. Oh, it didn't surprise me in the least to hear this, and at the same time to be told that Fresleven was the gentlest, quietest creature that ever walked on two legs. No doubt he was; but he had been a couple of years already out there engaged in the noble cause, you know, and he probably felt the need at last of asserting his selfrespect in some way. Therefore he whacked the old nigger mercilessly, while a big crowd of his people watched him, thunderstruck, till some man,-- I was told the chief's son,--in desperation at hearing the old chap yell, made a tentative jab with a spear at the white man-- and of course it went quite easy between the shoulder-blades. Then the whole population cleared into the forest, expecting all kinds of calamities to happen, while, on the other hand, the steamer Fresleven commanded left also in a bad panic, in charge of the engineer, I believe. Afterwards nobody seemed to trouble much about Fresleven's remains, till I got out and stepped into his shoes. I couldn't let it rest, though; but when an opportunity offered at last to meet my predecessor, the grass growing through his ribs was tall enough to hide his bones. They were all there. The supernatural being had not been touched after he fell. And the village was deserted, the huts gaped black, rotting, all askew within the fallen enclosures. A calamity had come to it, sure enough. The people had vanished. Mad terror had scattered them, men, women, and children, through the bush, and they had never returned. What became of the hens I don't know either. I should think the cause

French asserting: affirmant. bargain: marchander, négocier, bonne affaire, affaire, occasion, marché. calamity: calamité, plaie, fléau. deserted: déserté. desperation: désespoir. enclosures: enclos. fuss: agitation. hammer: marteau, marteler, percuteur. jab: coup de pointe, coup, piqûre, piquer.

mercilessly: de manière impitoyable, de façon impitoyable. misunderstanding: malentendu. nigger: bougnoul. personage: personnage. predecessor: prédécesseur. quarrel: querelle, dispute, se quereller, se disputer, noise. ribs: côtes. rotting: pourrissant. scuffle: bagarre, combat, bataille, baroud, rixe, se bagarrer.

skipper: capitaine, skipper. spear: lance, javelot. steamboat: bateau à vapeur. steamer: vapeur, marmite à vapeur. supernatural: surnaturel. tentative: provisoire, expérimental, tentative. terror: terreur, effroi. vanished: disparu, disparurent, disparûtes, disparut, disparûmes, disparus. yell: clamer, hurler, hurlement.

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of progress got them, anyhow. However, through this glorious affair I got my appointment, before I had fairly begun to hope for it.% "I flew around like mad to get ready, and before forty-eight hours I was crossing the Channel to show myself to my employers, and sign the contract. In a very few hours I arrived in a city that always makes me think of a whited sepulcher. Prejudice no doubt. I had no difficulty in finding the Company's offices. It was the biggest thing in the town, and everybody I met was full of it. They were going to run an over-sea empire, and make no end of coin by trade. "A narrow and deserted street in deep shadow, high houses, innumerable windows with venetian blinds, a dead silence, grass sprouting between the stones, imposing carriage archways right and left, immense double doors standing ponderously ajar. I slipped through one of these cracks, went up a swept and ungarnished staircase, as arid as a desert, and opened the first door I came to. Two women, one fat and the other slim, sat on straw-bottomed chairs, knitting black wool. The slim one got up and walked straight at me-- still knitting with downcast eyes--and only just as I began to think of getting out of her way, as you would for a somnambulist, stood still, and looked up. Her dress was as plain as an umbrella-cover, and she turned round without a word and preceded me into a waiting-room. I gave my name, and looked about. Deal table in the middle, plain chairs all round the walls, on one end a large shining map, marked with all the colors of a rainbow. There was a vast amount of red--good to see at any time, because one knows that some real work is done in there, a deuce of a lot of blue, a little green, smears of orange, and, on the East Coast, a purple patch, to show where the jolly pioneers of progress drink the jolly lagerbeer. However, I wasn't going into any of these. I was going into the yellow. Dead in the center. And the river was there--fascinating--deadly--like a snake. Ough! A door opened, a white-haired secretarial head, but wearing a compassionate expression, appeared, and a skinny forefinger beckoned me into the sanctuary. Its light was dim, and a heavy writing-desk squatted in the middle. From behind that structure came out an impression of pale plumpness in a frock-coat. The great man himself. He was five feet six, I should judge, and

French ajar: entrouvert. anyhow: de toute façon. arid: aride. blinds: aveugle, éblouit. center: centre, centrer, axe. colors: colore. compassionate: compatissant. cracks: fissures. deuce: égalité, deux. dim: faible, sombre, obscur, brouiller, rendre confus, rendre trouble. downcast: abattu.

forefinger: index. imposing: imposant, contraignant. innumerable: innombrable. jolly: gai, joyeux, enjoué. plumpness: turgescence, rondeur. ponderously: de façon pesante, de manière pesante. preceded: précédas, précédâtes, précédâmes, précédai, précéda, précédèrent, précédé, avancé, avançâtes, avanças, avançâmes. rainbow: arc en ciel.

sanctuary: sanctuaire, asile, réserve, refuge. secretarial: de secrétaire, de secrétariat. sepulcher: sépulcre. skinny: maigre, maigrichon. smears: enduit. somnambulist: somnambule. sprouting: pousse. venetian: vénitien. writing-desk: secrétaire, commode à tablette pour écrire.

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had his grip on the handle-end of ever so many millions. He shook hands, I fancy, murmured vaguely, was satisfied with my French. Bon voyage.% "In about forty-five seconds I found myself again in the waiting-room with the compassionate secretary, who, full of desolation and sympathy, made me sign some document. I believe I undertook amongst other things not to disclose any trade secrets. Well, I am not going to. "I began to feel slightly uneasy. You know I am not used to such ceremonies, and there was something ominous in the atmosphere. It was just as though I had been let into some conspiracy-- I don't know--something not quite right; and I was glad to get out. In the outer room the two women knitted black wool feverishly. People were arriving, and the younger one was walking back and forth introducing them. The old one sat on her chair. Her flat cloth slippers were propped up on a foot-warmer, and a cat reposed on her lap. She wore a starched white affair on her head, had a wart on one cheek, and silver-rimmed spectacles hung on the tip of her nose. She glanced at me above the glasses. The swift and indifferent placidity of that look troubled me. Two youths with foolish and cheery countenances were being piloted over, and she threw at them the same quick glance of unconcerned wisdom. She seemed to know all about them and about me too. An eerie feeling came over me. She seemed uncanny and fateful. Often far away there I thought of these two, guarding the door of Darkness, knitting black wool as for a warm pall, one introducing, introducing continuously to the unknown, the other scrutinizing the cheery and foolish faces with unconcerned old eyes. Ave! Old knitter of black wool. Morituri te salutant. Not many of those she looked at ever saw her again--not half, by a long way. "There was yet a visit to the doctor. `A simple formality,' assured me the secretary, with an air of taking an immense part in all my sorrows. Accordingly a young chap wearing his hat over the left eyebrow, some clerk I suppose,--there must have been clerks in the business, though the house was as still as a house in a city of the dead,-- came from somewhere up-stairs, and led me forth. He was shabby and careless, with ink-stains on the sleeves of his jacket, and his cravat

French arriving: arrivant. careless: négligent, distrait, étourdi, insouciant. ceremonies: cérémonies. cheery: gai. desolation: désolation, dévastation, solitude. disclose: divulguer. eerie: étrange, sinistre. eyebrow: sourcil. fateful: fatidique, fatal. feverishly: de manière fiévreuse, de

façon fiévreuse, fiévreusement. guarding: garde. indifferent: indifférent, impartial. knitted: tricoté. knitter: tricoteur. knitting: tricotage, tricot. ominous: inquiétant. pall: drap mortuaire, manteau. placidity: placidité. reposed: reposé. scrutinizing: scrutant. shabby: mesquin, usé, miteux.

sleeves: manches. slippers: pantoufles. sorrows: chagrins. spectacles: lunettes. starched: amidonné. troubled: inquiet. uncanny: mystérieux. unconcerned: imperturbable. undertook: entrepris, entreprîtes, entreprirent, entreprîmes, entreprit. uneasy: agité, inquiet, gêné. wart: verrue.

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was large and billowy, under a chin shaped like the toe of an old boot. It was a little too early for the doctor, so I proposed a drink, and thereupon he developed a vein of joviality. As we sat over our vermouths he glorified the Company's business, and by-and-by I expressed casually my surprise at him not going out there. He became very cool and collected all at once. `I am not such a fool as I look, quoth Plato to his disciples,' he said sententiously, emptied his glass with great resolution, and we rose.% "The old doctor felt my pulse, evidently thinking of something else the while. `Good, good for there,' he mumbled, and then with a certain eagerness asked me whether I would let him measure my head. Rather surprised, I said Yes, when he produced a thing like calipers and got the dimensions back and front and every way, taking notes carefully. He was an unshaven little man in a threadbare coat like a gaberdine, with his feet in slippers, and I thought him a harmless fool. `I always ask leave, in the interests of science, to measure the crania of those going out there,' he said. `And when they come back, too?' I asked. `Oh, I never see them,' he remarked; `and, moreover, the changes take place inside, you know.' He smiled, as if at some quiet joke. `So you are going out there. Famous. Interesting too.' He gave me a searching glance, and made another note. `Ever any madness in your family?' he asked, in a matter-of-fact tone. I felt very annoyed. `Is that question in the interests of science too?' `It would be,' he said, without taking notice of my irritation, `interesting for science to watch the mental changes of individuals, on the spot, but . . .' `Are you an alienist?' I interrupted. `Every doctor should be--a little,' answered that original, imperturbably. `I have a little theory which you Messieurs who go out there must help me to prove. This is my share in the advantages my country shall reap from the possession of such a magnificent dependency. The mere wealth I leave to others. Pardon my questions, but you are the first Englishman coming under my observation. . . .' I hastened to assure him I was not in the least typical. `If I were,' said I, `I wouldn't be talking like this with you.' `What you say is rather profound, and probably erroneous,' he said, with a laugh. `Avoid irritation more than exposure to the sun. Adieu. How do you English say, eh? Good-by. Ah!

French adieu: adieu. billowy: houleux. calipers: compas. casually: de manière désinvolte, de façon désinvolte. eagerness: avidité. emptied: vidé. gaberdine: gabardine. glorified: glorifia, glorifiai, glorifiâmes, glorifias, glorifiâtes, glorifièrent, glorifié. harmless: inoffensif, anodin, innocent.

hastened: hâta, hâtèrent, hâtâtes, hâtas, hâtâmes, hâtai, hâté. imperturbably: de manière imperturbable, de façon imperturbable. irritation: irritation. joviality: jovialité. madness: folie, aliénation, aberration, affolement. mumbled: marmonnas, marmottâtes, marmottas, marmottâmes, marmottai, marmotta, marmonnâtes,

marmottèrent, marmonnèrent, marmonna, Marmotté. reap: moissonner, moissonne, moissonnent, moissonnes, moissonnez, moissonnons. sententiously: de manière sentencieuse, de façon sentencieuse. thereupon: à ce sujet, sur ce. threadbare: usé. toe: orteil, doigt du pied, bout. unshaven: non rasé. vein: veine, filon, veiner, nervure.

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Good-by. %Adieu. In the tropics one must before everything keep calm.' . . . He lifted a warning forefinger. . . . `Du calme, du calme. Adieu.' "One thing more remained to do--say good-by to my excellent aunt. I found her triumphant. I had a cup of tea--the last decent cup of tea for many days--and in a room that most soothingly looked just as you would expect a lady's drawing-room to look, we had a long quiet chat by the fireside. In the course of these confidences it became quite plain to me I had been represented to the wife of the high dignitary, and goodness knows to how many more people besides, as an exceptional and gifted creature-- a piece of good fortune for the Company--a man you don't get hold of every day. Good heavens! and I was going to take charge of a two-penny-halfpenny river-steamboat with a penny whistle attached! It appeared, however, I was also one of the Workers, with a capital-you know. Something like an emissary of light, something like a lower sort of apostle. There had been a lot of such rot let loose in print and talk just about that time, and the excellent woman, living right in the rush of all that humbug, got carried off her feet. She talked about `weaning those ignorant millions from their horrid ways,' till, upon my word, she made me quite uncomfortable. I ventured to hint that the Company was run for profit. "`You forget, dear Charlie, that the laborer is worthy of his hire,' she said, brightly. It's queer how out of touch with truth women are. They live in a world of their own, and there had never been anything like it, and never can be. It is too beautiful altogether, and if they were to set it up it would go to pieces before the first sunset. Some confounded fact we men have been living contentedly with ever since the day of creation would start up and knock the whole thing over. "After this I got embraced, told to wear flannel, be sure to write often, and so on--and I left. In the street--I don't know why--a queer feeling came to me that I was an impostor. Odd thing that I, who used to clear out for any part of the world at twenty-four hours' notice, with less thought than most men give to the crossing of a street, had a moment--I won't say of hesitation, but of startled pause, before this commonplace affair. The best way I can explain it to you is by

French apostle: apôtre. brightly: de manière claire, de façon claire. commonplace: banal, trivial. confounded: confondu. contentedly: de manière satisfaite, de façon satisfaite. dignitary: dignitaire. embraced: embrassé. emissary: émissaire. fireside: coin du feu. flannel: flanelle.

gifted: doué, surdoué. heavens: cieux. hesitation: hésitation. horrid: horrible. humbug: fumisterie. ignorant: ignorant. impostor: imposteur. laborer: ouvrier, travailleur. queer: bizarre. rot: pourrir, pourrissent, pourrissez, pourris, pourrissons, pourriture. soothingly: de manière lénitive, de

façon lénitive. startled: effarouché, effarouchâmes, surprîtes, effarouchas, effarouchâtes, effarouchèrent, surprîmes, surprit, alarmèrent, surprirent, alarmé. sunset: coucher du soleil. triumphant: triomphant, triomphal. tropics: tropiques. uncomfortable: inconfortable. ventured: osé. whistle: siffler, sifflet, sifflement, coup de sifflet, siffloter.

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saying that, for a second or two, I felt as though, instead of going to the center of a continent, I were about to set off for the center of the earth. "I %left in a French steamer, and she called in every blamed port they have out there, for, as far as I could see, the sole purpose of landing soldiers and custom-house officers. I watched the coast. Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you-- smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, `Come and find out.' This one was almost featureless, as if still in the making, with an aspect of monotonous grimness. The edge of a colossal jungle, so dark-green as to be almost black, fringed with white surf, ran straight, like a ruled line, far, far away along a blue sea whose glitter was blurred by a creeping mist. The sun was fierce, the land seemed to glisten and drip with steam. Here and there grayish-whitish specks showed up, clustered inside the white surf, with a flag flying above them perhaps. Settlements some centuries old, and still no bigger than pin-heads on the untouched expanse of their background. We pounded along, stopped, landed soldiers; went on, landed custom-house clerks to levy toll in what looked like a God-forsaken wilderness, with a tin shed and a flag-pole lost in it; landed more soldiers--to take care of the custom-house clerks, presumably. Some, I heard, got drowned in the surf; but whether they did or not, nobody seemed particularly to care. They were just flung out there, and on we went. Every day the coast looked the same, as though we had not moved; but we passed various places--trading places--with names like Gran' Bassam Little Popo, names that seemed to belong to some sordid farce acted in front of a sinister backcloth. The idleness of a passenger, my isolation amongst all these men with whom I had no point of contact, the oily and languid sea, the uniform somberness of the coast, seemed to keep me away from the truth of things, within the toil of a mournful and senseless delusion. The voice of the surf heard now and then was a positive pleasure, like the speech of a brother. It was something natural, that had its reason, that had a meaning. Now and then a boat from the shore gave one a momentary contact with reality. It was paddled by black fellows. You could see from afar the white of their eyeballs glistening. They shouted, sang; their bodies streamed with perspiration; they had faces like

French blurred: flou, floué. clustered: en grappe, en grappes. colossal: énorme, immense, formidable. delusion: illusion. drip: goutte, dégoutter, tuyau de purge, tomber goutte à goutte, perfusion, goutter, exsudat, ruisseler. enigma: énigme, puzzle. expanse: étendue. farce: farce. featureless: anonyme, sans traits bien

marqués. glisten: étinceler. glistening: scintillant. glitter: briller, brillant, scintillement. idleness: oisiveté, désœuvrement. insipid: insipide, fade. languid: langoureux, languissant. momentary: momentané. monotonous: monotone. mute: muet, sourdine, commutateur de sourdine. oily: huileux, graisseux.

perspiration: transpiration, sueur, perspiration. pounded: martelé. senseless: insensé, déraisonnable, stupide, sans connaissance. slips: coins de retenue. sordid: sordide. specks: point noir, grains d'adhésif, taches. surf: ressac. toil: travailler dur, labeur. whispering: chuchotement.

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grotesque%masks--these chaps; but they had bone, muscle, a wild vitality, an intense energy of movement, that was as natural and true as the surf along their coast. They wanted no excuse for being there. They were a great comfort to look at. For a time I would feel I belonged still to a world of straightforward facts; but the feeling would not last long. Something would turn up to scare it away. Once, I remember, we came upon a man-of-war anchored off the coast. There wasn't even a shed there, and she was shelling the bush. It appears the French had one of their wars going on thereabouts. Her ensign dropped limp like a rag; the muzzles of the long eight-inch guns stuck out all over the low hull; the greasy, slimy swell swung her up lazily and let her down, swaying her thin masts. In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the eight-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech--and nothing happened. Nothing could happen. There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding, a sense of lugubrious drollery in the sight; and it was not dissipated by somebody on board assuring me earnestly there was a camp of natives--he called them enemies!-- hidden out of sight somewhere. "We gave her her letters (I heard the men in that lonely ship were dying of fever at the rate of three a day) and went on. We called at some more places with farcical names, where the merry dance of death and trade goes on in a still and earthy atmosphere as of an overheated catacomb; all along the formless coast bordered by dangerous surf, as if Nature herself had tried to ward off intruders; in and out of rivers, streams of death in life, whose banks were rotting into mud, whose waters, thickened into slime, invaded the contorted mangroves, that seemed to writhe at us in the extremity of an impotent despair. Nowhere did we stop long enough to get a particularized impression, but the general sense of vague and oppressive wonder grew upon me. It was like a weary pilgrimage amongst hints for nightmares. "It was upward of thirty days before I saw the mouth of the big river. We anchored off the seat of the government. But my work would not begin till some

French anchored: ancré. assuring: assurant, garantissant. bordered: bordé. catacomb: catacombe. contorted: tordu, tordirent, tordîtes, tordîmes, tordit, tordis. dissipated: dissipé. earnestly: sérieusement, de manière sérieuse, de façon sérieuse. earthy: terreux. ensign: pavillon. extremity: extrémité.

farcical: bouffon, farcesque. formless: informe. impotent: impuissant, impotent. lugubrious: lugubre. masts: mâts. muzzles: museaux. overheated: surchauffa, surchauffèrent, surchauffâtes, surchauffas, surchauffai, surchauffâmes, surchauffé. particularized: particularisâtes, particularisai, particularisèrent,

particularisé, particularisâmes, particularisa, particularisas. projectile: projectile. shelling: écaillage, bombardement. slime: limon, boue, vase, bourbe. slimy: visqueux, vaseux, limoneux. thereabouts: alentour, autour. thickened: grossîtes, grossi, grossîmes, grossirent, grossis, grossit, épaissi, épaissirent, épaissis, épaissit, épaissîtes. writhe: se débattre, se démener.

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two hundred miles farther on. So as soon as I could I made a start for a place thirty miles higher up. "I %had my passage on a little sea-going steamer. Her captain was a Swede, and knowing me for a seaman, invited me on the bridge. He was a young man, lean, fair, and morose, with lanky hair and a shuffling gait. As we left the miserable little wharf, he tossed his head contemptuously at the shore. `Been living there?' he asked. I said, `Yes.' `Fine lot these government chaps--are they not?' he went on, speaking English with great precision and considerable bitterness. `It is funny what some people will do for a few francs a month. I wonder what becomes of that kind when it goes up country?' I said to him I expected to see that soon. `So-o-o!' he exclaimed. He shuffled athwart, keeping one eye ahead vigilantly. `Don't be too sure,' he continued. `The other day I took up a man who hanged himself on the road. He was a Swede, too.' `Hanged himself! Why, in God's name?' I cried. He kept on looking out watchfully. `Who knows? The sun too much for him, or the country perhaps.' "At last we opened a reach. A rocky cliff appeared, mounds of turned-up earth by the shore, houses on a hill, others, with iron roofs, amongst a waste of excavations, or hanging to the declivity. A continuous noise of the rapids above hovered over this scene of inhabited devastation. A lot of people, mostly black and naked, moved about like ants. A jetty projected into the river. A blinding sunlight drowned all this at times in a sudden recrudescence of glare. `There's your Company's station,' said the Swede, pointing to three wooden barrack-like structures on the rocky slope. `I will send your things up. Four boxes did you say? So. Farewell.' "I came upon a boiler wallowing in the grass, then found a path leading up the hill. It turned aside for the bowlders, and also for an undersized railwaytruck lying there on its back with its wheels in the air. One was off. The thing looked as dead as the carcass of some animal. I came upon more pieces of decaying machinery, a stack of rusty rails. To the left a clump of trees made a shady spot, where dark things seemed to stir feebly. I blinked, the path was steep. A horn tooted to the right, and I saw the black people run. A heavy and

French athwart: en travers, en travers de. blinding: aveuglant, colmatage, éblouissant. blinked: clignoté. carcass: carcasse, gros œuvre. clump: bouquet, touffe. contemptuously: de manière méprisante, de façon méprisante. decaying: pourrir. declivity: déclivité. devastation: dévastation. feebly: de manière faible, de façon

faible. gait: démarche, allure, marche. hanged: pendu. hovered: planâtes, plana, planas, planèrent, planâmes, planai, plané. inhabited: habitas, habitâtes, habité, habitai, habitèrent, habita, habitâmes. jetty: jetée, débarcadère, embarcadère. lanky: dégingandé, grand et maigre. morose: morose. rapids: rapides. recrudescence: recrudescence.

rusty: rouillé. shady: ombreux, ombragé. shuffled: déramé. shuffling: réarrangement, entrelacement. undersized: dimension insuffisante, trop petit, immature. vigilantly: de manière vigilante, de façon vigilante. watchfully: de manière vigilante, de façon vigilante. wharf: quai, appontement.

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dull detonation shook the ground, a puff of smoke came out of the cliff, and that was all. No change appeared on the face of the rock. They were building a railway. The cliff was not in the way or anything; but this objectless blasting was all the work going on.% "A slight clinking behind me made me turn my head. Six black men advanced in a file, toiling up the path. They walked erect and slow, balancing small baskets full of earth on their heads, and the clink kept time with their footsteps. Black rags were wound round their loins, and the short ends behind wagged to and fro like tails. I could see every rib, the joints of their limbs were like knots in a rope; each had an iron collar on his neck, and all were connected together with a chain whose bights swung between them, rhythmically clinking. Another report from the cliff made me think suddenly of that ship of war I had seen firing into a continent. It was the same kind of ominous voice; but these men could by no stretch of imagination be called enemies. They were called criminals, and the outraged law, like the bursting shells, had come to them, an insoluble mystery from over the sea. All their meager breasts panted together, the violently dilated nostrils quivered, the eyes stared stonily uphill. They passed me within six inches, without a glance, with that complete, deathlike indifference of unhappy savages. Behind this raw matter one of the reclaimed, the product of the new forces at work, strolled despondently, carrying a rifle by its middle. He had a uniform jacket with one button off, and seeing a white man on the path, hoisted his weapon to his shoulder with alacrity. This was simple prudence, white men being so much alike at a distance that he could not tell who I might be. He was speedily reassured, and with a large, white, rascally grin, and a glance at his charge, seemed to take me into partnership in his exalted trust. After all, I also was a part of the great cause of these high and just proceedings. "Instead of going up, I turned and descended to the left. My idea was to let that chain-gang get out of sight before I climbed the hill. You know I am not particularly tender; I've had to strike and to fend off. I've had to resist and to attack sometimes--that's only one way of resisting-- without counting the exact

French alacrity: avidité, empressement, enthousiasme. baskets: paniers. blasting: décapage à l'abrasif, travail aux explosifs, minage, sautage. bursting: éclatement. clink: choquer, crique, tintement, fissure à chaud, faire tinter, tapure, tapure à chaud. despondently: de manière découragée, de façon découragée. detonation: détonation, explosion.

dilated: dilaté, dilata, dilatèrent, dilatâtes, dilatas, dilatai, dilatâmes. exalted: exalté. fend: défendre. insoluble: insoluble. loins: reins. meager: maigre, pauvre, misérable. nostrils: narines. outraged: outragé. panted: haleté. prudence: prudence, précaution. puff: bouffée, souffle.

rags: chiffons. reclaimed: régénérèrent, réclamèrent, réclamai, réclamâmes, réclamas, réclamâtes, régénéra, régénérai, régénérâmes, réclama, régénérâtes. rhythmically: de manière rythmique, de façon rythmique. rib: côte, nervure, membre. speedily: de manière rapide, de façon rapide, rapidement. stonily: de manière pierreuse. uphill: montant.

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cost, according to the demands of such sort of life as I had blundered into. I've seen the devil of violence, and the devil of greed, and the devil of hot desire; but, by all the stars! these were strong, lusty, red-eyed devils, that swayed and drove men--men, I tell you. But as I stood on this hillside, I foresaw that in the blinding sunshine of that land I would become acquainted with a flabby, pretending, weak-eyed devil of a rapacious and pitiless folly. How insidious he could be, too, I was only to find out several months later and a thousand miles farther. For a moment I stood appalled, as though by a warning. Finally I descended the hill, obliquely, towards the trees I had seen.% "I avoided a vast artificial hole somebody had been digging on the slope, the purpose of which I found it impossible to divine. It wasn't a quarry or a sandpit, anyhow. It was just a hole. It might have been connected with the philanthropic desire of giving the criminals something to do. I don't know. Then I nearly fell into a very narrow ravine, almost no more than a scar in the hillside. I discovered that a lot of imported drainage-pipes for the settlement had been tumbled in there. There wasn't one that was not broken. It was a wanton smashup. At last I got under the trees. My purpose was to stroll into the shade for a moment; but no sooner within than it seemed to me I had stepped into a gloomy circle of some Inferno. The rapids were near, and an uninterrupted, uniform, headlong, rushing noise filled the mournful stillness of the grove, where not a breath stirred, not a leaf moved, with a mysterious sound--as though the tearing pace of the launched earth had suddenly become audible. "Black shapes crouched, lay, sat between the trees, leaning against the trunks, clinging to the earth, half coming out, half effaced within the dim light, in all the attitudes of pain, abandonment, and despair. Another mine on the cliff went off, followed by a slight shudder of the soil under my feet. The work was going on. The work! And this was the place where some of the helpers had withdrawn to die. "They were dying slowly--it was very clear. They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now,-- nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation, lying confusedly in the greenish gloom. Brought from

French according: selon. acquainted: renseignai, informèrent, renseignâtes, renseigné, renseignâmes, renseignèrent, renseigna, informâtes, informas, informâmes, informai. audible: audible. blundered: embrouillai, embrouillées, embrouillâmes. confusedly: de manière confuse, de façon confuse. devils: diables.

earthly: terrestre. effaced: effacé, effaça, effaçai, effaçâmes, effaças, effaçâtes, effacèrent. flabby: flasque. foresaw: prévîtes, prévîmes, prévis, prévit, prévirent. greed: avidité, cupidité, avarice. greenish: verdâtre. headlong: la tête la première. insidious: insidieux. lusty: vigoureux.

obliquely: de manière oblique, de façon oblique. philanthropic: philanthropique. pitiless: impitoyable. rapacious: rapace. ravine: ravin, abîme, ravine. shudder: frémissement, frisson, frissonner. trunks: services aériens intercontinentaux. uninterrupted: ininterrompu. wanton: dévergondé.

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all the recesses of the coast in all the legality of time contracts, lost in uncongenial surroundings, fed on unfamiliar food, they sickened, became inefficient, and were then allowed to crawl away and rest. These moribund shapes were free as air--and nearly as thin. I began to distinguish the gleam of eyes under the trees. Then, glancing down, I saw a face near my hand. The black bones reclined at full length with one shoulder against the tree, and slowly the eyelids rose and the sunken eyes looked up at me, enormous and vacant, a kind of blind, white flicker in the depths of the orbs, which died out slowly. The man seemed young--almost a boy--but you know with them it's hard to tell. I found nothing else to do but to offer him one of my good Swede's ship's biscuits I had in my pocket. The fingers closed slowly on it and held--there was no other movement and no other glance. He had tied a bit of white worsted round his neck--Why? Where did he get it? Was it a badge--an ornament--a charm--a propitiatory act? Was there any idea at all connected with it? It looked startling round his black neck, this bit of white thread from beyond the seas.% "Near the same tree two more bundles of acute angles sat with their legs drawn up. One, with his chin propped on his knees, stared at nothing, in an intolerable and appalling manner: his brother phantom rested its forehead, as if overcome with a great weariness; and all about others were scattered in every pose of contorted collapse, as in some picture of a massacre or a pestilence. While I stood horror-struck, one of these creatures rose to his hands and knees, and went off on all-fours towards the river to drink. He lapped out of his hand, then sat up in the sunlight, crossing his shins in front of him, and after a time let his woolly head fall on his breastbone. "I didn't want any more loitering in the shade, and I made haste towards the station. When near the buildings I met a white man, in such an unexpected elegance of get-up that in the first moment I took him for a sort of vision. I saw a high starched collar, white cuffs, a light alpaca jacket, snowy trousers, a clear necktie, and varnished boots. No hat. Hair parted, brushed, oiled, under a green-lined parasol held in a big white hand. He was amazing, and had a penholder behind his ear.

French alpaca: alpaga. breastbone: bréchet, sternum. bundles: paquets. crawl: ramper, crawl. elegance: élégance. eyelids: paupières. flicker: papillotement, scintiller, scintillement, flicker, clignotement, oscillation, scintillation. gleam: lueur, luire. haste: hâte. inefficient: inefficace.

intolerable: intolérable. lapped: chevauchant. legality: légalité. loitering: flânant. massacre: massacrer, massacre. moribund: moribond. necktie: cravate. oiled: huilé. parasol: parasol. pestilence: peste. phantom: fantôme, apparition. propitiatory: propitiatoire.

reclined: reposas, reposâtes, reposèrent, reposa, reposâmes, reposai, reposé. sickened: écoeuras, écoeurâtes, écoeurâmes, écoeura, écoeurèrent, écoeurai, écoeuré. snowy: neigeux. startling: surprenant. uncongenial: antipathique. weariness: lassitude, fatigue. woolly: laineux. worsted: peigné.

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"I shook hands with this miracle, and I learned he was the Company's chief accountant, and that all the bookkeeping was done at this station. He had come out for a moment, he said, `to get a breath of fresh air.' The expression sounded wonderfully odd, with its suggestion of sedentary desk-life. I wouldn't have mentioned the fellow to you at all, only it was from his lips that I first heard the name of the man who is so indissolubly connected with the memories of that time. Moreover, I respected the fellow. Yes; I respected his collars, his vast cuffs, his brushed hair. His appearance was certainly that of a hairdresser's dummy; but in the great demoralization of the land he kept up his appearance. That's backbone. His starched collars and got-up shirt-fronts were achievements of character. He had been out nearly three years; and, later on, I could not help asking him how he managed to sport such linen. He had just the faintest blush, and said modestly, `I've been teaching one of the native women about the station. It was difficult. She had a distaste for the work.' This man had verily accomplished something. And he was devoted to his books, which were in apple-pie order.% "Everything else in the station was in a muddle,--heads, things, buildings. Strings of dusty niggers with splay feet arrived and departed; a stream of manufactured goods, rubbishy cottons, beads, and brass-wire set into the depths of darkness, and in return came a precious trickle of ivory. "I had to wait in the station for ten days--an eternity. I lived in a hut in the yard, but to be out of the chaos I would sometimes get into the accountant's office. It was built of horizontal planks, and so badly put together that, as he bent over his high desk, he was barred from neck to heels with narrow strips of sunlight. There was no need to open the big shutter to see. It was hot there too; big flies buzzed fiendishly, and did not sting, but stabbed. I sat generally on the floor, while, of faultless appearance (and even slightly scented), perching on a high stool, he wrote, he wrote. Sometimes he stood up for exercise. When a truckle-bed with a sick man (some invalided agent from up-country) was put in there, he exhibited a gentle annoyance. `The groans of this sick person,' he said,

French annoyance: contrariété, désolation, peine, ennui. backbone: épine dorsale, dorsale, réseau fédérateur, colonne vertébrale. barred: barré, barrèrent, barrâtes, barras, barrai, barra, barrâmes. blush: rougir, rougeur. bookkeeping: comptabilité. buzzed: bourdonné. collars: cols. demoralization: découragement, démoralisation.

distaste: dégoût. dummy: factice, faux, mannequin, aspirateur, soucette, tétine, sucette, maquette. eternity: éternité. faultless: impeccable, irréprochable, parfait. fiendishly: de manière diabolique, de façon diabolique. groans: gémissements. indissolubly: de manière indissoluble, de façon indissoluble.

modestly: modestement, de manière modeste, de façon modeste. perching: visitage à la perche, inspection à la perche. rubbishy: de pacotille. shutter: obturateur, volet. splay: ébrasement, évasement, ébraser, tourner en dehors, ouverture de l'évasement, rétrécis. trickle: dégouliner, tomber goutte à goutte, filet, filet ruisseler. verily: vraiment, en vérité.

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distract my attention. And without that it is extremely difficult to guard against clerical errors in this climate.' "One day he remarked, without lifting his head, `In the interior you will no doubt meet Mr. Kurtz.' On my asking who Mr. Kurtz was, he said he was a firstclass agent; and seeing my disappointment at this information, he added slowly, laying down his pen, `He is a very remarkable person.' Further questions elicited from him that Mr. Kurtz was at present in charge of a trading post, a very important one, in the true ivory-country, at `the very bottom of there. Sends in as much ivory as all the others put together. . . .' He began to write again. The sick man was too ill to groan. The flies buzzed in a great peace.% "Suddenly there was a growing murmur of voices and a great tramping of feet. A caravan had come in. A violent babble of uncouth sounds burst out on the other side of the planks. All the carriers were speaking together, and in the midst of the uproar the lamentable voice of the chief agent was heard `giving it up' tearfully for the twentieth time that day. . . . He rose slowly. `What a frightful row,' he said. He crossed the room gently to look at the sick man, and returning, said to me, `He does not hear.' `What! Dead?' I asked, startled. `No, not yet,' he answered, with great composure. Then, alluding with a toss of the head to the tumult in the station-yard, `When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages-- hate them to the death.' He remained thoughtful for a moment. `When you see Mr. Kurtz,' he went on, `tell him from me that everything here'--he glanced at the desk--'is very satisfactory. I don't like to write to him--with those messengers of ours you never know who may get hold of your letter--at that Central Station.' He stared at me for a moment with his mild, bulging eyes. `Oh, he will go far, very far,' he began again. `He will be a somebody in the Administration before long. They, above--the Council in Europe, you know--mean him to be.' "He turned to his work. The noise outside had ceased, and presently in going out I stopped at the door. In the steady buzz of flies the homeward-bound agent was lying flushed and insensible; the other, bent over his books, was

French alluding: insinuant. babble: murmure confus, bavarder, babiller. bulging: gonflage, gonflement. buzz: bourdonnement, bourdonner, ronronner, crachement, vrombir, vrombissement. caravan: caravane, roulotte. clerical: clérical. composure: repos. distract: distraire, distrayez, distrais, distrayons, distraient.

elicited: provoqué, provoquèrent, provoqua, provoquai, provoquâmes, provoquas, provoquâtes. frightful: affreux, épouvantable, effroyable. groan: gémir, gémissement, geindre. insensible: insensible. ivory: ivoire. lamentable: déplorable. midst: milieu, millieux. murmur: murmure, murmurer, bruit. presently: actuellement.

sends: envoie, adresse. station-yard: verge-station. tearfully: de manière éploré, de façon éplorée. thoughtful: pensif, réfléchi. toss: lancement, tirage au sort. tramping: transport maritime à la demande. tumult: barouf, baroufle, bagarre, tumulte. uncouth: grossier. uproar: tumulte, vacarme, tapage.

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making correct entries of perfectly correct transactions; and fifty feet below the doorstep I could see the still tree-tops of the grove of death. "Next day I left that station at last, with a caravan of sixty men, for a twohundred-mile tramp. "No %use telling you much about that. Paths, paths, everywhere; a stampedin network of paths spreading over the empty land, through long grass, through burnt grass, through thickets, down and up chilly ravines, up and down stony hills ablaze with heat; and a solitude, a solitude, nobody, not a hut. The population had cleared out a long time ago. Well, if a lot of mysterious niggers armed with all kinds of fearful weapons suddenly took to traveling on the road between Deal and Gravesend, catching the yokels right and left to carry heavy loads for them, I fancy every farm and cottage thereabouts would get empty very soon. Only here the dwellings were gone too. Still I passed through several abandoned villages. There's something pathetically childish in the ruins of grass walls. Day after day, with the stamp and shuffle of sixty pair of bare feet behind me, each pair under a 60-lb. load. Camp, cook, sleep, strike camp, march. Now and then a carrier dead in harness, at rest in the long grass near the path, with an empty water-gourd and his long staff lying by his side. A great silence around and above. Perhaps on some quiet night the tremor of far-off drums, sinking, swelling, a tremor vast, faint; a sound weird, appealing, suggestive, and wild-and perhaps with as profound a meaning as the sound of bells in a Christian country. Once a white man in an unbuttoned uniform, camping on the path with an armed escort of lank Zanzibaris, very hospitable and festive-- not to say drunk. Was looking after the upkeep of the road, he declared. Can't say I saw any road or any upkeep, unless the body of a middle-aged negro, with a bullethole in the forehead, upon which I absolutely stumbled three miles farther on, may be considered as a permanent improvement. I had a white companion too, not a bad chap, but rather too fleshy and with the exasperating habit of fainting on the hot hillsides, miles away from the least bit of shade and water. Annoying, you know, to hold your own coat like a parasol over a man's head while he is coming-to. I couldn't help asking him once what he meant by coming there at all.

French ablaze: ardant, en feu. camping: camping, campant. childish: enfantin, puéril. chilly: froid, frais, frileux, de manière froide, de façon froide. doorstep: seuil. drums: batterie. exasperating: exaspérant. fainting: évanouissement, syncope, défaillance, défaillant. fleshy: charnu. harness: harnais, atteler, aménager,

harnachement, capter, harnacher. hospitable: hospitalier. negro: nègre, noir. pathetically: de manière pathétique, de façon pathétique. ravines: ravins. shuffle: mélanger, mêler, retourner, traîner les pieds. sinking: affaissement, naufrage. solitude: solitude. stony: pierreux. stumbled: trébuché.

suggestive: suggestif. swelling: gonflement, enflure, tuméfaction, foisonnement, grosseur, renflement. tramp: clochard, tramp, vagabond. traveling: voyageant. tremor: tremblement. unbuttoned: déboutonnâmes, déboutonnèrent, déboutonné, déboutonnas, déboutonnai, déboutonna, déboutonnâtes. upkeep: entretien.

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`To make money, of course. What do you think?' he said, scornfully. Then he got fever, and had to be carried in a hammock slung under a pole. As he weighed sixteen stone I had no end of rows with the carriers. They jibbed, ran away, sneaked off with their loads in the night-- quite a mutiny. So, one evening, I made a speech in English with gestures, not one of which was lost to the sixty pairs %of eyes before me, and the next morning I started the hammock off in front all right. An hour afterwards I came upon the whole concern wrecked in a bush--man, hammock, groans, blankets, horrors. The heavy pole had skinned his poor nose. He was very anxious for me to kill somebody, but there wasn't the shadow of a carrier near. I remembered the old doctor,--'It would be interesting for science to watch the mental changes of individuals, on the spot.' I felt I was becoming scientifically interesting. However, all that is to no purpose. On the fifteenth day I came in sight of the big river again, and hobbled into the Central Station. It was on a back water surrounded by scrub and forest, with a pretty border of smelly mud on one side, and on the three others inclosed by a crazy fence of rushes. A neglected gap was all the gate it had, and the first glance at the place was enough to let you see the flabby devil was running that show. White men with long staves in their hands appeared languidly from amongst the buildings, strolling up to take a look at me, and then retired out of sight somewhere. One of them, a stout, excitable chap with black mustaches, informed me with great volubility and many digressions, as soon as I told him who I was, that my steamer was at the bottom of the river. I was thunderstruck. What, how, why? Oh, it was `all right.' The `manager himself' was there. All quite correct. `Everybody had behaved splendidly! splendidly!'--'you must,' he said in agitation, `go and see the general manager at once. He is waiting!' "I did not see the real significance of that wreck at once. I fancy I see it now, but I am not sure--not at all. Certainly the affair was too stupid--when I think of it--to be altogether natural. Still. . . . But at the moment it presented itself simply as a confounded nuisance. The steamer was sunk. They had started two days before in a sudden hurry up the river with the manager on board, in charge of some volunteer skipper, and before they had been out three hours they tore the

French agitation: agitation, bagarre, barouf, baroufle, brassage. behaved: comporté. blankets: couverture. excitable: excitable. fifteenth: quinzième. hammock: hamac. hobbled: ambleur, entravé. horrors: horreurs. languidly: de manière languissante, de façon languissante. mutiny: mutinerie, révolte, se mutiner,

se révolter, sédition. rushes: épreuves de tournage. scientifically: de manière scientifique, de façon scientifique, scientifiquement. scornfully: de manière dédaigneuse, de façon dédaigneuse. scrub: broussailles, frotter, maquis, scrub. skinned: décortiqué, écorché. smelly: malodorant. splendidly: de manière splendide, de

façon splendide. stout: corpulent, fort, gros, stout. strolling: ambulant, marche de santé. sunk: sombré, enfoncés, enfoncées, enfoncée, enfoncé. volubility: volubilité. volunteer: volontaire, bénévole. weighed: pesas, pesâtes, pesai, pesâmes, pesé, pesa, pesèrent. wreck: épave, naufrage, détruire, accident. wrecked: démoli, naufragé.

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bottom out of her on stones, and she sank near the south bank. I asked myself what I was to do there, now my boat was lost. As a matter of fact, I had plenty to do in fishing my command out of the river. I had to set about it the very next day. That, and the repairs when I brought the pieces to the station, took some months. "My %first interview with the manager was curious. He did not ask me to sit down after my twenty-mile walk that morning. He was commonplace in complexion, in features, in manners, and in voice. He was of middle size and of ordinary build. His eyes, of the usual blue, were perhaps remarkably cold, and he certainly could make his glance fall on one as trenchant and heavy as an ax. But even at these times the rest of his person seemed to disclaim the intention. Otherwise there was only an indefinable, faint expression of his lips, something stealthy--a smile--not a smile--I remember it, but I can't explain. It was unconscious, this smile was, though just after he had said something it got intensified for an instant. It came at the end of his speeches like a seal applied on the words to make the meaning of the commonest phrase appear absolutely inscrutable. He was a common trader, from his youth up employed in these parts-- nothing more. He was obeyed, yet he inspired neither love nor fear, nor even respect. He inspired uneasiness. That was it! Uneasiness. Not a definite mistrust--just uneasiness--nothing more. You have no idea how effective such a . . . a . . . faculty can be. He had no genius for organizing, for initiative, or for order even. That was evident in such things as the deplorable state of the station. He had no learning, and no intelligence. His position had come to him--why? Perhaps because he was never ill . . . He had served three terms of three years out there . . . Because triumphant health in the general rout of constitutions is a kind of power in itself. When he went home on leave he rioted on a large scale-pompously. Jack ashore--with a difference--in externals only. This one could gather from his casual talk. He originated nothing, he could keep the routine going--that's all. But he was great. He was great by this little thing that it was impossible to tell what could control such a man. He never gave that secret away. Perhaps there was nothing within him. Such a suspicion made one pause- for out there there were no external checks. Once when various tropical

French ax: hache. checks: chèques, enraye. deplorable: déplorable. disclaim: désavouer, désavouent, désavouez, désavouons, désavoue, désavoues. faculty: faculté. faint: faible, s'évanouir, défaillir. gather: rassembler, ramasser, recueillir, réunir, déduire, conclure, collectionner, assembler, fronce, amasser, récolter.

genius: génie. indefinable: indéfinissable. instant: instant, moment. intensified: intensifiâtes, intensifias, intensifia, intensifiâmes, intensifièrent, intensifiai, intensifié. manners: moeurs. obeyed: obéis, obéit, obéîtes, obéirent, obéi, obéîmes. organizing: organisant. originated: provinrent, provins, provint, provîntes, provînmes,

Provenu. repairs: réparations, répare. rout: creuser les blancs d'un cliché, débâcle, déroute, détourer, fraiser, mettre en déroute. seal: phoque, sceller, sceau, scellé, cachet, cacheter, plomber, joint, obturer. trenchant: tranchant. unconscious: inconscient, évanoui, sans connaissance. uneasiness: inquiétude, malaise.

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diseases had laid low almost every `agent' in the station, he was heard to say, `Men who come out here should have no entrails.' He sealed the utterance with that smile of his, as though it had been a door opening into a darkness he had in his keeping. You fancied you had seen things--but the seal was on. When annoyed at meal-times by the constant quarrels of the white men about precedence, he ordered an immense round table to be made, for which a special house had to be built. This was the station's mess-room. Where he sat was the first place--the rest were nowhere. One felt this to be his unalterable conviction. He was neither civil nor uncivil. He was quiet. He allowed his `boy'--an overfed young negro from the coast--to treat the white men, under his very eyes, with provoking insolence.% "He began to speak as soon as he saw me. I had been very long on the road. He could not wait. Had to start without me. The up-river stations had to be relieved. There had been so many delays already that he did not know who was dead and who was alive, and how they got on--and so on, and so on. He paid no attention to my explanations, and, playing with a stick of sealing-wax, repeated several times that the situation was `very grave, very grave.' There were rumors that a very important station was in jeopardy, and its chief, Mr. Kurtz, was ill. Hoped it was not true. Mr. Kurtz was . . . I felt weary and irritable. Hang Kurtz, I thought. I interrupted him by saying I had heard of Mr. Kurtz on the coast. `Ah! So they talk of him down there,' he murmured to himself. Then he began again, assuring me Mr. Kurtz was the best agent he had, an exceptional man, of the greatest importance to the Company; therefore I could understand his anxiety. He was, he said, `very, very uneasy.' Certainly he fidgeted on his chair a good deal, exclaimed, `Ah, Mr. Kurtz!' broke the stick of sealing-wax and seemed dumbfounded by the accident. Next thing he wanted to know `how long it would take to' . . . I interrupted him again. Being hungry, you know, and kept on my feet too, I was getting savage. `How could I tell,' I said. `I hadn't even seen the wreck yet-- some months, no doubt.' All this talk seemed to me so futile. `Some months,' he said. `Well, let us say three months before we can make a start. Yes. That ought to do the affair.' I flung out of his hut (he lived all alone in a clay hut with a sort of veranda) muttering to myself my opinion of

French annoyed: chagrinâmes, chagrinai, chagrinas, chagrinâtes, chagriné, chagrinèrent, chagrina, ennuyé, agacé, ennuyèrent, ennuyai. delays: retards, sursied. dumbfounded: abasourdi, éberlué, abasourdîmes, abasourdîtes, abasourdit, abasourdirent, abasourdis. exclaimed: exclamas, exclamâtes, exclamé, exclama, exclamai, exclamâmes, exclamèrent.

fancied: imaginaire. futile: vain, abortif. hut: hutte, cabane, chaumière, baraque. interrupted: interrompit, interrompu, interrompue. irritable: irritable. jeopardy: danger, péril. muttering: barbotant. overfed: suralimentâtes, suralimentèrent, suralimentas, suralimentâmes, suralimentai,

suralimenta, suralimenté. precedence: priorité, préséance. provoking: provoquant. quarrels: querelles. savage: sauvage. sealed: scellé, étanche, hermétique, fermé. unalterable: immuable. uncivil: incivil. utterance: déclaration, expression. veranda: véranda. weary: las, fatigué.

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him. He was a chattering idiot. Afterwards I took it back when it was borne in upon me startlingly with what extreme nicety he had estimated the time requisite for the `affair.' "I went to work the next day, turning, so to speak, my back on that station. In that way only it seemed to me I could keep my hold on the redeeming facts of life. Still, one must look about sometimes; and then I saw this station, these men strolling aimlessly about in the sunshine of the yard. I asked myself sometimes what it all meant. They wandered here and there with their absurd long staves in their hands, like a lot of faithless pilgrims bewitched inside a rotten fence. The word `ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse. By Jove! I've never seen anything so unreal in my life. And outside, the silent wilderness surrounding this cleared speck on the earth struck me as something great and invincible, like evil or truth, waiting patiently for the passing away of this fantastic invasion.% "Oh, these months! Well, never mind. Various things happened. One evening a grass shed full of calico, cotton prints, beads, and I don't know what else, burst into a blaze so suddenly that you would have thought the earth had opened to let an avenging fire consume all that trash. I was smoking my pipe quietly by my dismantled steamer, and saw them all cutting capers in the light, with their arms lifted high, when the stout man with mustaches came tearing down to the river, a tin pail in his hand, assured me that everybody was `behaving splendidly, splendidly,' dipped about a quart of water and tore back again. I noticed there was a hole in the bottom of his pail. "I strolled up. There was no hurry. You see the thing had gone off like a box of matches. It had been hopeless from the very first. The flame had leaped high, driven everybody back, lighted up everything-- and collapsed. The shed was already a heap of embers glowing fiercely. A nigger was being beaten near by. They said he had caused the fire in some way; be that as it may, he was screeching most horribly. I saw him, later on, for several days, sitting in a bit of shade looking very sick and trying to recover himself: afterwards he arose and

French aimlessly: sans but. avenging: vengeant. bewitched: ensorcelâtes, ensorcelas, ensorcela, ensorcelèrent, ensorcelé, ensorcelâmes, ensorcelai. calico: calicot. capers: câpres. chattering: cliquetis, claquement, bavarder, broutage. dismantled: démonté, démantelâmes, démantelai, démantelé, démantelèrent, démantela,

démantelas, démontèrent, démontâtes, démontas, démontâmes. embers: braise. faithless: infidèle. imbecile: imbécile. invincible: invincible. leaped: sauté. lighted: allumé. nicety: exactitude. pail: seau. pilgrims: pèlerins. quart: litre, pinte, quart, grande

bouteille. rapacity: rapacité. redeeming: rachetant. requisite: requis, condition requise. screeching: cris perçants. startlingly: de façon surprenante, de manière surprenante. taint: infection, entacher. trash: camelote. whiff: coup de vent, loupent, loupons, loupes, loupe, loupez, louper, bouffée.

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went out-- and the wilderness without a sound took him into its bosom again. As I approached the glow from the dark I found myself at the back of two men, talking. I heard the name of Kurtz pronounced, then the words, `take advantage of %this unfortunate accident.' One of the men was the manager. I wished him a good evening. `Did you ever see anything like it-- eh? it is incredible,' he said, and walked off. The other man remained. He was a first-class agent, young, gentlemanly, a bit reserved, with a forked little beard and a hooked nose. He was stand-offish with the other agents, and they on their side said he was the manager's spy upon them. As to me, I had hardly ever spoken to him before. We got into talk, and by-and-by we strolled away from the hissing ruins. Then he asked me to his room, which was in the main building of the station. He struck a match, and I perceived that this young aristocrat had not only a silver-mounted dressing-case but also a whole candle all to himself. Just at that time the manager was the only man supposed to have any right to candles. Native mats covered the clay walls; a collection of spears, assegais, shields, knives was hung up in trophies. The business intrusted to this fellow was the making of bricks-- so I had been informed; but there wasn't a fragment of a brick anywhere in the station, and he had been there more than a year--waiting. It seems he could not make bricks without something, I don't know what--straw maybe. Anyways, it could not be found there, and as it was not likely to be sent from Europe, it did not appear clear to me what he was waiting for. An act of special creation perhaps. However, they were all waiting-- all the sixteen or twenty pilgrims of them--for something; and upon my word it did not seem an uncongenial occupation, from the way they took it, though the only thing that ever came to them was disease-- as far as I could see. They beguiled the time by backbiting and intriguing against each other in a foolish kind of way. There was an air of plotting about that station, but nothing came of it, of course. It was as unreal as everything else--as the philanthropic pretense of the whole concern, as their talk, as their government, as their show of work. The only real feeling was a desire to get appointed to a trading-post where ivory was to be had, so that they could earn percentages. They intrigued and slandered and hated each other only on that account,-- but as to effectually lifting a little finger--oh, no. By heavens!

French aristocrat: aristocrate, aristo. backbiting: médisant. beard: barbe. beguiled: enjôlâmes, séduisit, séduisîtes, enjôlâtes, séduisirent, enjôlas, séduisîmes, enjôla, enjôlé, enjôlai, séduisis. bosom: sein, poitrine. bricks: briques. candle: bougie, chandelle, cierge. effectually: de manière efficace, de façon efficace.

foolish: sot, idiot, stupide, abracadabrant, insensé. forked: fourchu. fragment: fragment. gentlemanly: distingué, bien élevé. glow: ardeur, incandescence, brûler, être en feu, lueur. hissing: sifflement, sifflant, siffler. hooked: accroché, crochu. intrigued: intrigué. intriguing: intriguer, intriguant. knives: couteaux.

percentages: pourcentages. plotting: traçage, traçant, levé. pronounced: prononças, prononçâtes, prononçai, prononcèrent, prononçâmes, prononça, prononcé. reserved: réservé, réservée. ruins: ruine, ruines. slandered: médites, médis, médit, médite, médits. spy: espion, épier. unfortunate: malheureux. unreal: irréel.

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there is something after all in the world allowing one man to steal a horse while another must not look at a halter. Steal a horse straight out. Very well. He has done it. Perhaps he can ride. But there is a way of looking at a halter that would provoke the most charitable of saints into a kick.% "I had no idea why he wanted to be sociable, but as we chatted in there it suddenly occurred to me the fellow was trying to get at something-- in fact, pumping me. He alluded constantly to Europe, to the people I was supposed to know there--putting leading questions as to my acquaintances in the sepulchral city, and so on. His little eyes glittered like mica discs-- with curiosity,--though he tried to keep up a bit of superciliousness. At first I was astonished, but very soon I became awfully curious to see what he would find out from me. I couldn't possibly imagine what I had in me to make it worth his while. It was very pretty to see how he baffled himself, for in truth my body was full of chills, and my head had nothing in it but that wretched steamboat business. It was evident he took me for a perfectly shameless prevaricator. At last he got angry, and to conceal a movement of furious annoyance, he yawned. I rose. Then I noticed a small sketch in oils, on a panel, representing a woman, draped and blindfolded, carrying a lighted torch. The background was somber--almost black. The movement of the woman was stately, and the effect of the torchlight on the face was sinister. "It arrested me, and he stood by civilly, holding a half-pint champagne bottle (medical comforts) with the candle stuck in it. To my question he said Mr. Kurtz had painted this--in this very station more than a year ago-- while waiting for means to go to his trading-post. `Tell me, pray,' said I, `who is this Mr. Kurtz?' "`The chief of the Inner Station,' he answered in a short tone, looking away. `Much obliged,' I said, laughing. `And you are the brickmaker of the Central Station. Everyone knows that.' He was silent for a while. `He is a prodigy,' he said at last. `He is an emissary of pity, and science, and progress, and devil knows what else. We want,' he began to declaim suddenly, `for the guidance of the cause intrusted to us by Europe, so to speak, higher intelligence, wide sympathies, a singleness of purpose.' `Who says that?' I asked. `Lots of them,' he

French acquaintances: connaissances. alluded: insinua, insinuèrent, insinué, insinuâtes, insinuas, insinuâmes, insinuai. astonished: étonné, étonnâmes, étonnas, étonnâtes, étonnèrent, étonna, étonnai. awfully: terriblement, affreusement, de manière horrible, de façon horrible. chills: frissons. civilly: de façon civile, de manière

civile, civilement. conceal: cacher, cachons, cachez, cachent, caches, cache, dissimuler, dissimulons, dissimulez, dissimule, dissimulent. declaim: déclamer. draped: drapé, drapâmes, drapai, drapèrent, drapa, drapas, drapâtes. halter: licol. mica: mica. provoke: provoquer, provoque, provoques, provoquons, provoquez,

provoquent, irriter, agacer. pumping: pompage, pompant. sepulchral: sépulcral. shameless: effronté, éhonté, impudent. sketch: esquisse, croquis, esquisser, ébauche. sociable: sociable. stately: imposant. superciliousness: hauteur. wretched: misérable, pauvre, infortuné, pitoyable, malheureux.

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replied. `Some even write that; and so HE comes here, a special being, as you ought to know.' `Why ought I to know?' I interrupted, really surprised. He paid no %attention. `Yes. To-day he is chief of the best station, next year he will be assistant-manager, two years more and . . . but I dare say you know what he will be in two years' time. You are of the new gang--the gang of virtue. The same people who sent him specially also recommended you. Oh, don't say no. I've my own eyes to trust.' Light dawned upon me. My dear aunt's influential acquaintances were producing an unexpected effect upon that young man. I nearly burst into a laugh. `Do you read the Company's confidential correspondence?' I asked. He hadn't a word to say. It was great fun. `When Mr. Kurtz,' I continued severely, `is General Manager, you won't have the opportunity.' "He blew the candle out suddenly, and we went outside. The moon had risen. Black figures strolled about listlessly, pouring water on the glow, whence proceeded a sound of hissing; steam ascended in the moonlight, the beaten nigger groaned somewhere. `What a row the brute makes!' said the indefatigable man with the mustaches, appearing near us. `Serve him right. Transgression--punishment--bang! Pitiless, pitiless. That's the only way. This will prevent all conflagrations for the future. I was just telling the manager . . .' He noticed my companion, and became crestfallen all at once. `Not in bed yet,' he said, with a kind of servile heartiness; `it's so natural. Ha! Danger--agitation.' He vanished. I went on to the river-side, and the other followed me. I heard a scathing murmur at my ear, `Heap of muffs--go to.' The pilgrims could be seen in knots gesticulating, discussing. Several had still their staves in their hands. I verily believe they took these sticks to bed with them. Beyond the fence the forest stood up spectrally in the moonlight, and through the dim stir, through the faint sounds of that lamentable courtyard, the silence of the land went home to one's very heart,--its mystery, its greatness, the amazing reality of its concealed life. The hurt nigger moaned feebly somewhere near by, and then fetched a deep sigh that made me mend my pace away from there. I felt a hand introducing itself under my arm. `My dear sir,' said the fellow, `I don't want to be misunderstood, and especially by you, who will see Mr. Kurtz long before I

French ascended: monta, montâmes, montai, montas, montâtes, montèrent, monté. concealed: caché, cachâmes, cachai, cacha, cachèrent, cachas, cachâtes, dissimulé, dissimulas, dissimula, dissimulèrent. confidential: confidentiel. courtyard: cour. crestfallen: déçu, déconfit, découragé. fetched: amenèrent, amena, apportas, amené, amenâtes, amenas, amenâmes, amenai, apportâtes,

apporté, apportai. gesticulating: gesticulant. heartiness: cordialité. indefatigable: infatigable. knots: nœuds. listlessly: de manière indifférente, de façon indifférente. misunderstood: incompris, mal compris. moaned: gémies, gémi, bêlèrent, bêlé, bêlai, gémie, bêlés, bêla. moonlight: clair de lune.

pouring: coulage, coulée, versant. proceeded: procédas, procédâtes, procédâmes, procédèrent, procédai, procéda, procédé, avançâtes, avancé, avançâmes, avançai. river-side: rive. scathing: acerbe, caustique. servile: aplaventriste, servile. spectrally: de manière spectrale, de façon spectrale. sticks: bûches, en bâtons. whence: d'où.

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can have that pleasure. I wouldn't like him to get a false idea of my disposition. . . .' "I %let him run on, this papier-mache Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe. He, don't you see, had been planning to be assistant-manager by-and-by under the present man, and I could see that the coming of that Kurtz had upset them both not a little. He talked precipitately, and I did not try to stop him. I had my shoulders against the wreck of my steamer, hauled up on the slope like a carcass of some big river animal. The smell of mud, of primeval mud, by Jove! was in my nostrils, the high stillness of primeval forest was before my eyes; there were shiny patches on the black creek. The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver-- over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation standing higher than the wall of a temple, over the great river I could see through a somber gap glittering, glittering, as it flowed broadly by without a murmur. All this was great, expectant, mute, while the man jabbered about himself. I wondered whether the stillness on the face of the immensity looking at us two were meant as an appeal or as a menace. What were we who had strayed in here? Could we handle that dumb thing, or would it handle us? I felt how big, how confoundedly big, was that thing that couldn't talk, and perhaps was deaf as well. What was in there? I could see a little ivory coming out from there, and I had heard Mr. Kurtz was in there. I had heard enough about it too-- God knows! Yet somehow it didn't bring any image with it-- no more than if I had been told an angel or a fiend was in there. I believed it in the same way one of you might believe there are inhabitants in the planet Mars. I knew once a Scotch sailmaker who was certain, dead sure, there were people in Mars. If you asked him for some idea how they looked and behaved, he would get shy and mutter something about `walking on all-fours.' If you as much as smiled, he would--though a man of sixty-- offer to fight you. I would not have gone so far as to fight for Kurtz, but I went for him near enough to a lie. You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appalls me. There is a taint of death, a flavor of mortality in lies,-- which is exactly what I hate and

French angel: ange. appalls: consterne. broadly: largement, de façon large, de manière large. confoundedly: de manière confondue, de façon confondue. creek: crique, ruisseau. detest: détester, détestons, détestent, détestez, déteste, détestes. dirt: saleté, boue, crasse. disposition: disposition, don, dispositif, aptitude, talent.

dumb: muet. fiend: démon. flavor: saveur, arôme, parfum, goût, flaveur. flowed: coulé. glittering: éclat, scintillant. hauled: transporté. inhabitants: habitants. matted: feutré, maté. menace: menacer, menace, gronder. mutter: murmurer, barboter, marmonner.

poke: écrire en mémoire vive, attiser, pousser, poussée, ringarder. primeval: primitif, primordial. shiny: brillant, luisant. shy: timide, ombrageux. slope: pente, côte, talus, inclinaison, déclivité, versant. stillness: tranquillité, calme. strayed: écartâmes, écartée, écarta, écartai, écartées. temple: temple, tempe. vegetation: végétation.

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detest in the world-- what I want to forget. It makes me miserable and sick, like biting something rotten would do. Temperament, I suppose. Well, I went near enough to it by letting the young fool there believe anything he liked to imagine as to my influence in Europe. I became in an instant as much of a pretense as the rest of the bewitched pilgrims. This simply because I had a notion it somehow would be of help to that Kurtz whom at the time I did not see--you understand. He was just a word for me. I did not see the man in the name any more than you do. Do you see him? Do you see the story? Do you see anything? It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams. . . ." He was silent for a while.% ". . . No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence,--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream--alone. . . ." He paused again as if reflecting, then added-"Of course in this you fellows see more than I could then. You see me, whom you know. . . ." It had become so pitch dark that we listeners could hardly see one another. For a long time already he, sitting apart, had been no more to us than a voice. There was not a word from anybody. The others might have been asleep, but I was awake. I listened, I listened on the watch for the sentence, for the word, that would give me the clew to the faint uneasiness inspired by this narrative that seemed to shape itself without human lips in the heavy night-air of the river. ". . . Yes--I let him run on," Marlow began again, "and think what he pleased about the powers that were behind me. I did! And there was nothing behind me! There was nothing but that wretched, old, mangled steamboat I was leaning against, while he talked fluently about `the necessity for every man to get on.'

French absurdity: absurdité. awake: éveillé, réveillé. bewilderment: confusion, égarement, ahurissement. biting: mordant, âpre, morsure. captured: capturé. clew: point d'écoute. commingling: mélange. convey: transmettre. epoch: époque. essence: essence. fluently: couramment, de manière

aisé, de façon aisée. fool: imbécile, sot, mystifier, idiot, duper, fou. incredible: incroyable, invraisemblable. inspired: inspiras, inspirâtes, inspira, inspirâmes, inspirèrent, inspirai, inspiré. leaning: penchant. letting: laissant, location. listeners: auditeurs. miserable: misérable, malheureux,

pauvre, maussade, vide, pénible, sombre, mauvais, méchant, mal. narrative: récit, relation, narratif. necessity: nécessité, besoin. penetrating: pénétrant. reflecting: reflétant, réfléchissant, renvoyant. revolt: révolte, se révolter. rotten: pourri, mauvais. struggling: luttant. subtle: subtil, fin. vain: vain, vaniteux, abortif, frivole.

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`And%when one comes out here, you conceive, it is not to gaze at the moon.' Mr. Kurtz was a `universal genius,' but even a genius would find it easier to work with `adequate tools--intelligent men.' He did not make bricks--why, there was a physical impossibility in the way--as I was well aware; and if he did secretarial work for the manager, it was because `no sensible man rejects wantonly the confidence of his superiors.' Did I see it? I saw it. What more did I want? What I really wanted was rivets, by heaven! Rivets. To get on with the work--to stop the hole. Rivets I wanted. There were cases of them down at the coast-- cases-piled up--burst--split! You kicked a loose rivet at every second step in that station yard on the hillside. Rivets had rolled into the grove of death. You could fill your pockets with rivets for the trouble of stooping down-- and there wasn't one rivet to be found where it was wanted. We had plates that would do, but nothing to fasten them with. And every week the messenger, a lone negro, letter-bag on shoulder and staff in hand, left our station for the coast. And several times a week a coast caravan came in with trade goods,-- ghastly glazed calico that made you shudder only to look at it, glass beads value about a penny a quart, confounded spotted cotton handkerchiefs. And no rivets. Three carriers could have brought all that was wanted to set that steamboat afloat. "He was becoming confidential now, but I fancy my unresponsive attitude must have exasperated him at last, for he judged it necessary to inform me he feared neither God nor devil, let alone any mere man. I said I could see that very well, but what I wanted was a certain quantity of rivets--and rivets were what really Mr. Kurtz wanted, if he had only known it. Now letters went to the coast every week. . . . `My dear sir,' he cried, `I write from dictation.' I demanded rivets. There was a way--for an intelligent man. He changed his manner; became very cold, and suddenly began to talk about a hippopotamus; wondered whether sleeping on board the steamer (I stuck to my salvage night and day) I wasn't disturbed. There was an old hippo that had the bad habit of getting out on the bank and roaming at night over the station grounds. The pilgrims used to turn out in a body and empty every rifle they could lay hands on at him. Some even had sat up o' nights for him. All this energy was wasted, though. `That animal has a charmed life,' he said; `but you can say this only of brutes in this

French afloat: à flot. beads: perle. conceive: concevoir, concevez, conçoivent, conçois, concevons. exasperated: exaspéras, exaspérâtes, exaspéré, exaspérèrent, exaspéra, exaspérai, exaspérâmes. fasten: attacher, attachons, attaches, attachez, attache, attachent, fixer, verrouiller, verrouille, verrouillez, verrouillons. ghastly: horrible, désagréable,

abominable, maussade, repoussant, odieux. glazed: glacé. grove: bosquet. handkerchiefs: mouchoirs. hillside: pente, côte. hippo: hippopotame. hippopotamus: hippopotame. impossibility: impossibilité. lone: solitaire, seul. messenger: messager, coursier, messagère.

rejects: rebute, rejette. rifle: fusil, carabine. rivet: rivet, riveter, river. roaming: itinérance, errant, rôdant. salvage: sauvetage, récupération, sauver, salut. stooping: dépilage, baisse, penché, perchage, mirage raccourcissant verticalement l'image. unresponsive: insensible. wantonly: de manière dévergondée, de façon dévergondée.

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country. No man--you apprehend me?--no man here bears a charmed life.' He stood there for a moment in the moonlight with his delicate hooked nose set a little askew, and his mica eyes glittering without a wink, then, with a curt Good night, he strode off. I could see he was disturbed and considerably puzzled, which made me feel more hopeful than I had been for days. It was a great comfort to turn from that chap to my influential friend, the battered, twisted, ruined, tin-pot steamboat. I clambered on board. She rang under my feet like an empty Huntley & Palmer biscuit-tin kicked along a gutter; she was nothing so solid in make, and rather less pretty in shape, but I had expended enough hard work on her to make me love her. No influential friend would have served me better. She had given me a chance to come out a bit--to find out what I could do. No, I don't like work. I had rather laze about and think of all the fine things that can be done. I don't like work--no man does-- but I like what is in the work,--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself, not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.% "I was not surprised to see somebody sitting aft, on the deck, with his legs dangling over the mud. You see I rather chummed with the few mechanics there were in that station, whom the other pilgrims naturally despised--on account of their imperfect manners, I suppose. This was the foreman--a boilermaker by trade--a good worker. He was a lank, bony, yellow-faced man, with big intense eyes. His aspect was worried, and his head was as bald as the palm of my hand; but his hair in falling seemed to have stuck to his chin, and had prospered in the new locality, for his beard hung down to his waist. He was a widower with six young children (he had left them in charge of a sister of his to come out there), and the passion of his life was pigeon-flying. He was an enthusiast and a connoisseur. He would rave about pigeons. After work hours he used sometimes to come over from his hut for a talk about his children and his pigeons; at work, when he had to crawl in the mud under the bottom of the steamboat, he would tie up that beard of his in a kind of white serviette he brought for the purpose. It had loops to go over his ears. In the evening he could

French apprehend: appréhender, appréhende, appréhendes, appréhendez, appréhendent, appréhendons. bald: chauve. battered: cabossé, battu, en pâte à frire. bears: ours. bony: osseux. clambered: grimpâmes, grimpèrent, grimpé, grimpas, grimpai, grimpa, grimpâtes. connoisseur: connaisseur.

curt: brusque. dangling: ballant, pendillant. enthusiast: passionné, enthousiaste. expended: dépensé, dépensa, dépensai, dépensâmes, dépensas, dépensâtes, dépensèrent. gutter: gouttière, caniveau, rigole, petits fonds, crochet de jante, dalot, logement de bavure, lézarde, blanc de fond, caniveau à buses, goulotte. hopeful: optimiste, plein d'espoir. imperfect: imparfait.

laze: paresser, fainéanter. locality: localité. loops: boucles. mechanics: mécanique. prospered: prospéras, prospérâtes, prospéré, prospérèrent, prospérai, prospérâmes, prospéra. rave: être fou, délirer. ruined: ruiné. widower: veuf. wink: clin d'oeil, clignement, faire un clin d'oeil.

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be%seen squatted on the bank rinsing that wrapper in the creek with great care, then spreading it solemnly on a bush to dry. "I slapped him on the back and shouted, `We shall have rivets!' He scrambled to his feet exclaiming `No! Rivets!' as though he couldn't believe his ears. Then in a low voice, `You . . . eh?' I don't know why we behaved like lunatics. I put my finger to the side of my nose and nodded mysteriously. `Good for you!' he cried, snapped his fingers above his head, lifting one foot. I tried a jig. We capered on the iron deck. A frightful clatter came out of that hulk, and the virgin forest on the other bank of the creek sent it back in a thundering roll upon the sleeping station. It must have made some of the pilgrims sit up in their hovels. A dark figure obscured the lighted doorway of the manager's hut, vanished, then, a second or so after, the doorway itself vanished too. We stopped, and the silence driven away by the stamping of our feet flowed back again from the recesses of the land. The great wall of vegetation, an exuberant and entangled mass of trunks, branches, leaves, boughs, festoons, motionless in the moonlight, was like a rioting invasion of soundless life, a rolling wave of plants, piled up, crested, ready to topple over the creek, to sweep every little man of us out of his little existence. And it moved not. A deadened burst of mighty splashes and snorts reached us from afar, as though an ichthyosaurus had been taking a bath of glitter in the great river. `After all,' said the boilermaker in a reasonable tone, `why shouldn't we get the rivets?' Why not, indeed! I did not know of any reason why we shouldn't. `They'll come in three weeks,' I said confidently. "But they didn't. Instead of rivets there came an invasion, an infliction, a visitation. It came in sections during the next three weeks, each section headed by a donkey carrying a white man in new clothes and tan shoes, bowing from that elevation right and left to the impressed pilgrims. A quarrelsome band of footsore sulky niggers trod on the heels of the donkeys; a lot of tents, campstools, tin boxes, white cases, brown bales would be shot down in the courtyard, and the air of mystery would deepen a little over the muddle of the station. Five such installments came, with their absurd air of disorderly flight with the loot of

French bowing: cintrage, déformation en arc, bombage. clatter: cliquetis. crested: huppé. deadened: amorti, amortîmes, amortîtes, amortit, amortis, amortirent. deepen: approfondir, approfondissez, approfondis, approfondissent, approfondissons. disorderly: désordonné. donkeys: ânes.

entangled: empêtré, empêtra, empêtrèrent, empêtrâtes, empêtras, empêtrâmes, empêtrai, entortillâtes, entortillèrent, entortilla, entortillai. exclaiming: exclamant. exuberant: exubérant. footsore: aux pieds endoloris. hulk: ponton. infliction: affliction. jig: gigue, gabarit. loot: butin, piller. quarrelsome: querelleur.

rinsing: rinçant, rinçage. soundless: insonore. splashes: éclabousse. sulky: boudeur, sulky. thundering: énorme, tonnerre, tonitruant. topple: basculer, bascule, renverse, tombez, tombes, tombent, tombe, tombons, renversons, renversent, basculons. visitation: visite. wrapper: banderole, bande, cape.

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innumerable outfit shops and provision stores, that, one would think, they were lugging, after a raid, into the wilderness for equitable division. It was an inextricable mess of things decent in themselves but that human folly made look like the spoils of thieving. "This devoted band called itself the Eldorado Exploring Expedition, and I believe they were sworn to secrecy. Their talk, however, was the talk of sordid buccaneers: it was reckless without hardihood, greedy without audacity, and cruel without courage; there was not an atom of foresight or of serious intention in the whole batch of them, and they did not seem aware these things are wanted for the work of the world. To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe. Who paid the expenses of the noble enterprise I don't know; but the uncle of our manager was leader of that lot.% "In exterior he resembled a butcher in a poor neighborhood, and his eyes had a look of sleepy cunning. He carried his fat paunch with ostentation on his short legs, and during the time his gang infested the station spoke to no one but his nephew. You could see these two roaming about all day long with their heads close together in an everlasting confab. "I had given up worrying myself about the rivets. One's capacity for that kind of folly is more limited than you would suppose. I said Hang!--and let things slide. I had plenty of time for meditation, and now and then I would give some thought to Kurtz. I wasn't very interested in him. No. Still, I was curious to see whether this man, who had come out equipped with moral ideas of some sort, would climb to the top after all, and how he would set about his work when there."

French atom: atome. audacity: audace. bowels: intestins. burglars: cambrioleurs. cunning: rusé, malin, astucieux, artificieux, ruse, sournois, rouerie. equitable: équitable. everlasting: éternel, perpétuel, permanent, interminable, infini, immortelle, inusable. exterior: extérieur, aspect, vue, spectacle.

foresight: prévoyance, préscience, guidon. greedy: avide, glouton, cupide, gourmand, goulu. inextricable: inextricable. infested: infestas, infestâtes, infestâmes, infestai, infesta, infestèrent, infesté. lugging: effort anormal, traînant. meditation: méditation. neighborhood: voisinage, quartier. ostentation: ostentation.

paunch: panse, ventre. reckless: insouciant, imprudent, téméraire. resembled: ressemblâtes, ressemblas, ressemblai, ressemblé, ressemblâmes, ressemblèrent, ressembla, rejoignit, rejoignîtes, rejoignîmes, rejoignirent. sleepy: somnolent. spoils: abîme. sworn: juré, jurées. thieving: volant, prise d'échantillon, fauche.

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"One evening as I was lying flat on the deck of my steamboat, I heard voices approaching--and there were the nephew and the uncle strolling along the bank. I laid my head on my arm again, and had nearly lost myself in a doze, when somebody said in my ear, as it were: `I am as harmless as a little child, but I don't like to be dictated to. Am I the manager--or am I not? I was ordered to send him there. It's incredible.' . . . I became aware that the two were standing on the shore alongside the forepart of the steamboat, just below my head. I did not move; it did not occur to me to move: I was sleepy. `It IS unpleasant,' grunted the uncle. `He has asked the Administration to be sent there,' said the other, `with the idea of showing what he could do; and I was instructed accordingly. Look at the influence that man must have. Is it not frightful?' They both agreed it was frightful, then made several bizarre remarks: `Make rain and fine weather-one man--the Council--by the nose'-- bits of absurd sentences that got the better of my drowsiness, so that I had pretty near the whole of my wits about me when the uncle said, `The climate may do away with this difficulty for you. Is he alone there?' `Yes,' answered the manager; `he sent his assistant down the river with a note to me in these terms: "Clear this poor devil out of the country, and don't bother sending more of that sort. I had rather be alone than have the kind of men you can dispose of with me." It was more than a year ago. Can you imagine such impudence!' `Anything since then?' asked the other, hoarsely. `Ivory,' jerked the nephew; `lots of it--prime sort--lots--most annoying, from him.' `And

French absurd: absurde, aberrant. accordingly: donc, en conséquence, par conséquent, ensuite. alongside: le long de, à côté de. annoying: chagrinant, agaçant, ennuyant, indignant, gênant, ennuyeux, embêtant. answered: répondue, répondis, répondu, répondus, répondues, répondit. assistant: adjoint, assistant, aide, auxiliaire.

bizarre: bizarre, singulier. bother: gêner, déranger, ennuyer, ennui, embêter. deck: pont. devil: diable. dictated: dicta, dictèrent, dictâmes, dictai, dicté, dictâtes, dictas. dispose: disposer, disposons, disposez, disposent, dispose, disposes. doze: sommeiller. drowsiness: somnolence.

ear: oreille, épi. hoarsely: de manière rauque, de façon rauque. instructed: instruisîmes, instruisîtes, instruisit, instruisis, instruisirent, instruit. nephew: neveu. remarks: remarque. sending: envoyant, adressant, envoi. sentences: phrases. shore: rive, bord, côte, rivage, accore, côte rivage, étançon, étayer, étai.

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with that?' questioned the heavy rumble. `Invoice,' was the reply fired out, so to speak. Then silence. They had been talking about Kurtz.% "I was broad awake by this time, but, lying perfectly at ease, remained still, having no inducement to change my position. `How did that ivory come all this way?' growled the elder man, who seemed very vexed. The other explained that it had come with a fleet of canoes in charge of an English half-caste clerk Kurtz had with him; that Kurtz had apparently intended to return himself, the station being by that time bare of goods and stores, but after coming three hundred miles, had suddenly decided to go back, which he started to do alone in a small dug-out with four paddlers, leaving the half-caste to continue down the river with the ivory. The two fellows there seemed astounded at anybody attempting such a thing. They were at a loss for an adequate motive. As to me, I seemed to see Kurtz for the first time. It was a distinct glimpse: the dug-out, four paddling savages, and the lone white man turning his back suddenly on the headquarters, on relief, on thoughts of home--perhaps; setting his face towards the depths of the wilderness, towards his empty and desolate station. I did not know the motive. Perhaps he was just simply a fine fellow who stuck to his work for its own sake. His name, you understand, had not been pronounced once. He was `that man.' The half-caste, who, as far as I could see, had conducted a difficult trip with great prudence and pluck, was invariably alluded to as `that scoundrel.' The `scoundrel' had reported that the `man' had been very ill--had recovered imperfectly. . . . The two below me moved away then a few paces, and strolled back and forth at some little distance. I heard: `Military post--doctor-two hundred miles--quite alone now-- unavoidable delays--nine months--no news--strange rumors.' They approached again, just as the manager was saying, `No one, as far as I know, unless a species of wandering trader-- a pestilential fellow, snapping ivory from the natives.' Who was it they were talking about now? I gathered in snatches that this was some man supposed to be in Kurtz's district, and of whom the manager did not approve. `We will not be free from unfair competition till one of these fellows is hanged for an example,' he said. `Certainly,' grunted the other; `get him hanged! Why not? Anything--anything can be done in this country. That's what I say; nobody here, you understand,

French approve: approuver, approuve, approuves, approuvez, approuvent, approuvons, donner son accord. astounded: confondu, étonné, confondîtes, confondîmes, stupéfiâmes, stupéfièrent, stupéfié, stupéfiâtes, confondis, stupéfias, confondirent. clerk: commis, greffier. desolate: désolé, sombre, morne. elder: sureau, aîné, ancien. fired: traité par pointes de feu.

glimpse: entrevoir. growled: grogné. imperfectly: imparfaitement, de manière imparfaite, de façon imparfaite. inducement: incitation, lieu, occasion. motive: motif, lieu, occasion, mobile, motivation. paddling: pelotage. pestilential: pestilentiel. pluck: cueillir, ramasser, plumer, courage, fressure.

questioned: questionna, questionnai, questionnés, questionnée, questionné. rumble: grondement, ronronnement. snapping: croquage par cisaillement. unavoidable: inévitable. vexed: chagrina, chagrinai, chagrinâmes, chagrinas, chagrinâtes, chagriné, chagrinèrent, vexé, vexâtes, vexas, vexèrent. wandering: errant, vaguant, vagabond, errance, nomade.

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HERE, %can endanger your position. And why? You stand the climate--you outlast them all. The danger is in Europe; but there before I left I took care to--' They moved off and whispered, then their voices rose again. `The extraordinary series of delays is not my fault. I did my possible.' The fat man sighed, `Very sad.' `And the pestiferous absurdity of his talk,' continued the other; `he bothered me enough when he was here. "Each station should be like a beacon on the road towards better things, a center for trade of course, but also for humanizing, improving, instructing." Conceive you--that ass! And he wants to be manager! No, it's--' Here he got choked by excessive indignation, and I lifted my head the least bit. I was surprised to see how near they were--right under me. I could have spat upon their hats. They were looking on the ground, absorbed in thought. The manager was switching his leg with a slender twig: his sagacious relative lifted his head. `You have been well since you came out this time?' he asked. The other gave a start. `Who? I? Oh! Like a charm--like a charm. But the rest--oh, my goodness! All sick. They die so quick, too, that I haven't the time to send them out of the country-- it's incredible!' `H'm. Just so,' grunted the uncle. `Ah! my boy, trust to this--I say, trust to this.' I saw him extend his short flipper of an arm for a gesture that took in the forest, the creek, the mud, the river,-- seemed to beckon with a dishonoring flourish before the sunlit face of the land a treacherous appeal to the lurking death, to the hidden evil, to the profound darkness of its heart. It was so startling that I leaped to my feet and looked back at the edge of the forest, as though I had expected an answer of some sort to that black display of confidence. You know the foolish notions that come to one sometimes. The high stillness confronted these two figures with its ominous patience, waiting for the passing away of a fantastic invasion. "They swore aloud together--out of sheer fright, I believe--then pretending not to know anything of my existence, turned back to the station. The sun was low; and leaning forward side by side, they seemed to be tugging painfully uphill their two ridiculous shadows of unequal length, that trailed behind them slowly over the tall grass without bending a single blade.

French aloud: à haute voix. ass: âne, baudet, cul. beacon: balise, phare, radiophare, signal. bending: courbure, flexion, cintrage, pliage. choked: étouffé. dishonoring: déshonorant. endanger: compromettre, mettre en danger. flipper: nageoire. flourish: prospérer, prospèrent,

prospérons, prospères, prospérez, prospère. fright: peur, effroi, anxiété, frayeur, terreur. humanizing: humanisant. indignation: indignation. lurking: badaudage. notions: mercerie. painfully: de manière pénible, de façon pénible, péniblement. pretending: feignant, prétextant, prétendant.

sagacious: intelligent, sensé, raisonnable. slender: mince, svelte, maigre. spat: naissain. sunlit: ensoleillé. switching: commutation. swore: jurâtes, juras, jurâmes, jurèrent, jura, jurai. trailed: traîné. treacherous: traître, déloyal. twig: rameau, brindille. unequal: inégal.

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"In a few days the Eldorado Expedition went into the patient wilderness, that closed upon it as the sea closes over a diver. Long afterwards the news came that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals. They, no doubt, like the rest of us, found what they deserved. I did not inquire. I was then rather excited at the prospect of meeting Kurtz very soon. When I say very soon I mean it comparatively. It was just two months from the day we left the creek when we came to the bank below Kurtz's station.% "Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings. An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish. There was no joy in the brilliance of sunshine. The long stretches of the waterway ran on, deserted, into the gloom of overshadowed distances. On silvery sandbanks hippos and alligators sunned themselves side by side. The broadening waters flowed through a mob of wooded islands; you lost your way on that river as you would in a desert, and butted all day long against shoals, trying to find the channel, till you thought yourself bewitched and cut off for ever from everything you had known once--somewhere--far away--in another existence perhaps. There were moments when one's past came back to one, as it will sometimes when you have not a moment to spare to yourself; but it came in the shape of an unrestful and noisy dream, remembered with wonder amongst the overwhelming realities of this strange world of plants, and water, and silence. And this stillness of life did not in the least resemble a peace. It was the stillness of an implacable force brooding over an inscrutable intention. It looked at you with a vengeful aspect. I got used to it afterwards; I did not see it any more; I had no time. I had to keep guessing at the channel; I had to discern, mostly by inspiration, the signs of hidden banks; I watched for sunken stones; I was learning to clap my teeth smartly before my heart flew out, when I shaved by a fluke some infernal sly old snag that would have ripped the life out of the tin-pot steamboat and drowned all the pilgrims; I had to keep a look-out for the signs of dead wood we could cut up in the night for next day's steaming. When you have to attend to things of that sort, to the mere incidents of the surface, the reality--the reality, I tell you--fades. The inner truth is hidden--

French alligators: alligators. broadening: élargissant. butted: renforts latéraux. clap: claquer, applaudir, applaudissement. discern: discerner. diver: plongeur, scaphandrier. fluke: patte d'ancre, douve, flet. guessing: devinant. impenetrable: impénétrable, imperméable. implacable: implacable.

infernal: infernal. inquire: enquérir, demander, nous enquérons, vous enquérez, s'enquièrent, m'enquiers, enquérezvous, t'enquiers, se renseigner. overshadowed: éclipsas, ombrageâtes, ombrageas, ombrageâmes, ombrageai, ombragea, ombragé, éclipsâtes, ombragèrent, éclipsâmes, éclipsai. shaved: rasé. shoals: bancs.

silvery: argenté. sluggish: lent, paresseux. smartly: de manière rusée, de façon rusée. snag: accroc, anomalie, chicot, obstacle, problème. steaming: ébouillantage, étuvage, vaporisage, traitement à la vapeur, injection de vapeur, procédé d'étuvage, fumant, stérilisation à la vapeur sous pression. vengeful: vindicatif.

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luckily, luckily. But I felt it all the same; I felt often its mysterious stillness watching me at my monkey tricks, just as it watches you fellows performing on your respective tight-ropes for--what is it? half-a-crown a tumble--" "Try to be civil, Marlow," growled a voice, and I knew there was at least one listener awake besides myself.% "I beg your pardon. I forgot the heartache which makes up the rest of the price. And indeed what does the price matter, if the trick be well done? You do your tricks very well. And I didn't do badly either, since I managed not to sink that steamboat on my first trip. It's a wonder to me yet. Imagine a blindfolded man set to drive a van over a bad road. I sweated and shivered over that business considerably, I can tell you. After all, for a seaman, to scrape the bottom of the thing that's supposed to float all the time under his care is the unpardonable sin. No one may know of it, but you never forget the thump--eh? A blow on the very heart. You remember it, you dream of it, you wake up at night and think of it--years after--and go hot and cold all over. I don't pretend to say that steamboat floated all the time. More than once she had to wade for a bit, with twenty cannibals splashing around and pushing. We had enlisted some of these chaps on the way for a crew. Fine fellows--cannibals--in their place. They were men one could work with, and I am grateful to them. And, after all, they did not eat each other before my face: they had brought along a provision of hippo-meat which went rotten, and made the mystery of the wilderness stink in my nostrils. Phoo! I can sniff it now. I had the manager on board and three or four pilgrims with their staves-- all complete. Sometimes we came upon a station close by the bank, clinging to the skirts of the unknown, and the white men rushing out of a tumble-down hovel, with great gestures of joy and surprise and welcome, seemed very strange,-- had the appearance of being held there captive by a spell. The word ivory would ring in the air for a while--and on we went again into the silence, along empty reaches, round the still bends, between the high walls of our winding way, reverberating in hollow claps the ponderous beat of the stern-wheel. Trees, trees, millions of trees, massive, immense, running up high; and at their foot, hugging the bank against the stream, crept the little

French beg: mendier, mendions, mendiez, mendies, mendie, mendient, demander, prier, quémander, implorer, supplier. bends: courbe, tournants, cambre. captive: captif. clinging: collant, se cramponnant, adhérant. crept: rampa, rampèrent, rampâtes, rampas, rampai, rampâmes, rampé. enlisted: enrôlé, enrôlèrent, enrôlâtes, enrôlas, enrôlâmes, enrôla, enrôlai.

float: flotter, flotteur, planer, flotte, nager, flottant, taloche. heartache: chagrin. hollow: creux, cavité, caver. hovel: taudis, masure. listener: auditeur, écouteur. luckily: heureusement, de manière chanceuse, de façon chanceuse. monkey: singe. ponderous: pesant, lourd. reverberating: réverbérant. scrape: gratter, racler, effacer en

grattant. sniff: renifler. splashing: barbotage. stink: puanteur, puer, empester. tricks: truquages. unpardonable: inexcusable. wade: marcher dans l'eau, patauger, patauge, pataugent, pataugeons, patauges, pataugez. watches: montres, guette. winding: bobinage, enroulement, enroulage, sinueux.

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begrimed %steamboat, like a sluggish beetle crawling on the floor of a lofty portico. It made you feel very small, very lost, and yet it was not altogether depressing, that feeling. After all, if you were small, the grimy beetle crawled on--which was just what you wanted it to do. Where the pilgrims imagined it crawled to I don't know. To some place where they expected to get something, I bet! For me it crawled toward Kurtz--exclusively; but when the steam-pipes started leaking we crawled very slow. The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness. It was very quiet there. At night sometimes the roll of drums behind the curtain of trees would run up the river and remain sustained faintly, as if hovering in the air high over our heads, till the first break of day. Whether it meant war, peace, or prayer we could not tell. The dawns were heralded by the descent of a chill stillness; the woodcutters slept, their fires burned low; the snapping of a twig would make you start. We were wanderers on a prehistoric earth, on an earth that wore the aspect of an unknown planet. We could have fancied ourselves the first of men taking possession of an accursed inheritance, to be subdued at the cost of profound anguish and of excessive toil. But suddenly, as we struggled round a bend, there would be a glimpse of rush walls, of peaked grass-roofs, a burst of yells, a whirl of black limbs, a mass of hands clapping, of feet stamping, of bodies swaying, of eyes rolling, under the droop of heavy and motionless foliage. The steamer toiled along slowly on the edge of a black and incomprehensible frenzy. The prehistoric man was cursing us, praying to us, welcoming us--who could tell? We were cut off from the comprehension of our surroundings; we glided past like phantoms, wondering and secretly appalled, as sane men would be before an enthusiastic outbreak in a madhouse. We could not understand, because we were too far and could not remember, because we were traveling in the night of first ages, of those ages that are gone, leaving hardly a sign-- and no memories. "The earth seemed unearthly. We are accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there-- there you could look at a thing monstrous and free. It was unearthly, and the men were--No, they were not

French accursed: maudit. beetle: coléoptère, scarabée. clapping: claquage. conquered: conquis, conquit, conquîtes, conquîmes, conquirent. crawling: rampage, rampant. cursing: maudissant. droop: pendre, retomber, abattement, affaissement. frenzy: frénésie. grimy: crasseux, sale. heralded: annoncé.

hovering: planant, planer. leaking: coulage, écoulement, découlant, fuyant, exsudatif. leisurely: paisiblement. lofty: haut, élevé. madhouse: maison de fous. phantoms: fantômes. portico: portique. sane: raisonnable. stamping: poinçonnage, estampillage, estampage, emboutissage, timbrage, cachet.

subdued: soumîmes, soumîtes, soumit, soumirent, soumis, subjuguâtes, subjuguas, subjuguâmes, subjugué, subjuguai, subjugua. swaying: dandinement, déplacement latéral, balancement, oscillation, osciller, roulis. unearthly: surnaturel, sinistre. whirl: tourbillon, faire tournoyer, battre, tourbillonner. yells: hurle.

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inhuman. %Well, you know, that was the worst of it--this suspicion of their not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled, and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces; but what thrilled you was just the thought of their humanity-- like yours--the thought of your remote kinship with this wild and passionate uproar. Ugly. Yes, it was ugly enough; but if you were man enough you would admit to yourself that there was in you just the faintest trace of a response to the terrible frankness of that noise, a dim suspicion of there being a meaning in it which you--you so remote from the night of first ages--could comprehend. And why not? The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, valor, rage--who can tell?-- but truth--truth stripped of its cloak of time. Let the fool gape and shudder--the man knows, and can look on without a wink. But he must at least be as much of a man as these on the shore. He must meet that truth with his own true stuff--with his own inborn strength. Principles? Principles won't do. Acquisitions, clothes, pretty rags--rags that would fly off at the first good shake. No; you want a deliberate belief. An appeal to me in this fiendish row--is there? Very well; I hear; I admit, but I have a voice too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced. Of course, a fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments, is always safe. Who's that grunting? You wonder I didn't go ashore for a howl and a dance? Well, no-I didn't. Fine sentiments, you say? Fine sentiments, be hanged! I had no time. I had to mess about with white-lead and strips of woolen blanket helping to put bandages on those leaky steam-pipes--I tell you. I had to watch the steering, and circumvent those snags, and get the tin-pot along by hook or by crook. There was surface-truth enough in these things to save a wiser man. And between whiles I had to look after the savage who was fireman. He was an improved specimen; he could fire up a vertical boiler. He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a parody of breeches and a feather hat, walking on his hind-legs. A few months of training had done for that really fine chap. He squinted at the steam-gauge and at the water-gauge with an evident effort of intrepidity--and he had filed teeth too, the poor devil, and the wool of his pate shaved into queer patterns, and three ornamental scars

French bandages: bande, pansements. boiler: chaudière, chaudron. breeches: culotte, culasses, culotte d'équitation, culotte de tuyère. circumvent: circuler, circule, circulons, circulez, circulent, circules. cloak: manteau. comprehend: comprendre, comprennent, comprends, comprenez, comprenons. edifying: édifiant. feather: plume, crachat.

fiendish: diabolique. fireman: pompier. frankness: franchise. gape: béer, badauder, bayer aux corneilles, bâiller. grunting: grognement, grogner. howl: hurler, mugir, gronder, hurlement. inborn: inné, naturel, congénital. inhuman: inhumain. kinship: parenté. leaky: percé, partiellement

fonctionnel, qui fuit. ornamental: décoratif, ornemental. parody: parodie, parodier. pate: pâté, tête. sorrow: abattement, chagrin. squinted: loucha, louchai, louchâtes, louchâmes, louchèrent, louchas, louché. steering: direction, conduite, pilotage. water-gauge: échelle d'étiage. woolen: de laine, lainage, laineux, cardé.

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on each of his cheeks. He ought to have been clapping his hands and stamping his feet on the bank, instead of which he was hard at work, a thrall to strange witchcraft, full of improving knowledge. He was useful because he had been instructed; and what he knew was this--that should the water in that transparent thing disappear, the evil spirit inside the boiler would get angry through the greatness of his thirst, and take a terrible vengeance. So he sweated and fired up and watched the glass fearfully (with an impromptu charm, made of rags, tied to his arm, and a piece of polished bone, as big as a watch, stuck flatways through his lower lip), while the wooded banks slipped past us slowly, the short noise was left behind, the interminable miles of silence-- and we crept on, towards Kurtz. But the snags were thick, the water was treacherous and shallow, the boiler seemed indeed to have a sulky devil in it, and thus neither that fireman nor I had any time to peer into our creepy thoughts.% "Some fifty miles below the Inner Station we came upon a hut of reeds, an inclined and melancholy pole, with the unrecognizable tatters of what had been a flag of some sort flying from it, and a neatly stacked woodpile. This was unexpected. We came to the bank, and on the stack of firewood found a flat piece of board with some faded pencil-writing on it. When deciphered it said: `Wood for you. Hurry up. Approach cautiously.' There was a signature, but it was illegible--not Kurtz--a much longer word. `Hurry up.' Where? Up the river? `Approach cautiously.' We had not done so. But the warning could not have been meant for the place where it could be only found after approach. Something was wrong above. But what--and how much? That was the question. We commented adversely upon the imbecility of that telegraphic style. The bush around said nothing, and would not let us look very far, either. A torn curtain of red twill hung in the doorway of the hut, and flapped sadly in our faces. The dwelling was dismantled; but we could see a white man had lived there not very long ago. There remained a rude table--a plank on two posts; a heap of rubbish reposed in a dark corner, and by the door I picked up a book. It had lost its covers, and the pages had been thumbed into a state of extremely dirty softness; but the back had been lovingly stitched afresh with white cotton thread, which looked clean yet. It was an extraordinary find. Its title was, `An Inquiry into

French afresh: de nouveau, encore. creepy: terrifiant. deciphered: déchiffré, déchiffrai, déchiffra, déchiffrâmes, déchiffrèrent, déchiffras, déchiffrâtes. dwelling: habitation, demeurant, demeure, domicile, logement, logis, logeant, gîte. fearfully: de manière effrayante, de façon effrayante. firewood: bois de chauffage, bois à brûler, bois de feu.

imbecility: imbécillité. impromptu: impromptu. lovingly: de manière amoureuse, de façon amoureuse. melancholy: mélancolie, mélancolique, abattement, sombre. peer: pair. plank: planche, panneau. polished: poli. reeds: roseaux. softness: douceur, mollesse. stack: pile, entasser, tas, accumuler,

empiler, cheminée, meule, ramasser, rassembler, gerber. stacked: empilé, entreposé, superposé. tatters: loques, lambeaux, guenilles. telegraphic: télégraphique. thirst: soif, avoir soif. thrall: servitude. thread: fil, filet, enfiler, fileter, filetage. transparent: transparent. twill: sergé, croisé. vengeance: revanche, vengeance. witchcraft: sorcellerie.

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some%Points of Seamanship,' by a man Tower, Towson--some such name-Master in his Majesty's Navy. The matter looked dreary reading enough, with illustrative diagrams and repulsive tables of figures, and the copy was sixty years old. I handled this amazing antiquity with the greatest possible tenderness, lest it should dissolve in my hands. Within, Towson or Towser was inquiring earnestly into the breaking strain of ships' chains and tackle, and other such matters. Not a very enthralling book; but at the first glance you could see there a singleness of intention, an honest concern for the right way of going to work, which made these humble pages, thought out so many years ago, luminous with another than a professional light. The simple old sailor, with his talk of chains and purchases, made me forget the jungle and the pilgrims in a delicious sensation of having come upon something unmistakably real. Such a book being there was wonderful enough; but still more astounding were the notes penciled in the margin, and plainly referring to the text. I couldn't believe my eyes! They were in cipher! Yes, it looked like cipher. Fancy a man lugging with him a book of that description into this nowhere and studying it--and making notes--in cipher at that! It was an extravagant mystery. "I had been dimly aware for some time of a worrying noise, and when I lifted my eyes I saw the wood-pile was gone, and the manager, aided by all the pilgrims, was shouting at me from the river-side. I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship. "I started the lame engine ahead. `It must be this miserable trader-- this intruder,' exclaimed the manager, looking back malevolently at the place we had left. `He must be English,' I said. `It will not save him from getting into trouble if he is not careful,' muttered the manager darkly. I observed with assumed innocence that no man was safe from trouble in this world. "The current was more rapid now, the steamer seemed at her last gasp, the stern-wheel flopped languidly, and I caught myself listening on tiptoe for the next beat of the boat, for in sober truth I expected the wretched thing to give up every moment. It was like watching the last flickers of a life. But still we

French aided: assisté. antiquity: antiquité. astounding: étonnant, abasourdissant, confondant, stupéfiant. cipher: chiffre, chiffrer. darkly: de façon foncée, de manière foncée. diagrams: diagrammes. dimly: de manière faible, de façon faible. dissolve: dissoudre, dissolvons, dissolvez, dissolvent, dissous,

résoudre, dissout. dreary: morne, triste, affreux, épouvantable, sombre, maussade, désagréable, désert, désolé, abominable, horrible. enthralling: captivant, passionnant. extravagant: extravagant. gasp: halètement, haleter. illustrative: explicatif. inquiring: s'enquérant, interrogateur. lame: boiteux. lest: de peur que.

malevolently: de manière malveillante, de façon malveillante. plainly: de manière plaine. purchases: achats, achète. repulsive: répulsif, affreux, épouvantable, horrible, répugnant, repoussant. sober: sobre. tearing: déchirement, déchirure. tenderness: tendresse, tendreté. unmistakably: de manière indubitable, de façon indubitable.

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crawled. Sometimes I would pick out a tree a little way ahead to measure our progress towards Kurtz by, but I lost it invariably before we got abreast. To keep the eyes so long on one thing was too much for human patience. The manager displayed a beautiful resignation. I fretted and fumed and took to arguing with myself whether or no I would talk openly with Kurtz; but before I could come to any conclusion it occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility. What did it matter what anyone knew or ignored? What did it matter who was manager? One gets sometimes such a flash of insight. The essentials of this affair lay deep under the surface, beyond my reach, and beyond my power of meddling.% "Towards the evening of the second day we judged ourselves about eight miles from Kurtz's station. I wanted to push on; but the manager looked grave, and told me the navigation up there was so dangerous that it would be advisable, the sun being very low already, to wait where we were till next morning. Moreover, he pointed out that if the warning to approach cautiously were to be followed, we must approach in daylight-- not at dusk, or in the dark. This was sensible enough. Eight miles meant nearly three hours' steaming for us, and I could also see suspicious ripples at the upper end of the reach. Nevertheless, I was annoyed beyond expression at the delay, and most unreasonably too, since one night more could not matter much after so many months. As we had plenty of wood, and caution was the word, I brought up in the middle of the stream. The reach was narrow, straight, with high sides like a railway cutting. The dusk came gliding into it long before the sun had set. The current ran smooth and swift, but a dumb immobility sat on the banks. The living trees, lashed together by the creepers and every living bush of the undergrowth, might have been changed into stone, even to the slenderest twig, to the lightest leaf. It was not sleep--it seemed unnatural, like a state of trance. Not the faintest sound of any kind could be heard. You looked on amazed, and began to suspect yourself of being deaf-- then the night came suddenly, and struck you blind as well. About three in the morning some large fish leaped, and the loud splash made me jump as though a gun had been fired. When the sun rose there was a white fog, very warm and clammy, and more blinding than the

French abreast: de front. advisable: recommandé. amazed: étonné, étonnèrent, étonnâtes, étonnas, étonnai, étonna, étonnâmes, abasourdi, abasourdie, abasourdirent. cautiously: avec précaution, de manière prudente, de façon prudente. clammy: humide, moite. crawled: rampé. essentials: essentiel.

flash: flash, éclat, clignoter, éclair, bavure. fog: brouillard, voile, buée. futility: futilité. gliding: vol à voile, glissement. immobility: immobilité. insight: perspicacité. lashed: amarré, amarrèrent, amarrai, amarrée, amarra. leaf: feuille, feuillet. openly: ouvertement. patience: patience.

ripples: ondulations. splash: clapoter, éclabousser, éclaboussure, barboter, gicler. swift: rapide, prompt, martinet noir, martinet. trance: transe. undergrowth: couverture vivante, broussailles. unnatural: anormal. unreasonably: de manière déraisonnable, de façon déraisonnable.

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night. % It did not shift or drive; it was just there, standing all round you like something solid. At eight or nine, perhaps, it lifted as a shutter lifts. We had a glimpse of the towering multitude of trees, of the immense matted jungle, with the blazing little ball of the sun hanging over it--all perfectly still--and then the white shutter came down again, smoothly, as if sliding in greased grooves. I ordered the chain, which we had begun to heave in, to be paid out again. Before it stopped running with a muffled rattle, a cry, a very loud cry, as of infinite desolation, soared slowly in the opaque air. It ceased. A complaining clamor, modulated in savage discords, filled our ears. The sheer unexpectedness of it made my hair stir under my cap. I don't know how it struck the others: to me it seemed as though the mist itself had screamed, so suddenly, and apparently from all sides at once, did this tumultuous and mournful uproar arise. It culminated in a hurried outbreak of almost intolerably excessive shrieking, which stopped short, leaving us stiffened in a variety of silly attitudes, and obstinately listening to the nearly as appalling and excessive silence. `Good God! What is the meaning--?' stammered at my elbow one of the pilgrims,--a little fat man, with sandy hair and red whiskers, who wore side-spring boots, and pink pyjamas tucked into his socks. Two others remained open-mouthed a whole minute, then dashed into the little cabin, to rush out incontinently and stand darting scared glances, with Winchesters at `ready' in their hands. What we could see was just the steamer we were on, her outlines blurred as though she had been on the point of dissolving, and a misty strip of water, perhaps two feet broad, around her--and that was all. The rest of the world was nowhere, as far as our eyes and ears were concerned. Just nowhere. Gone, disappeared; swept off without leaving a whisper or a shadow behind. "I went forward, and ordered the chain to be hauled in short, so as to be ready to trip the anchor and move the steamboat at once if necessary. `Will they attack?' whispered an awed voice. `We will all be butchered in this fog,' murmured another. The faces twitched with the strain, the hands trembled slightly, the eyes forgot to wink. It was very curious to see the contrast of expressions of the white men and of the black fellows of our crew, who were as much strangers to that part of the river as we, though their homes were only

French clamor: clameur. culminated: culminé, culmina, culminai, culminâmes, culminas, culminâtes, culminèrent. dissolving: dissolvant. greased: graissé. grooves: gorges, empreintes, rainures de cylindre. heave: lever, pilonnement, soulever. incontinently: de façon incontinente, de manière incontinente. intolerably: de manière intolérable,

intolérablement, de façon intolérable. modulated: modulâtes, modulas, modulai, modulâmes, modula, modulèrent, modulé. muffled: étouffé, assourdi, assourdirent, assourdie, assourdies. obstinately: de manière obstinée, de façon obstinée, obstinément. opaque: opaque, opacifiant. rattle: cliquetis, claquer, crécelle, hochet. shrieking: cris perçants, hurlement,

hurler. stammered: bégayé. stiffened: raidîmes, raidîtes, raidit, raidirent, raidis, raidi. towering: très haut, mirage allongeant verticalement l'image. trembled: tremblé. tumultuous: tumultueux. unexpectedness: soudaineté. whiskers: bavures fines, barbes, barbe, trichite, trichites, favoris, moustaches, monocristaux orientés.

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eight %hundred miles away. The whites, of course greatly discomposed, had besides a curious look of being painfully shocked by such an outrageous row. The others had an alert, naturally interested expression; but their faces were essentially quiet, even those of the one or two who grinned as they hauled at the chain. Several exchanged short, grunting phrases, which seemed to settle the matter to their satisfaction. Their headman, a young, broad-chested black, severely draped in dark-blue fringed cloths, with fierce nostrils and his hair all done up artfully in oily ringlets, stood near me. `Aha!' I said, just for good fellowship's sake. `Catch `im,' he snapped, with a bloodshot widening of his eyes and a flash of sharp teeth--'catch `im. Give `im to us.' `To you, eh?' I asked; `what would you do with them?' `Eat `im!' he said curtly, and, leaning his elbow on the rail, looked out into the fog in a dignified and profoundly pensive attitude. I would no doubt have been properly horrified, had it not occurred to me that he and his chaps must be very hungry: that they must have been growing increasingly hungry for at least this month past. They had been engaged for six months (I don't think a single one of them had any clear idea of time, as we at the end of countless ages have. They still belonged to the beginnings of time--had no inherited experience to teach them as it were), and of course, as long as there was a piece of paper written over in accordance with some farcical law or other made down the river, it didn't enter anybody's head to trouble how they would live. Certainly they had brought with them some rotten hippo-meat, which couldn't have lasted very long, anyway, even if the pilgrims hadn't, in the midst of a shocking hullabaloo, thrown a considerable quantity of it overboard. It looked like a high-handed proceeding; but it was really a case of legitimate self-defense. You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence. Besides that, they had given them every week three pieces of brass wire, each about nine inches long; and the theory was they were to buy their provisions with that currency in river-side villages. You can see how THAT worked. There were either no villages, or the people were hostile, or the director, who like the rest of us fed out of tins, with an occasional old he-goat thrown in, didn't want to stop the steamer for some more or less recondite reason. So, unless they swallowed

French accordance: accord, conformité, convention, concordance, entente. artfully: de manière astucieuse, de façon astucieuse. belonged: appartenu, appartins, appartint, appartîntes, appartinrent, appartînmes. bloodshot: injecté de sang. breathe: respirer, respire, respires, respirent, respirons, respirez. cloths: tissus. countless: incalculable, innombrable.

curtly: de manière brusque, de façon brusque, sèchement. dignified: digne. elbow: coude. exchanged: échangées. headman: chef. horrified: horrifias, horrifiâtes, horrifièrent, horrifia, horrifiai, horrifiâmes, horrifié. lasted: duré. outrageous: scandaleux. overboard: à la mer.

pensive: pensif, songeur. phrases: phrases. precarious: précaire. proceeding: procédant, avançant. profoundly: profondément, de manière profonde, de façon profonde. recondite: abstrus, obscur. ringlets: anglaises, repentirs. shocking: choquant. waking: rester éveillé, réveiller. widening: élargissement, élargissant.

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the %wire itself, or made loops of it to snare the fishes with, I don't see what good their extravagant salary could be to them. I must say it was paid with a regularity worthy of a large and honorable trading company. For the rest, the only thing to eat-- though it didn't look eatable in the least--I saw in their possession was a few lumps of some stuff like half-cooked dough, of a dirty lavender color, they kept wrapped in leaves, and now and then swallowed a piece of, but so small that it seemed done more for the looks of the thing than for any serious purpose of sustenance. Why in the name of all the gnawing devils of hunger they didn't go for us--they were thirty to five-- and have a good tuck in for once, amazes me now when I think of it. They were big powerful men, with not much capacity to weigh the consequences, with courage, with strength, even yet, though their skins were no longer glossy and their muscles no longer hard. And I saw that something restraining, one of those human secrets that baffle probability, had come into play there. I looked at them with a swift quickening of interest-- not because it occurred to me I might be eaten by them before very long, though I own to you that just then I perceived-- in a new light, as it were-how unwholesome the pilgrims looked, and I hoped, yes, I positively hoped, that my aspect was not so-- what shall I say?--so--unappetizing: a touch of fantastic vanity which fitted well with the dream-sensation that pervaded all my days at that time. Perhaps I had a little fever too. One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse. I had often `a little fever,' or a little touch of other things-- the playful paw-strokes of the wilderness, the preliminary trifling before the more serious onslaught which came in due course. Yes; I looked at them as you would on any human being, with a curiosity of their impulses, motives, capacities, weaknesses, when brought to the test of an inexorable physical necessity. Restraint! What possible restraint? Was it superstition, disgust, patience, fear--or some kind of primitive honor? No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs, and what you may call principles, they are less than chaff in a breeze. Don't you know the devilry of lingering starvation, its exasperating torment, its black thoughts, its somber and brooding ferocity? Well, I do. It takes a man all his inborn strength to fight hunger properly. It's

French amazes: étonne. baffle: déflecteur, chicane, cloison, baffle, déflecteur acoustique, écran, écran acoustique. capacities: capacités. chaff: balle, menue paille, paillette. dough: pâte. eatable: mangeable, comestible. everlastingly: de manière éternelle, de façon éternelle. ferocity: férocité. fishes: pêche.

gnawing: rongeant. honor: honneur, honorer. honorable: honorable. impulses: impulsions. inexorable: inexorable. lavender: lavande, bleu lavande. lingering: traînant, prolongé. lumps: grumeaux de caoutchouc. onslaught: attaque. pervaded: imprégnèrent, imprégna, imprégnai, imprégnâmes, imprégnas, imprégnâtes, imprégné.

playful: espiègle. quickening: dégourdissement, accélération, hâtant, accélérant. regularity: régularité. restraining: retenant. snare: piège, collet. superstition: superstition. sustenance: nourriture, sustentation. torment: torture, tourmenter, supplice. trifling: mineur. unwholesome: malsain. vanity: vanité, futilité.

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really easier to face bereavement, dishonor, and the perdition of one's soul--than this kind of prolonged hunger. Sad, but true. And these chaps too had no earthly reason for any kind of scruple. Restraint! I would just as soon have expected restraint from a hyena prowling amongst the corpses of a battlefield. But there was the fact facing me--the fact dazzling, to be seen, like the foam on the depths of the sea, like a ripple on an unfathomable enigma, a mystery greater--when I thought of it-- than the curious, inexplicable note of desperate grief in this savage clamor that had swept by us on the river-bank, behind the blind whiteness of the fog.% "Two pilgrims were quarreling in hurried whispers as to which bank. `Left.' `No, no; how can you? Right, right, of course.' `It is very serious,' said the manager's voice behind me; `I would be desolated if anything should happen to Mr. Kurtz before we came up.' I looked at him, and had not the slightest doubt he was sincere. He was just the kind of man who would wish to preserve appearances. That was his restraint. But when he muttered something about going on at once, I did not even take the trouble to answer him. I knew, and he knew, that it was impossible. Were we to let go our hold of the bottom, we would be absolutely in the air--in space. We wouldn't be able to tell where we were going to--whether up or down stream, or across--till we fetched against one bank or the other,--and then we wouldn't know at first which it was. Of course I made no move. I had no mind for a smash-up. You couldn't imagine a more deadly place for a shipwreck. Whether drowned at once or not, we were sure to perish speedily in one way or another. `I authorize you to take all the risks,' he said, after a short silence. `I refuse to take any,' I said shortly; which was just the answer he expected, though its tone might have surprised him. `Well, I must defer to your judgment. You are captain,' he said, with marked civility. I turned my shoulder to him in sign of my appreciation, and looked into the fog. How long would it last? It was the most hopeless look-out. The approach to this Kurtz grubbing for ivory in the wretched bush was beset by as many dangers as though he had been an enchanted princess sleeping in a fabulous castle. `Will they attack, do you think?' asked the manager, in a confidential tone.

French authorize: autoriser, autorise, autorises, autorisent, autorisez, autorisons, permettre. battlefield: champ de bataille. bereavement: deuil. beset: assaillir. civility: civilité. corpses: cadavres. dazzling: éblouissant, éblouir, éclatant. defer: différer, différez, différons, diffère, diffèrent, diffères.

dishonor: déshonneur, déshonorer, refus d'acceptation. drowned: noyé, noya, noyèrent, noyâmes, noyai, noyâtes, noyas. enchanted: enchanté, enchantâmes, enchantai, enchantèrent, enchanta, enchantas, enchantâtes. fabulous: fabuleux. foam: écume, mousse, mousser, moussage. grubbing: défrichement. hopeless: désespéré, impossible, sans

espoir. hyena: hyène. inexplicable: inexplicable. perish: périr, périssons, périssez, périssent, péris, s'abîmer. prowling: rôdant. ripple: ondulation, ride, onduler. scruple: scrupule. shipwreck: naufrage, épave. sincere: sincère. unfathomable: insondable. whiteness: blancheur, pâleur.

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"I did not think they would attack, for several obvious reasons. The thick fog was one. If they left the bank in their canoes they would get lost in it, as we would be if we attempted to move. Still, I had also judged the jungle of both banks quite impenetrable-- and yet eyes were in it, eyes that had seen us. The river-side bushes were certainly very thick; but the undergrowth behind was evidently penetrable. However, during the short lift I had seen no canoes anywhere in the reach--certainly not abreast of the steamer. But what made the idea of attack inconceivable to me was the nature of the noise--of the cries we had heard. They had not the fierce character boding of immediate hostile intention. Unexpected, wild, and violent as they had been, they had given me an irresistible impression of sorrow. The glimpse of the steamboat had for some reason filled those savages with unrestrained grief. The danger, if any, I expounded, was from our proximity to a great human passion let loose. Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy. . . .% "You should have seen the pilgrims stare! They had no heart to grin, or even to revile me; but I believe they thought me gone mad--with fright, maybe. I delivered a regular lecture. My dear boys, it was no good bothering. Keep a look-out? Well, you may guess I watched the fog for the signs of lifting as a cat watches a mouse; but for anything else our eyes were of no more use to us than if we had been buried miles deep in a heap of cotton-wool. It felt like it too-choking, warm, stifling. Besides, all I said, though it sounded extravagant, was absolutely true to fact. What we afterwards alluded to as an attack was really an attempt at repulse. The action was very far from being aggressive--it was not even defensive, in the usual sense: it was undertaken under the stress of desperation, and in its essence was purely protective. "It developed itself, I should say, two hours after the fog lifted, and its commencement was at a spot, roughly speaking, about a mile and a half below Kurtz's station. We had just floundered and flopped round a bend, when I saw an islet, a mere grassy hummock of bright green, in the middle of the stream. It was the only thing of the kind; but as we opened the reach more, I perceived it

French apathy: apathie, abattement. boding: présageant. bothering: ennuyant. bushes: buissons. commencement: début, commencement, inauguration. cries: pleure. defensive: défensif, défensive. expounded: exposèrent, exposa, exposai, exposâmes, exposas, exposâtes, exposé. grassy: herbeux, herbu.

grin: sourire, rictus. heap: tas, amas, entasser, accumuler, foule, masse, collection, bande, troupe, ensemble, multitude. hummock: hummock. inconceivable: inconcevable, abracadabrant, inimaginable. islet: îlot. jungle: jungle. lifting: levage. penetrable: pénétrable. protective: protecteur.

proximity: proximité, voisinage. repulse: rejeter, échec, repousser. revile: injurions, vilipendez, vilipendes, vilipendent, vilipende, vilipendons, insultons, insultent, injuriez, injuries, injurient. stare: dévisager, regard fixe, fixer, regarder fixement, regard. stifling: étouffant. unrestrained: effréné. vent: évent, conduit, décharger, cheminée.

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was the head of a long sandbank, or rather of a chain of shallow patches stretching down the middle of the river. They were discolored, just awash, and the whole lot was seen just under the water, exactly as a man's backbone is seen running down the middle of his back under the skin. Now, as far as I did see, I could go to the right or to the left of this. I didn't know either channel, of course. The banks looked pretty well alike, the depth appeared the same; but as I had been informed the station was on the west side, I naturally headed for the western passage.% "No sooner had we fairly entered it than I became aware it was much narrower than I had supposed. To the left of us there was the long uninterrupted shoal, and to the right a high, steep bank heavily overgrown with bushes. Above the bush the trees stood in serried ranks. The twigs overhung the current thickly, and from distance to distance a large limb of some tree projected rigidly over the stream. It was then well on in the afternoon, the face of the forest was gloomy, and a broad strip of shadow had already fallen on the water. In this shadow we steamed up--very slowly, as you may imagine. I sheered her well inshore--the water being deepest near the bank, as the sounding-pole informed me. "One of my hungry and forbearing friends was sounding in the bows just below me. This steamboat was exactly like a decked scow. On the deck there were two little teak-wood houses, with doors and windows. The boiler was in the fore-end, and the machinery right astern. Over the whole there was a light roof, supported on stanchions. The funnel projected through that roof, and in front of the funnel a small cabin built of light planks served for a pilot-house. It contained a couch, two camp-stools, a loaded Martini-Henry leaning in one corner, a tiny table, and the steering-wheel. It had a wide door in front and a broad shutter at each side. All these were always thrown open, of course. I spent my days perched up there on the extreme fore-end of that roof, before the door. At night I slept, or tried to, on the couch. An athletic black belonging to some coast tribe, and educated by my poor predecessor, was the helmsman. He sported a pair of brass earrings, wore a blue cloth wrapper from the waist to the

French astern: arrière, en poupe, sur l'arrière. athletic: athlétique. awash: à fleur d'eau, inondé. couch: canapé, divan, presse coucheuse. decked: orné, pontée, ponté, ornèrent, ornâtes, ornas, ornâmes, orna, ornai. deepest: le plus profond. discolored: décoloré, décolora, décolorèrent, décolorâtes, décolorai, décolorâmes, décoloras. forbearing: patient.

funnel: entonnoir, cheminée. gloomy: sombre, morne. helmsman: timonier, homme de barre, barreur. limb: membre, limbe, flanc. loaded: chargé. overgrown: envahi. overhung: surplomba. projected: projeté. rigidly: rigidement, de manière rigide, de façon rigide. sandbank: banc de sable.

scow: chaland. shoal: diminuer, banc de poissons, banc de poisson, banc de sable, basse, platier, maigre. sounding: sondage, sonore. steamed: à la vapeur, vapeur la, passé à la pression. stretching: étirement, étirage. thickly: de manière épaisse, de façon épaisse. tribe: peuplade. twigs: brindilles.

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ankles, and thought all the world of himself. He was the most unstable kind of fool I had ever seen. He steered with no end of a swagger while you were by; but if he lost sight of you, he became instantly the prey of an abject funk, and would let that cripple of a steamboat get the upper hand of him in a minute.% "I was looking down at the sounding-pole, and feeling much annoyed to see at each try a little more of it stick out of that river, when I saw my poleman give up the business suddenly, and stretch himself flat on the deck, without even taking the trouble to haul his pole in. He kept hold on it though, and it trailed in the water. At the same time the fireman, whom I could also see below me, sat down abruptly before his furnace and ducked his head. I was amazed. Then I had to look at the river mighty quick, because there was a snag in the fairway. Sticks, little sticks, were flying about--thick: they were whizzing before my nose, dropping below me, striking behind me against my pilot-house. All this time the river, the shore, the woods, were very quiet-- perfectly quiet. I could only hear the heavy splashing thump of the stern-wheel and the patter of these things. We cleared the snag clumsily. Arrows, by Jove! We were being shot at! I stepped in quickly to close the shutter on the land side. That fool-helmsman, his hands on the spokes, was lifting his knees high, stamping his feet, champing his mouth, like a reined-in horse. Confound him! And we were staggering within ten feet of the bank. I had to lean right out to swing the heavy shutter, and I saw a face amongst the leaves on the level with my own, looking at me very fierce and steady; and then suddenly, as though a veil had been removed from my eyes, I made out, deep in the tangled gloom, naked breasts, arms, legs, glaring eyes,-the bush was swarming with human limbs in movement, glistening, of bronze color. The twigs shook, swayed, and rustled, the arrows flew out of them, and then the shutter came to. `Steer her straight,' I said to the helmsman. He held his head rigid, face forward; but his eyes rolled, he kept on lifting and setting down his feet gently, his mouth foamed a little. `Keep quiet!' I said in a fury. I might just as well have ordered a tree not to sway in the wind. I darted out. Below me there was a great scuffle of feet on the iron deck; confused exclamations; a voice screamed, `Can you turn back?' I caught shape of a V-shaped ripple on the water ahead. What? Another snag! A fusillade burst out under my feet. The pilgrims

French abject: abject, lâche, pauvre, misérable. abruptly: brusquement, abruptement, sèchement, de manière abrupte, de façon abrupte. breasts: poitrine, seins. bronze: bronze, airain, bronzer. champing: mâchonnant. clumsily: maladroitement, de manière maladroite, de façon maladroite. confound: confondre, déconcerter. cripple: estropié, paralyser. fairway: chenal, passe.

foamed: moussèrent, moussâmes, moussée, moussées, moussés. funk: peureux, frousse. furnace: four, fourneau, fournaise, cuisinière, chaudière. fusillade: fusillade. glaring: éblouissant. haul: tirer, transporter, tirage, traîner, haler. limbs: membres. patter: crépitement, baratin, trottiner, truelle de bois.

screamed: crié. spokes: effet de traces radiales sur écran radar, nervure radiale. staggering: chancelant, renversant. steered: asservi. swarming: grouillement, essaimage. sway: vaciller, balancement, oscillation, osciller, se balancer. tangled: embrouillé. thump: cogner, frapper. unstable: instable. veil: voile, voiler.

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had opened with their Winchesters, and were simply squirting lead into that bush. A deuce of a lot of smoke came up and drove slowly forward. I swore at it. Now I couldn't see the ripple or the snag either. I stood in the doorway, peering, and the arrows came in swarms. They might have been poisoned, but they looked as though they wouldn't kill a cat. The bush began to howl. Our woodcutters raised a warlike whoop; the report of a rifle just at my back deafened me. I glanced over my shoulder, and the pilot-house was yet full of noise and smoke when I made a dash at the wheel. The fool-nigger had dropped everything, to throw the shutter open and let off that Martini-Henry. He stood before the wide opening, glaring, and I yelled at him to come back, while I straightened the sudden twist out of that steamboat. There was no room to turn even if I had wanted to, the snag was somewhere very near ahead in that confounded smoke, there was no time to lose, so I just crowded her into the bank-- right into the bank, where I knew the water was deep.% "We tore slowly along the overhanging bushes in a whirl of broken twigs and flying leaves. The fusillade below stopped short, as I had foreseen it would when the squirts got empty. I threw my head back to a glinting whizz that traversed the pilot-house, in at one shutter-hole and out at the other. Looking past that mad helmsman, who was shaking the empty rifle and yelling at the shore, I saw vague forms of men running bent double, leaping, gliding, distinct, incomplete, evanescent. Something big appeared in the air before the shutter, the rifle went overboard, and the man stepped back swiftly, looked at me over his shoulder in an extraordinary, profound, familiar manner, and fell upon my feet. The side of his head hit the wheel twice, and the end of what appeared a long cane clattered round and knocked over a little camp-stool. It looked as though after wrenching that thing from somebody ashore he had lost his balance in the effort. The thin smoke had blown away, we were clear of the snag, and looking ahead I could see that in another hundred yards or so I would be free to sheer off, away from the bank; but my feet felt so very warm and wet that I had to look down. The man had rolled on his back and stared straight up at me; both his hands clutched that cane. It was the shaft of a spear that, either thrown or lunged through the opening, had caught him in the side just below the ribs; the

French blown: soufflé. cane: canne, bâton, roseau, jonc, canner, rotin. clutched: agriffa, agriffèrent, agriffées, agriffai, agriffé, saisi. crowded: bondé, encombré. dash: tiret, trait. deafened: assourdi, assourdîmes, assourdîtes, assourdit, assourdirent, assourdis. evanescent: évanescent. foreseen: prévu, prévue, prévues,

prévus. incomplete: incomplet. leaping: sauter, saut. overhanging: surplombant. peering: échange de trafic. poisoned: empoisonné. profound: profond. shaft: arbre, fût, axe, puits, hampe, manche, timon, tige, brancard, puits de mine. straightened: redressa, redressâmes, redressai, redressas, redressèrent,

redressâtes, redressé. swiftly: rapidement, vite, de manière rapide, de façon rapide. traversed: traversé. twist: tordre, torsion, torsade, torsader. warlike: guerrier, belliqueux. whizz: filer. whoop: cri, chant du coq, reprise. wrenching: soulevage. yelled: hurlé. yelling: hurlement.

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blade%had gone in out of sight, after making a frightful gash; my shoes were full; a pool of blood lay very still, gleaming dark-red under the wheel; his eyes shone with an amazing luster. The fusillade burst out again. He looked at me anxiously, gripping the spear like something precious, with an air of being afraid I would try to take it away from him. I had to make an effort to free my eyes from his gaze and attend to the steering. With one hand I felt above my head for the line of the steam-whistle, and jerked out screech after screech hurriedly. The tumult of angry and warlike yells was checked instantly, and then from the depths of the woods went out such a tremulous and prolonged wail of mournful fear and utter despair as may be imagined to follow the flight of the last hope from the earth. There was a great commotion in the bush; the shower of arrows stopped, a few dropping shots rang out sharply--then silence, in which the languid beat of the stern-wheel came plainly to my ears. I put the helm hard astarboard at the moment when the pilgrim in pink pyjamas, very hot and agitated, appeared in the doorway. `The manager sends me--' he began in an official tone, and stopped short. `Good God!' he said, glaring at the wounded man. "We two whites stood over him, and his lustrous and inquiring glance enveloped us both. I declare it looked as though he would presently put to us some question in an understandable language; but he died without uttering a sound, without moving a limb, without twitching a muscle. Only in the very last moment, as though in response to some sign we could not see, to some whisper we could not hear, he frowned heavily, and that frown gave to his black deathmask an inconceivably somber, brooding, and menacing expression. The luster of inquiring glance faded swiftly into vacant glassiness. `Can you steer?' I asked the agent eagerly. He looked very dubious; but I made a grab at his arm, and he understood at once I meant him to steer whether or no. To tell you the truth, I was morbidly anxious to change my shoes and socks. `He is dead,' murmured the fellow, immensely impressed. `No doubt about it,' said I, tugging like mad at the shoe-laces. `And, by the way, I suppose Mr. Kurtz is dead as well by this time.'

French agitated: agité, agitâtes, agitas, agitâmes, agita, agitai, agitèrent, troublé, troublai, troublèrent, troublâtes. commotion: agitation, scandale, commotion. enveloped: enveloppé, enveloppâmes, enveloppai, enveloppèrent, enveloppa, enveloppas, enveloppâtes. frown: froncement de sourcils. gash: entaille, balafre.

gleaming: luisant. gripping: ancrage, passionnant, agrippant, saisir. helm: gouvernail, barre, timon. hurriedly: à la hâte, de manière hâtive, de façon hâtive, précipitamment. inconceivably: de manière inconcevable, de façon inconcevable. luster: lustre, éclat. lustrous: brillant. menacing: menaçant, sinistre. morbidly: de manière morbide, de

façon morbide. pilgrim: pèlerin. pyjamas: pyjama. screech: crisser, crissement, hurlement, hurler. steer: diriger, conduire, boeuf, piloter, bouvillon, gouverner. tremulous: timide, tremblotant. twitching: contraction musculaire. uttering: prononcer. wail: se lamenter, gémissement, gémir.

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"For%the moment that was the dominant thought. There was a sense of extreme disappointment, as though I had found out I had been striving after something altogether without a substance. I couldn't have been more disgusted if I had traveled all this way for the sole purpose of talking with Mr. Kurtz. Talking with. . . . I flung one shoe overboard, and became aware that that was exactly what I had been looking forward to-- a talk with Kurtz. I made the strange discovery that I had never imagined him as doing, you know, but as discoursing. I didn't say to myself, `Now I will never see him,' or `Now I will never shake him by the hand,' but, `Now I will never hear him.' The man presented himself as a voice. Not of course that I did not connect him with some sort of action. Hadn't I been told in all the tones of jealousy and admiration that he had collected, bartered, swindled, or stolen more ivory than all the other agents together? That was not the point. The point was in his being a gifted creature, and that of all his gifts the one that stood out pre-eminently, that carried with it a sense of real presence, was his ability to talk, his words-- the gift of expression, the bewildering, the illuminating, the most exalted and the most contemptible, the pulsating stream of light, or the deceitful flow from the heart of an impenetrable darkness. "The other shoe went flying unto the devil-god of that river. I thought, `By Jove! it's all over. We are too late; he has vanished-- the gift has vanished, by means of some spear, arrow, or club. I will never hear that chap speak after all,'-and my sorrow had a startling extravagance of emotion, even such as I had noticed in the howling sorrow of these savages in the bush. I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life. . . . Why do you sigh in this beastly way, somebody? Absurd? Well, absurd. Good Lord! mustn't a man ever--Here, give me some tobacco." . . . There was a pause of profound stillness, then a match flared, and Marlow's lean face appeared, worn, hollow, with downward folds and dropped eyelids, with an aspect of concentrated attention; and as he took vigorous draws at his

French admiration: admiration. arrow: flèche. beastly: bestial, brutal. bewildering: ahurissant, effarant. chap: individu, type, gerçure, gercer. connect: connecter, connectez, connectent, connectons, connectes, connecte, joindre, relier, aboucher, attacher, allier. contemptible: méprisable. deceitful: trompeur. destiny: destinée, destin, sort,

destination, fortune. disgusted: dégoûté. downward: descendant, vers le bas. draws: dessine, puise, appâte, trace. emotion: émotion. extravagance: extravagance. flared: collet mandriné, évasé. folds: plie, plisse. howling: hurlant. illuminating: illuminant. jealousy: jalousie, envie. pulsating: pulsatoire.

robbed: pillèrent, pillâtes, pillas, pillâmes, pillai, pilla, pillé, ravîtes, ravi, ravîmes, ravirent. shoe: chaussure, soulier, sabot, ferrer. sigh: soupir. striving: combattant. swindled: escroqué, escroqués, escroquâmes, escroquée. traveled: voyageai, voyageâtes, voyageas, voyageâmes, voyagèrent, voyagé, voyagea. vigorous: vigoureux.

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pipe, %it seemed to retreat and advance out of the night in the regular flicker of the tiny flame. The match went out. "Absurd!" he cried. "This is the worst of trying to tell. . . . Here you all are, each moored with two good addresses, like a hulk with two anchors, a butcher round one corner, a policeman round another, excellent appetites, and temperature normal--you hear--normal from year's end to year's end. And you say, Absurd! Absurd be--exploded! Absurd! My dear boys, what can you expect from a man who out of sheer nervousness had just flung overboard a pair of new shoes. Now I think of it, it is amazing I did not shed tears. I am, upon the whole, proud of my fortitude. I was cut to the quick at the idea of having lost the inestimable privilege of listening to the gifted Kurtz. Of course I was wrong. The privilege was waiting for me. Oh yes, I heard more than enough. And I was right, too. A voice. He was very little more than a voice. And I heard--him--it-this voice-- other voices--all of them were so little more than voices--and the memory of that time itself lingers around me, impalpable, like a dying vibration of one immense jabber, silly, atrocious, sordid, savage, or simply mean, without any kind of sense. Voices, voices--even the girl herself--now--" He was silent for a long time. "I laid the ghost of his gifts at last with a lie," he began suddenly. "Girl! What? Did I mention a girl? Oh, she is out of it--completely. They--the women, I mean-- are out of it--should be out of it. We must help them to stay in that beautiful world of their own, lest ours gets worse. Oh, she had to be out of it. You should have heard the disinterred body of Mr. Kurtz saying, `My Intended.' You would have perceived directly then how completely she was out of it. And the lofty frontal bone of Mr. Kurtz! They say the hair goes on growing sometimes, but this--ah specimen, was impressively bald. The wilderness had patted him on the head, and, behold, it was like a ball--an ivory ball; it had caressed him, and--lo!-- he had withered; it had taken him, loved him, embraced him, got into his veins, consumed his flesh, and sealed his soul to its own by the inconceivable ceremonies of some devilish initiation. He was its spoiled and pampered favorite. Ivory? I should think so. Heaps of it, stacks of it. The old

French addresses: adresses. anchors: ancre. appetites: appétits. atrocious: atroce. behold: voilà, voici, apercevoir, voir. butcher: boucher, abattre, égorger, massacrer. caressed: caressé. consumed: consomma, consommai, consommé, consommèrent, consommâmes, consommas, consommâtes, consumèrent,

consuma, consumâmes, consumai. devilish: diabolique, diablement. favorite: favori. flame: flamme, flamber. fortitude: courage. frontal: frontal. impalpable: impalpable. impressively: de manière impressionnante, de façon impressionnante. jabber: jabotage, jacasser. lingers: traîne.

moored: en stationnement à flot. nervousness: nervosité. pampered: choyé, choyas, choyâmes, choyai, choyâtes, choya, choyèrent, dorloté, dorlotai, dorlotâtes, dorlota. specimen: spécimen, échantillon. spoiled: gâté. stacks: piles. veins: veines, nervure. vibration: vibration, trépidation, frisson. withered: flétri, fané.

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mud shanty was bursting with it. You would think there was not a single tusk left either above or below the ground in the whole country. `Mostly fossil,' the manager %had remarked disparagingly. It was no more fossil than I am; but they call it fossil when it is dug up. It appears these niggers do bury the tusks sometimes--but evidently they couldn't bury this parcel deep enough to save the gifted Mr. Kurtz from his fate. We filled the steamboat with it, and had to pile a lot on the deck. Thus he could see and enjoy as long as he could see, because the appreciation of this favor had remained with him to the last. You should have heard him say, `My ivory.' Oh yes, I heard him. `My Intended, my ivory, my station, my river, my--' everything belonged to him. It made me hold my breath in expectation of hearing the wilderness burst into a prodigious peal of laughter that would shake the fixed stars in their places. Everything belonged to him-but that was a trifle. The thing was to know what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own. That was the reflection that made you creepy all over. It was impossible--it was not good for one either--trying to imagine. He had taken a high seat amongst the devils of the land-- I mean literally. You can't understand. How could you?-- with solid pavement under your feet, surrounded by kind neighbors ready to cheer you or to fall on you, stepping delicately between the butcher and the policeman, in the holy terror of scandal and gallows and lunatic asylums--how can you imagine what particular region of the first ages a man's untrammeled feet may take him into by the way of solitude--utter solitude without a policeman-- by the way of silence, utter silence, where no warning voice of a kind neighbor can be heard whispering of public opinion? These little things make all the great difference. When they are gone you must fall back upon your own innate strength, upon your own capacity for faithfulness. Of course you may be too much of a fool to go wrong-too dull even to know you are being assaulted by the powers of darkness. I take it, no fool ever made a bargain for his soul with the devil: the fool is too much of a fool, or the devil too much of a devil-- I don't know which. Or you may be such a thunderingly exalted creature as to be altogether deaf and blind to anything but heavenly sights and sounds. Then the earth for you is only a standing place-- and whether to be like this is your loss or your gain I won't

French appreciation: appréciation, estimation. assaulted: assailli. bury: enterrer, enterre, enterres, enterrez, enterrons, enterrent, inhumer, ensevelir, inhumons, inhumez, inhumes. cheer: acclamation, acclamer, applaudir. delicately: de manière délicate, de façon délicate. disparagingly: de manière désobligeante, de façon

désobligeante. dug: creusé, creusâmes, creusèrent, creusa, creusai, creusas, creusâtes. expectation: espérance, expectative, espérance mathématique. faithfulness: fidélité. favor: faveur, grâce, service, complaisance, favoriser. fossil: fossile. gallows: potence, gibet. innate: inné, naturel, congénital. lunatic: aliéné, fou.

neighbor: voisin, prochain. parcel: paquet, colis, lot, parcelle. peal: tinter, sonner. prodigious: prodigieux. shanty: baraque. sights: chercheur. thunderingly: de manière tonnerre, de façon tonnerre. trifle: bagatelle, babiole. tusk: défense. utter: répandre, émettre, proférer, prononcer.

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pretend to say. But most of us are neither one nor the other. The earth for us is a place to live in, where we must put up with sights, with sounds, with smells too, by Jove!--breathe %dead hippo, so to speak, and not be contaminated. And there, don't you see? Your strength comes in, the faith in your ability for the digging of unostentatious holes to bury the stuff in--your power of devotion, not to yourself, but to an obscure, back-breaking business. And that's difficult enough. Mind, I am not trying to excuse or even explain--I am trying to account to myself for--for--Mr. Kurtz-- for the shade of Mr. Kurtz. This initiated wraith from the back of Nowhere honored me with its amazing confidence before it vanished altogether. This was because it could speak English to me. The original Kurtz had been educated partly in England, and--as he was good enough to say himself--his sympathies were in the right place. His mother was half-English, his father was half-French. All Europe contributed to the making of Kurtz; and byand-by I learned that, most appropriately, the International Society for the Suppression of Savage Customs had intrusted him with the making of a report, for its future guidance. And he had written it too. I've seen it. I've read it. It was eloquent, vibrating with eloquence, but too high-strung, I think. Seventeen pages of close writing he had found time for! But this must have been before his- let us say--nerves, went wrong, and caused him to preside at certain midnight dances ending with unspeakable rites, which--as far as I reluctantly gathered from what I heard at various times-- were offered up to him--do you understand?--to Mr. Kurtz himself. But it was a beautiful piece of writing. The opening paragraph, however, in the light of later information, strikes me now as ominous. He began with the argument that we whites, from the point of development we had arrived at, `must necessarily appear to them [savages] in the nature of supernatural beings--we approach them with the might as of a deity,' and so on, and so on. `By the simple exercise of our will we can exert a power for good practically unbounded,' &c., &c. From that point he soared and took me with him. The peroration was magnificent, though difficult to remember, you know. It gave me the notion of an exotic Immensity ruled by an august Benevolence. It made me tingle with enthusiasm. This was the unbounded power of eloquence--of words-- of burning noble words. There were

French appropriately: proprement, de façon convenable, de manière convenable. contaminated: contaminé, contaminai, contaminèrent, contamina, contaminâmes, contaminâtes, contaminas, souillé. digging: creusant, creusement. eloquence: éloquence. eloquent: éloquent. exert: pratiquer, pratiquent, pratiques, pratiquez, pratique, pratiquons, efforcer, exercer.

exotic: exotique. honored: honoré. initiated: initié. obscure: obscur, obscurcir. preside: présider, préside, présides, présidez, présidons, président. pretend: feindre, feins, feignons, feignent, feignez, prétexter, prétendre, prétextons, prétexte, prétextent, prétextes. reluctantly: à regret, de manière peu disposée, à contrecœur, de façon peu

disposée. shade: ombre, nuance, teinte, ombrage, ombrager, nuancer, ombrer. strikes: grèves, asséne. tingle: picotement. unbounded: illimité. unostentatious: simple, sans ostentation. unspeakable: indicible. vibrating: vibrant. wraith: apparition.

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no%practical hints to interrupt the magic current of phrases, unless a kind of note at the foot of the last page, scrawled evidently much later, in an unsteady hand, may be regarded as the exposition of a method. It was very simple, and at the end of that moving appeal to every altruistic sentiment it blazed at you, luminous and terrifying, like a flash of lightning in a serene sky: `Exterminate all the brutes!' The curious part was that he had apparently forgotten all about that valuable postscriptum, because, later on, when he in a sense came to himself, he repeatedly entreated me to take good care of `my pamphlet' (he called it), as it was sure to have in the future a good influence upon his career. I had full information about all these things, and, besides, as it turned out, I was to have the care of his memory. I've done enough for it to give me the indisputable right to lay it, if I choose, for an everlasting rest in the dust-bin of progress, amongst all the sweepings and, figuratively speaking, all the dead cats of civilization. But then, you see, I can't choose. He won't be forgotten. Whatever he was, he was not common. He had the power to charm or frighten rudimentary souls into an aggravated witch-dance in his honor; he could also fill the small souls of the pilgrims with bitter misgivings: he had one devoted friend at least, and he had conquered one soul in the world that was neither rudimentary nor tainted with self-seeking. No; I can't forget him, though I am not prepared to affirm the fellow was exactly worth the life we lost in getting to him. I missed my late helmsman awfully,--I missed him even while his body was still lying in the pilot-house. Perhaps you will think it passing strange this regret for a savage who was no more account than a grain of sand in a black Sahara. Well, don't you see, he had done something, he had steered; for months I had him at my back--a help--an instrument. It was a kind of partnership. He steered for me--I had to look after him, I worried about his deficiencies, and thus a subtle bond had been created, of which I only became aware when it was suddenly broken. And the intimate profundity of that look he gave me when he received his hurt remains to this day in my memory--like a claim of distant kinship affirmed in a supreme moment. "Poor fool! If he had only left that shutter alone. He had no restraint, no restraint--just like Kurtz--a tree swayed by the wind. As soon as I had put on a

French affirm: affirmer, affirment, affirmons, affirmez, affirme, affirmes, assurer, certifier, garantir. affirmed: affirmé, affirma, affirmai, affirmas, affirmâtes, affirmèrent, affirmâmes. altruistic: altruiste. deficiencies: déficiences. entreated: supplié, supplièrent, suppliâtes, supplias, suppliâmes, suppliai, supplia, imploré, implorâtes, imploras, implorâmes.

exposition: exposition. figuratively: de manière figurative, de façon figurative. frighten: effrayer, effraie, effraies, effraient, effrayons, effrayez, redouter, redoutez, redoutons, redoutes, redoutent. hints: allusions. indisputable: indiscutable, incontestable. interrupt: interrompre, interruption. pamphlet: brochure, pamphlet.

profundity: profondeur. rudimentary: rudimentaire. scrawled: griffonnai, griffonna, griffonnèrent, griffonnâtes, griffonnâmes, gribouillâtes, gribouilla, gribouillas, gribouillâmes, gribouillai, gribouillèrent. serene: serein, tranquille. sweepings: balayures. tainted: corrompu. terrifying: terrifiant. unsteady: instable.

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dry%pair of slippers, I dragged him out, after first jerking the spear out of his side, which operation I confess I performed with my eyes shut tight. His heels leaped together over the little door-step; his shoulders were pressed to my breast; I hugged him from behind desperately. Oh! he was heavy, heavy; heavier than any man on earth, I should imagine. Then without more ado I tipped him overboard. The current snatched him as though he had been a wisp of grass, and I saw the body roll over twice before I lost sight of it for ever. All the pilgrims and the manager were then congregated on the awning-deck about the pilothouse, chattering at each other like a flock of excited magpies, and there was a scandalized murmur at my heartless promptitude. What they wanted to keep that body hanging about for I can't guess. Embalm it, maybe. But I had also heard another, and a very ominous, murmur on the deck below. My friends the wood-cutters were likewise scandalized, and with a better show of reason-though I admit that the reason itself was quite inadmissible. Oh, quite! I had made up my mind that if my late helmsman was to be eaten, the fishes alone should have him. He had been a very second-rate helmsman while alive, but now he was dead he might have become a first-class temptation, and possibly cause some startling trouble. Besides, I was anxious to take the wheel, the man in pink pyjamas showing himself a hopeless duffer at the business. "This I did directly the simple funeral was over. We were going half-speed, keeping right in the middle of the stream, and I listened to the talk about me. They had given up Kurtz, they had given up the station; Kurtz was dead, and the station had been burnt--and so on--and so on. The red-haired pilgrim was beside himself with the thought that at least this poor Kurtz had been properly revenged. `Say! We must have made a glorious slaughter of them in the bush. Eh? What do you think? Say?' He positively danced, the bloodthirsty little gingery beggar. And he had nearly fainted when he saw the wounded man! I could not help saying, `You made a glorious lot of smoke, anyhow.' I had seen, from the way the tops of the bushes rustled and flew, that almost all the shots had gone too high. You can't hit anything unless you take aim and fire from the shoulder; but these chaps fired from the hip with their eyes shut. The retreat, I

French beggar: mendiant, gueux. bloodthirsty: sanguinaire. confess: confesser, avouer, confessent, confessons, confessez, confesses, confesse, avouent, avouons, avoues, avoue. congregated: réunit, réunis, réuni, réunîmes, réunîtes, réunirent. danced: dansé. door-step: seuil de porte. duffer: cancre. embalm: embaumer, embaument,

embaumons, embaumez, embaume, embaumes. excited: excitas, excitâtes, excité, excitai, excitèrent, excita, excitâmes, hérissèrent, hérissé, hérissâtes, hérissas. fainted: évanoui. flock: troupeau, bourre, tontisse, flocon, floc. heartless: sans coeur. hip: hanche. inadmissible: irrecevable,

inadmissible. scandalized: scandalisâtes, scandalisèrent, scandalisas, scandalisâmes, scandalisai, scandalisa, scandalisé. slaughter: abattre, abattage, massacre, tuerie, carnage. snatched: saisi. tipped: pourvu d'une plaquette, embouté. tops: tête de distillation. wisp: brin.

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maintained-- and I was right--was caused by the screeching of the steam-whistle. Upon this they forgot Kurtz, and began to howl at me with indignant protests. "The manager stood by the wheel murmuring confidentially about the necessity of getting well away down the river before dark at all events, when I saw in the distance a clearing on the river-side and the outlines of some sort of building. `What's this?' I asked. He clapped his hands in wonder. `The station!' he cried. I edged in at once, still going half-speed.% "Through my glasses I saw the slope of a hill interspersed with rare trees and perfectly free from undergrowth. A long decaying building on the summit was half buried in the high grass; the large holes in the peaked roof gaped black from afar; the jungle and the woods made a background. There was no inclosure or fence of any kind; but there had been one apparently, for near the house half-adozen slim posts remained in a row, roughly trimmed, and with their upper ends ornamented with round carved balls. The rails, or whatever there had been between, had disappeared. Of course the forest surrounded all that. The riverbank was clear, and on the water-side I saw a white man under a hat like a cartwheel beckoning persistently with his whole arm. Examining the edge of the forest above and below, I was almost certain I could see movements--human forms gliding here and there. I steamed past prudently, then stopped the engines and let her drift down. The man on the shore began to shout, urging us to land. `We have been attacked,' screamed the manager. `I know--I know. It's all right,' yelled back the other, as cheerful as you please. `Come along. It's all right. I am glad.' "His aspect reminded me of something I had seen--something funny I had seen somewhere. As I maneuvered to get alongside, I was asking myself, `What does this fellow look like?' Suddenly I got it. He looked like a harlequin. His clothes had been made of some stuff that was brown holland probably, but it was covered with patches all over, with bright patches, blue, red, and yellow,-patches on the back, patches on front, patches on elbows, on knees; colored binding round his jacket, scarlet edging at the bottom of his trousers; and the sunshine made him look extremely gay and wonderfully neat withal, because

French carved: ciselâmes, ciselas, ciselâtes, ciselé, taillâmes, taillèrent, taillâtes, taillas, tailla, taillai, ciselèrent. cheerful: gai, joyeux. clapped: claqués, claquées, claquâmes, claquai, claqua. colored: coloré. confidentially: de manière confidentielle, de façon confidentielle. edged: déligné. edging: lisière, bord, bordure,

bordage. harlequin: arlequin. indignant: indigné. interspersed: semèrent, répandîtes, sema, semâmes, semas, semé, répandit, répandu, semâtes, parsemai, répandis. maneuvered: manoeuvré. murmuring: murmurer, murmure. ornamented: orné. outlines: profile. persistently: de manière persistante,

de façon persistante. protests: proteste. prudently: de manière prudente, de façon prudente, prudemment. rails: entretoises de montants, supports de broches, rail. scarlet: écarlate. trimmed: paré, taillé, rogné. urging: exhortant. wonderfully: merveilleusement, de manière merveilleuse, de façon merveilleuse.

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you could see how beautifully all this patching had been done. A beardless, boyish face, very fair, no features to speak of, nose peeling, little blue eyes, smiles and frowns chasing each other over that open countenance like sunshine and shadow on a windswept plain. `Look out, captain!' he cried; `there's a snag lodged in here last night.' What! Another snag? I confess I swore shamefully. I had nearly holed my cripple, to finish off that charming trip. The harlequin on the bank turned his little pug nose up to me. `You English?' he asked, all smiles. `Are you?' I shouted from the wheel. The smiles vanished, and he shook his head as if sorry for my disappointment. Then he brightened up. `Never mind!' he cried encouragingly. `Are we in time?' I asked. `He is up there,' he replied, with a toss of the head up the hill, and becoming gloomy all of a sudden. His face was like the autumn sky, overcast one moment and bright the next.% "When the manager, escorted by the pilgrims, all of them armed to the teeth, had gone to the house, this chap came on board. `I say, I don't like this. These natives are in the bush,' I said. He assured me earnestly it was all right. `They are simple people,' he added; `well, I am glad you came. It took me all my time to keep them off.' `But you said it was all right,' I cried. `Oh, they meant no harm,' he said; and as I stared he corrected himself, `Not exactly.' Then vivaciously, `My faith, your pilot-house wants a clean up!' In the next breath he advised me to keep enough steam on the boiler to blow the whistle in case of any trouble. `One good screech will do more for you than all your rifles. They are simple people,' he repeated. He rattled away at such a rate he quite overwhelmed me. He seemed to be trying to make up for lots of silence, and actually hinted, laughing, that such was the case. `Don't you talk with Mr. Kurtz?' I said. `You don't talk with that man--you listen to him,' he exclaimed with severe exaltation. `But now--' He waved his arm, and in the twinkling of an eye was in the uttermost depths of despondency. In a moment he came up again with a jump, possessed himself of both my hands, shook them continuously, while he gabbled: `Brother sailor . . . honor . . . pleasure . . . delight . . . introduce myself . . . Russian . . . son of an arch-priest . . . Government of Tambov . . . What? Tobacco! English tobacco; the excellent English tobacco! Now, that's brotherly. Smoke? Where's a sailor that does not smoke?'

French beardless: imberbe. boyish: puéril, de garçon, enfantin. brightened: avivâtes, éclairci, éclaircîtes, éclaircit, éclaircis, éclaircirent, éclaircîmes, avivé, avivas, avivâmes, avivai. brotherly: fraternel. chasing: ciselure, filetage au peigne, chassant. continuously: continuellement, de manière continue, de façon continue. corrected: corrigé.

countenance: encourager. despondency: découragement. encouragingly: de manière encourageante, de façon encourageante. escorted: escorté. exaltation: exaltation. lodged: logé. overcast: couvert. overwhelmed: comblé, comblai, comblâmes, comblèrent, comblas, comblâtes, combla, abreuvé,

abreuvâtes, abreuvas, abreuvâmes. patching: correction de programme, placage, emploi partiel, retouche, retorchage, rapiécer, raccommodage, rapiéçage, redistribution en agrégats. peeling: desquamation, écaillement. pug: carlin, hourder, malaxeur étireur. shamefully: de manière honteuse, de façon honteuse. twinkling: scintillement. vivaciously: de manière vivace, de façon vivace.

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"The %pipe soothed him, and gradually I made out he had run away from school, had gone to sea in a Russian ship; ran away again; served some time in English ships; was now reconciled with the arch-priest. He made a point of that. `But when one is young one must see things, gather experience, ideas; enlarge the mind.' `Here!' I interrupted. `You can never tell! Here I have met Mr. Kurtz,' he said, youthfully solemn and reproachful. I held my tongue after that. It appears he had persuaded a Dutch trading-house on the coast to fit him out with stores and goods, and had started for the interior with a light heart, and no more idea of what would happen to him than a baby. He had been wandering about that river for nearly two years alone, cut off from everybody and everything. `I am not so young as I look. I am twenty-five,' he said. `At first old Van Shuyten would tell me to go to the devil,' he narrated with keen enjoyment; `but I stuck to him, and talked and talked, till at last he got afraid I would talk the hind-leg off his favorite dog, so he gave me some cheap things and a few guns, and told me he hoped he would never see my face again. Good old Dutchman, Van Shuyten. I've sent him one small lot of ivory a year ago, so that he can't call me a little thief when I get back. I hope he got it. And for the rest I don't care. I had some wood stacked for you. That was my old house. Did you see?' "I gave him Towson's book. He made as though he would kiss me, but restrained himself. `The only book I had left, and I thought I had lost it,' he said, looking at it ecstatically. `So many accidents happen to a man going about alone, you know. Canoes get upset sometimes--and sometimes you've got to clear out so quick when the people get angry.' He thumbed the pages. `You made notes in Russian?' I asked. He nodded. `I thought they were written in cipher,' I said. He laughed, then became serious. `I had lots of trouble to keep these people off,' he said. `Did they want to kill you?' I asked. `Oh no!' he cried, and checked himself. `Why did they attack us?' I pursued. He hesitated, then said shamefacedly, `They don't want him to go.' `Don't they?' I said, curiously. He nodded a nod full of mystery and wisdom. `I tell you,' he cried, `this man has enlarged my mind.' He opened his arms wide, staring at me with his little blue eyes that were perfectly round."

French curiously: avec curiosité, de manière curieuse, de façon curieuse. ecstatically: de manière extatique, de façon extatique. enjoyment: jouissance, usufruit. enlarge: agrandir, agrandissons, agrandissez, agrandis, agrandissent, étendre, accroître, augmenter, amplifier. enlarged: agrandi, agrandirent, agrandîmes, agrandîtes, agrandis, agrandit.

hind-leg: jambe postérieure. interior: intérieur. narrated: racontai, racontâmes, racontas, racontâtes, raconta, racontèrent, Raconté, contas, contèrent, conta, contai. nod: signe de tête. reconciled: réconcilias, réconciliâtes, réconcilia, réconciliai, réconcilié, réconcilièrent, réconciliâmes. reproachful: de reproche, réprobateur. restrained: retint, retînmes, retins,

retîntes, retinrent, retenu. shamefacedly: de manière timide, de façon timide. solemn: solennel. soothed: calmèrent, rassura, rassurai, rassurâmes, rassuras, rassurâtes, rassurèrent, calmâtes, abattîtes, rassuré, calmâmes. thief: voleur. wisdom: sagesse, intelligence. youthfully: de façon jeune, de manière jeune.

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"I looked at him, lost in astonishment. There he was before me, in motley, as though he had absconded from a troupe of mimes, enthusiastic, fabulous. His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded in getting so far, how he had managed to remain-- why he did not instantly disappear. `I went a little farther,' he said, `then still a little farther--till I had gone so far that I don't know how I'll ever get back. Never mind. Plenty time. I can manage. You take Kurtz away quick--quick--I tell you.' The glamour of youth enveloped his particolored rags, his destitution, his loneliness, the essential desolation of his futile wanderings. For months--for years--his life hadn't been worth a day's purchase; and there he was gallantly, thoughtlessly alive, to all appearance indestructible solely by the virtue of his few years and of his unreflecting audacity. I was seduced into something like admiration-- like envy. Glamour urged him on, glamour kept him unscathed. He surely wanted nothing from the wilderness but space to breathe in and to push on through. His need was to exist, and to move onwards at the greatest possible risk, and with a maximum of privation. If the absolutely pure, uncalculating, unpractical spirit of adventure had ever ruled a human being, it ruled this be-patched youth. I almost envied him the possession of this modest and clear flame. It seemed to have consumed all thought of self so completely, that, even while he was talking to you, you forgot that it was he--the man before your eyes--who had gone through

French adventure: aventure. astonishment: étonnement, surprise. destitution: indigence, misère. disappear: disparaître, disparaissez, disparaissent, disparais, disparaissons. envied: envié, envia, enviai, envièrent, enviâmes, envias, enviâtes. envy: envie, envier, enviez, envions, envient, envies, jalousie. existed: existâtes, existas, existai, existâmes, existé, exista, existèrent.

forgot: oubliâtes, oublias, oubliai, oublièrent, oubliâmes, oublia. gallantly: de manière vaillante, de façon vaillante. glamour: prestige, gloire. improbable: improbable. indestructible: indestructible. instantly: directement, aussitôt, d'abord, tout d'abord, à l'instant, de manière instante, de façon instante. loneliness: solitude. motley: bariolé, bigarré.

onwards: en avant. privation: privation. seduced: séduisîmes, séduisîtes, séduisirent, séduisis, séduisit, séduit, dévoyé, dévoyâtes, dévoyas, dévoyâmes, dévoyai. thoughtlessly: de manière irréfléchie, de façon irréfléchie. troupe: troupe. unpractical: peu pratique. unscathed: indemne. wanderings: pérégrinations.

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these things. I did not envy him his devotion to Kurtz, though. He had not meditated over it. It came to him, and he accepted it with a sort of eager fatalism. I must say that to me it appeared about the most dangerous thing in every way he had come upon so far.% "They had come together unavoidably, like two ships becalmed near each other, and lay rubbing sides at last. I suppose Kurtz wanted an audience, because on a certain occasion, when encamped in the forest, they had talked all night, or more probably Kurtz had talked. `We talked of everything,' he said, quite transported at the recollection. `I forgot there was such a thing as sleep. The night did not seem to last an hour. Everything! Everything! . . . Of love too.' `Ah, he talked to you of love!' I said, much amused. `It isn't what you think,' he cried, almost passionately. `It was in general. He made me see things--things.' "He threw his arms up. We were on deck at the time, and the headman of my wood-cutters, lounging near by, turned upon him his heavy and glittering eyes. I looked around, and I don't know why, but I assure you that never, never before, did this land, this river, this jungle, the very arch of this blazing sky, appear to me so hopeless and so dark, so impenetrable to human thought, so pitiless to human weakness. `And, ever since, you have been with him, of course?' I said. "On the contrary. It appears their intercourse had been very much broken by various causes. He had, as he informed me proudly, managed to nurse Kurtz through two illnesses (he alluded to it as you would to some risky feat), but as a rule Kurtz wandered alone, far in the depths of the forest. `Very often coming to this station, I had to wait days and days before he would turn up,' he said. `Ah, it was worth waiting for!--sometimes.' `What was he doing? exploring or what?' I asked. `Oh yes, of course;' he had discovered lots of villages, a lake too--he did not know exactly in what direction; it was dangerous to inquire too much-- but mostly his expeditions had been for ivory. `But he had no goods to trade with by that time,' I objected. `There's a good lot of cartridges left even yet,' he answered, looking away. `To speak plainly, he raided the country,' I said. He nodded. `Not alone, surely!' He muttered something about the villages round

French amused: amusé, amusai, amusa, amusâmes, amusèrent, amusas, amusâtes. arch: arc, cintre, voûte, arche, arcade. becalmed: encalminé. blazing: éclatant, étincelant, griffage, en flammes, flamboyer, en feu, enflammé. contrary: contraire, opposé, contradictoire. eager: avide, désireux. encamped: campé, campa, campai,

campâmes, campas, campâtes, campèrent. expeditions: expéditions. exploring: explorant, fouillant, recherchant, explorer. fatalism: fatalisme. meditated: méditas, méditâtes, médita, méditèrent, méditai, méditâmes, médité, songeas, songèrent, songeâmes, songeai. passionately: de manière passionnée, de façon passionnée.

proudly: fièrement, de manière fire, de façon fire. recollection: souvenir, mémoire. risky: risqué, périlleux, hasardeux, aléatoire. rubbing: frottement, frottage. transported: transporté. unavoidably: de manière inévitable, de façon inévitable. wandered: erra, errèrent, errâtes, errai, errâmes, erras, erré, vaguâmes, vaguèrent, vagué, vaguas.

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that lake. `Kurtz got %the tribe to follow him, did he?' I suggested. He fidgeted a little. `They adored him,' he said. The tone of these words was so extraordinary that I looked at him searchingly. It was curious to see his mingled eagerness and reluctance to speak of Kurtz. The man filled his life, occupied his thoughts, swayed his emotions. `What can you expect?' he burst out; `he came to them with thunder and lightning, you know-- and they had never seen anything like it--and very terrible. He could be very terrible. You can't judge Mr. Kurtz as you would an ordinary man. No, no, no! Now--just to give you an idea-- I don't mind telling you, he wanted to shoot me too one day-- but I don't judge him.' `Shoot you!' I cried. `What for?' `Well, I had a small lot of ivory the chief of that village near my house gave me. You see I used to shoot game for them. Well, he wanted it, and wouldn't hear reason. He declared he would shoot me unless I gave him the ivory and then cleared out of the country, because he could do so, and had a fancy for it, and there was nothing on earth to prevent him killing whom he jolly well pleased. And it was true too. I gave him the ivory. What did I care! But I didn't clear out. No, no. I couldn't leave him. I had to be careful, of course, till we got friendly again for a time. He had his second illness then. Afterwards I had to keep out of the way; but I didn't mind. He was living for the most part in those villages on the lake. When he came down to the river, sometimes he would take to me, and sometimes it was better for me to be careful. This man suffered too much. He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away. When I had a chance I begged him to try and leave while there was time; I offered to go back with him. And he would say yes, and then he would remain; go off on another ivory hunt; disappear for weeks; forget himself amongst these people-- forget himself--you know.' `Why! he's mad,' I said. He protested indignantly. Mr. Kurtz couldn't be mad. If I had heard him talk, only two days ago, I wouldn't dare hint at such a thing. . . . I had taken up my binoculars while we talked and was looking at the shore, sweeping the limit of the forest at each side and at the back of the house. The consciousness of there being people in that bush, so silent, so quiet--as silent and quiet as the ruined house on the hill-- made me uneasy. There was no sign on the face of nature of this amazing tale that was not so much told as suggested to me in desolate exclamations, completed by

French adored: adoré, adorâtes, adoras, adorèrent, adorai, adora, adorâmes. amazing: étonnant, stupéfiant, abasourdissant, surprenant. begged: mendièrent, mendia, mendiai, mendiâmes, mendias, mendiâtes, Mendié. binoculars: jumelles, lunette. burst: crever, éclater, salve, rafale, explosion, choc d'ionisation, éclatement, bouffée. curious: curieux, intéressant, singulier.

dare: oser, aventurer, ose, osons, osez, oses, osent, aventurez, aventures, aventurent, aventure. emotions: émotions. fancy: imaginer, fantaisie, songer, rêver éveillé, aimer. hated: détesté. hint: insinuer, faire allusion, conseil, allusion. indignantly: de manière indignée, de façon indignée. killing: meurtre, abattage.

mingled: mélangea, mêlèrent, mêlâtes, mêlas, mélangèrent, mélangeâtes, mélangeas, mélangeai, mêlâmes, mêlai, mêla. protested: protestées, protestés, protesta, protesté, protestée. reluctance: réluctance, répugnance. shoot: tirer, tires, tire, tirent, tirez, tirons, pousse, glissière. sweeping: balayage, balayant. tale: conte, récit, relation. thunder: tonnerre, tonner, retenir.

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shrugs, in interrupted %phrases, in hints ending in deep sighs. The woods were unmoved, like a mask--heavy, like the closed door of a prison--they looked with their air of hidden knowledge, of patient expectation, of unapproachable silence. The Russian was explaining to me that it was only lately that Mr. Kurtz had come down to the river, bringing along with him all the fighting men of that lake tribe. He had been absent for several months--getting himself adored, I suppose- and had come down unexpectedly, with the intention to all appearance of making a raid either across the river or down stream. Evidently the appetite for more ivory had got the better of the-- what shall I say?--less material aspirations. However he had got much worse suddenly. `I heard he was lying helpless, and so I came up-- took my chance,' said the Russian. `Oh, he is bad, very bad.' I directed my glass to the house. There were no signs of life, but there was the ruined roof, the long mud wall peeping above the grass, with three little square window-holes, no two of the same size; all this brought within reach of my hand, as it were. And then I made a brusque movement, and one of the remaining posts of that vanished fence leaped up in the field of my glass. You remember I told you I had been struck at the distance by certain attempts at ornamentation, rather remarkable in the ruinous aspect of the place. Now I had suddenly a nearer view, and its first result was to make me throw my head back as if before a blow. Then I went carefully from post to post with my glass, and I saw my mistake. These round knobs were not ornamental but symbolic; they were expressive and puzzling, striking and disturbing-- food for thought and also for the vultures if there had been any looking down from the sky; but at all events for such ants as were industrious enough to ascend the pole. They would have been even more impressive, those heads on the stakes, if their faces had not been turned to the house. Only one, the first I had made out, was facing my way. I was not so shocked as you may think. The start back I had given was really nothing but a movement of surprise. I had expected to see a knob of wood there, you know. I returned deliberately to the first I had seen--and there it was, black, dried, sunken, with closed eyelids,--a head that seemed to sleep at the top of that pole, and, with the shrunken dry lips showing a narrow white line of the teeth,

French absent: absent. appetite: appétit. ascend: monter, monte, montes, montons, montez, montent, se soulever. brusque: brusque, à la hussarde. dried: sec, séché. ending: fin, bout, finissant. evidently: évidemment, de manière évidente, de façon évidente. explaining: expliquant. expressive: expressif.

fence: barrière, clôture, cloison de décrochage, palissade, faire de l'escrime. helpless: abandonné, impuissant, délaissé, faible. industrious: laborieux, appliqué, assidu, travailleur, industrieux. knob: bouton, pommeau. lately: dernièrement, de manière tarde, de façon tardive, récemment. ornamentation: ornementation. puzzling: curieux, mystérieux.

raid: raid, razzia, rafle. ruinous: ruineux. shocked: choqué. shrunken: rabougri, rétréci. stakes: prix stake. striking: frappant. symbolic: symbolique. unapproachable: inaccessible, inabordable. unexpectedly: de façon inattendue, de manière inattendue, inopinément. unmoved: indifférent.

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was smiling too, smiling continuously at some endless and jocose dream of that eternal slumber.% "I am not disclosing any trade secrets. In fact the manager said afterwards that Mr. Kurtz's methods had ruined the district. I have no opinion on that point, but I want you clearly to understand that there was nothing exactly profitable in these heads being there. They only showed that Mr. Kurtz lacked restraint in the gratification of his various lusts, that there was something wanting in him-some small matter which, when the pressing need arose, could not be found under his magnificent eloquence. Whether he knew of this deficiency himself I can't say. I think the knowledge came to him at last--only at the very last. But the wilderness had found him out early, and had taken on him a terrible vengeance for the fantastic invasion. I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took counsel with this great solitude--and the whisper had proved irresistibly fascinating. It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core. . . . I put down the glass, and the head that had appeared near enough to be spoken to seemed at once to have leaped away from me into inaccessible distance. "The admirer of Mr. Kurtz was a bit crestfallen. In a hurried, indistinct voice he began to assure me he had not dared to take these--say, symbols--down. He was not afraid of the natives; they would not stir till Mr. Kurtz gave the word. His ascendency was extraordinary. The camps of these people surrounded the place, and the chiefs came every day to see him. They would crawl. . . . `I don't want to know anything of the ceremonies used when approaching Mr. Kurtz,' I shouted. Curious, this feeling that came over me that such details would be more intolerable than those heads drying on the stakes under Mr. Kurtz's windows. After all, that was only a savage sight, while I seemed at one bound to have been transported into some lightless region of subtle horrors, where pure, uncomplicated savagery was a positive relief, being something that had a right to exist--obviously-- in the sunshine. The young man looked at me with surprise. I suppose it did not occur to him Mr. Kurtz was no idol of mine. He forgot I hadn't heard any of these splendid monologues on, what was it? on love,

French admirer: admirateur, admiratrice. assure: assurer, assure, assures, assurons, assurez, assurent, certifier, garantir, garantis, garantissent, garantissez. camps: campe. chiefs: chefs. counsel: conseil, conseiller, avis, avocat, défenseur. dared: osé, osa, osai, osèrent, osâtes, osâmes, osas, aventurèrent, aventurâtes, aventura, aventuras.

deficiency: déficience, carence, insuffisance, manque, défaut. disclosing: divulguant. drying: séchage, dessiccation, séchant. eternal: éternel, perpétuel. fantastic: fantastique. gratification: satisfaction. hurried: hâtif, pressé, dépêché. inaccessible: inaccessible. indistinct: confus, touffu, trouble, indistinct. irresistibly: de manière irrésistible, de

façon irrésistible, irrésistiblement. jocose: enjoué. lacked: manquai, manquèrent, manquâtes, manquas, manqua, manquâmes, manqué. loudly: fort, à haute voix, de manière forte, de façon forte, bruyamment. restraint: contrainte. sunshine: soleil, lumière du soleil. uncomplicated: complications, simple. whisper: chuchoter, chuchotement, murmurer.

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justice, %conduct of life--or what not. If it had come to crawling before Mr. Kurtz, he crawled as much as the veriest savage of them all. I had no idea of the conditions, he said: these heads were the heads of rebels. I shocked him excessively by laughing. Rebels! What would be the next definition I was to hear? There had been enemies, criminals, workers--and these were rebels. Those rebellious heads looked very subdued to me on their sticks. `You don't know how such a life tries a man like Kurtz,' cried Kurtz's last disciple. `Well, and you?' I said. `I! I! I am a simple man. I have no great thoughts. I want nothing from anybody. How can you compare me to . . .?' His feelings were too much for speech, and suddenly he broke down. `I don't understand,' he groaned. `I've been doing my best to keep him alive, and that's enough. I had no hand in all this. I have no abilities. There hasn't been a drop of medicine or a mouthful of invalid food for months here. He was shamefully abandoned. A man like this, with such ideas. Shamefully! Shamefully! I--I-- haven't slept for the last ten nights. . . .' "His voice lost itself in the calm of the evening. The long shadows of the forest had slipped down hill while we talked, had gone far beyond the ruined hovel, beyond the symbolic row of stakes. All this was in the gloom, while we down there were yet in the sunshine, and the stretch of the river abreast of the clearing glittered in a still and dazzling splendor, with a murky and overshadowed bend above and below. Not a living soul was seen on the shore. The bushes did not rustle. "Suddenly round the corner of the house a group of men appeared, as though they had come up from the ground. They waded waist-deep in the grass, in a compact body, bearing an improvised stretcher in their midst. Instantly, in the emptiness of the landscape, a cry arose whose shrillness pierced the still air like a sharp arrow flying straight to the very heart of the land; and, as if by enchantment, streams of human beings--of naked human beings--with spears in their hands, with bows, with shields, with wild glances and savage movements, were poured into the clearing by the dark-faced and pensive forest. The bushes

French abilities: capacités. bend: courber, fléchir, coude, courbe, courbure, incliner, ployer, plier, cintrer, virage, baisser. clearing: clairière, dégagement, défrichement, éclaircie. compact: compact, compacter. disciple: disciple. emptiness: vide, vacuité. enchantment: enchantement. excessively: de manière excessive, de façon excessive, excessivement.

improvised: improvisas, improvisâtes, improvisé, improvisai, improvisâmes, improvisèrent, improvisa. invalid: invalide, non valide, non valable, périmé. mouthful: bouchée. murky: ténébreux. pierced: perçâmes, perçai, perçâtes, perça, percèrent, percé, perças. rebellious: rebelle, révolté. rebels: rebelles.

rustle: susurrer, bruissement, froufrouter. shadows: ombres. shrillness: acuité. splendor: splendeur. streams: filières. stretcher: brancard, civière, tendeur, châssis, panneresse. veriest: le plus très. waded: pataugeas, pataugèrent, pataugeâtes, pataugeai, pataugea, pataugé, pataugeâmes.

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shook, the grass swayed for a time, and then everything stood still in attentive immobility.% "`Now, if he does not say the right thing to them we are all done for,' said the Russian at my elbow. The knot of men with the stretcher had stopped too, halfway to the steamer, as if petrified. I saw the man on the stretcher sit up, lank and with an uplifted arm, above the shoulders of the bearers. `Let us hope that the man who can talk so well of love in general will find some particular reason to spare us this time,' I said. I resented bitterly the absurd danger of our situation, as if to be at the mercy of that atrocious phantom had been a dishonoring necessity. I could not hear a sound, but through my glasses I saw the thin arm extended commandingly, the lower jaw moving, the eyes of that apparition shining darkly far in its bony head that nodded with grotesque jerks. Kurtz--Kurtz--that means short in German-- don't it? Well, the name was as true as everything else in his life--and death. He looked at least seven feet long. His covering had fallen off, and his body emerged from it pitiful and appalling as from a winding-sheet. I could see the cage of his ribs all astir, the bones of his arm waving. It was as though an animated image of death carved out of old ivory had been shaking its hand with menaces at a motionless crowd of men made of dark and glittering bronze. I saw him open his mouth wide--it gave him a weirdly voracious aspect, as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men before him. A deep voice reached me faintly. He must have been shouting. He fell back suddenly. The stretcher shook as the bearers staggered forward again, and almost at the same time I noticed that the crowd of savages was vanishing without any perceptible movement of retreat, as if the forest that had ejected these beings so suddenly had drawn them in again as the breath is drawn in a long aspiration. "Some of the pilgrims behind the stretcher carried his arms-- two shot-guns, a heavy rifle, and a light revolver-carbine-- the thunderbolts of that pitiful Jupiter. The manager bent over him murmuring as he walked beside his head. They laid him down in one of the little cabins--just a room for a bed-place and a camp-stool or two, you know. We had brought his belated correspondence, and a lot of torn

French animated: animé, animée. apparition: apparition. aspiration: aspiration, souhait, dépoussiérage. astir: agité. attentive: attentif. belated: tardif. commandingly: de manière ordonnée, de façon ordonnée. ejected: expulsé, expulsèrent, nous éjectâmes, s'éjecta, s'éjecté, expulsas, t'éjectas, expulsâtes, vous éjectâtes,

s'éjectèrent, expulsai. faintly: de manière faible, de façon faible, faiblement. grotesque: grotesque, ubuesque. knot: noeud, nouer, bécasseau maubèche, larme, nodule, nœud lâche. perceptible: perceptible. petrified: pétrifié, pétrifias, pétrifiâtes, pétrifiâmes, pétrifiai, pétrifia, pétrifièrent. pitiful: pitoyable, pauvre, misérable,

malheureux, lamentable. resented: ressenties, ressentirent, ressenti. shining: luisant, brillant. staggered: disposé en quinconce. swallow: hirondelle, avaler, aronde, déglutir, gorgée, hirondelle de cheminée, gober, engloutir. voracious: vorace. waving: ondulation. weirdly: de manière bizarre, de façon bizarre.

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envelopes and open letters littered his bed. His hand roamed feebly amongst these papers. I was struck by the fire of his eyes and the composed languor of his expression. It was not so much the exhaustion of disease. He did not seem in pain. This shadow looked satiated and calm, as though for the moment it had had its fill of all the emotions.% "He rustled one of the letters, and looking straight in my face said, `I am glad.' Somebody had been writing to him about me. These special recommendations were turning up again. The volume of tone he emitted without effort, almost without the trouble of moving his lips, amazed me. A voice! a voice! It was grave, profound, vibrating, while the man did not seem capable of a whisper. However, he had enough strength in him-- factitious no doubt--to very nearly make an end of us, as you shall hear directly. "The manager appeared silently in the doorway; I stepped out at once and he drew the curtain after me. The Russian, eyed curiously by the pilgrims, was staring at the shore. I followed the direction of his glance. "Dark human shapes could be made out in the distance, flitting indistinctly against the gloomy border of the forest, and near the river two bronze figures, leaning on tall spears, stood in the sunlight under fantastic headdresses of spotted skins, warlike and still in statuesque repose. And from right to left along the lighted shore moved a wild and gorgeous apparition of a woman. "She walked with measured steps, draped in striped and fringed cloths, treading the earth proudly, with a slight jingle and flash of barbarous ornaments. She carried her head high; her hair was done in the shape of a helmet; she had brass leggings to the knee, brass wire gauntlets to the elbow, a crimson spot on her tawny cheek, innumerable necklaces of glass beads on her neck; bizarre things, charms, gifts of witch-men, that hung about her, glittered and trembled at every step. She must have had the value of several elephant tusks upon her. She was savage and superb, wild-eyed and magnificent; there was something ominous and stately in her deliberate progress. And in the hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the fecund and mysterious life seemed to look at

French barbarous: barbare. composed: composé, composa, composèrent, composâmes, composai, composâtes, composas, tranquille, calme. crimson: cramoisi. curtain: rideau. elephant: éléphant. emitted: émis, émit, émîtes, émîmes, émirent. envelopes: enveloppes. exhaustion: épuisement.

eyed: embryonné. factitious: artificiel. flitting: voltigeant, flirtant. gauntlets: crispins. gorgeous: magnifique. helmet: casque. hush: faire taire, silence. indistinctly: de manière trouble, de façon trouble, indistinctement. jingle: tinter, sonal. languor: langueur. leggings: guêtres.

necklaces: colliers. repose: repos, se reposer, trêve. roamed: erras, errâtes, errèrent, erra, errai, errâmes, erré, rôdâtes, rôdé, rôdas, rôdâmes. satiated: rassasié. skins: carters. sorrowful: affligé, triste. statuesque: sculptural. striped: rayé, à rayures. tawny: fauve. treading: côchage, piétinage, marcher.

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her, pensive, as though it had been looking at the image of its own tenebrous and passionate soul.% "She came abreast of the steamer, stood still, and faced us. Her long shadow fell to the water's edge. Her face had a tragic and fierce aspect of wild sorrow and of dumb pain mingled with the fear of some struggling, half-shaped resolve. She stood looking at us without a stir and like the wilderness itself, with an air of brooding over an inscrutable purpose. A whole minute passed, and then she made a step forward. There was a low jingle, a glint of yellow metal, a sway of fringed draperies, and she stopped as if her heart had failed her. The young fellow by my side growled. The pilgrims murmured at my back. She looked at us all as if her life had depended upon the unswerving steadiness of her glance. Suddenly she opened her bared arms and threw them up rigid above her head, as though in an uncontrollable desire to touch the sky, and at the same time the swift shadows darted out on the earth, swept around on the river, gathering the steamer into a shadowy embrace. A formidable silence hung over the scene. "She turned away slowly, walked on, following the bank, and passed into the bushes to the left. Once only her eyes gleamed back at us in the dusk of the thickets before she disappeared. "`If she had offered to come aboard I really think I would have tried to shoot her,' said the man of patches, nervously. `I had been risking my life every day for the last fortnight to keep her out of the house. She got in one day and kicked up a row about those miserable rags I picked up in the storeroom to mend my clothes with. I wasn't decent. At least it must have been that, for she talked like a fury to Kurtz for an hour, pointing at me now and then. I don't understand the dialect of this tribe. Luckily for me, I fancy Kurtz felt too ill that day to care, or there would have been mischief. I don't understand. . . . No--it's too much for me. Ah, well, it's all over now.' "At this moment I heard Kurtz's deep voice behind the curtain, `Save me!-save the ivory, you mean. Don't tell me. Save ME! Why, I've had to save you. You are interrupting my plans now. Sick! Sick! Not so sick as you would like to believe. Never mind. I'll carry my ideas out yet--I will return. I'll show you what

French aboard: à bord. bared: barré. depended: dépendis, dépendit, dépendu, dépendirent, dépendîmes, dépendîtes. dialect: dialecte. embrace: embrasser, étreinte, prendre dans les bras, embrassade, embrassement, embrassent. formidable: formidable, extraordinaire, prodigieux, singulier, redoutable.

fury: fureur, furie. gathering: réunion, ramassage, rassemblement, cueillage, roulage. gleamed: luis, luie, luies. glint: briller, reflet, scintiller. interrupting: interrompant. mischief: malice. nervously: de manière nerveuse, nerveusement, de façon nerveuse. passionate: passionné. risking: risquant. shadowy: ombragé.

steadiness: régularité, fermeté, stabilité. stir: remuer, émouvoir, affecter, battre, vigueur, faire tournoyer, agitation, agiter, bouger. storeroom: débarras, dépôt, économat, entrepôt, soute, magasin, magasin général, réserve. swept: balayé. tragic: tragique. uncontrollable: incontrôlable. unswerving: inébranlable.

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can%be done. You with your little peddling notions--you are interfering with me. I will return. I . . .' "The manager came out. He did me the honor to take me under the arm and lead me aside. `He is very low, very low,' he said. He considered it necessary to sigh, but neglected to be consistently sorrowful. `We have done all we could for him--haven't we? But there is no disguising the fact, Mr. Kurtz has done more harm than good to the Company. He did not see the time was not ripe for vigorous action. Cautiously, cautiously--that's my principle. We must be cautious yet. The district is closed to us for a time. Deplorable! Upon the whole, the trade will suffer. I don't deny there is a remarkable quantity of ivory--mostly fossil. We must save it, at all events--but look how precarious the position is--and why? Because the method is unsound.' `Do you,' said I, looking at the shore, `call it "unsound method"?' `Without doubt,' he exclaimed, hotly. `Don't you?' . . . `No method at all,' I murmured after a while. `Exactly,' he exulted. `I anticipated this. Shows a complete want of judgment. It is my duty to point it out in the proper quarter.' `Oh,' said I, `that fellow--what's his name?--the brickmaker, will make a readable report for you.' He appeared confounded for a moment. It seemed to me I had never breathed an atmosphere so vile, and I turned mentally to Kurtz for relief--positively for relief. `Nevertheless I think Mr. Kurtz is a remarkable man,' I said with emphasis. He started, dropped on me a cold heavy glance, said very quietly, `He WAS,' and turned his back on me. My hour of favor was over; I found myself lumped along with Kurtz as a partisan of methods for which the time was not ripe: I was unsound! Ah! but it was something to have at least a choice of nightmares. "I had turned to the wilderness really, not to Mr. Kurtz, who, I was ready to admit, was as good as buried. And for a moment it seemed to me as if I also were buried in a vast grave full of unspeakable secrets. I felt an intolerable weight oppressing my breast, the smell of the damp earth, the unseen presence of victorious corruption, the darkness of an impenetrable night. . . . The Russian tapped me on the shoulder. I heard him mumbling and stammering something about `brother seaman--couldn't conceal-- knowledge of matters that would

French anticipated: anticipé, anticipâmes, anticipèrent, anticipa, anticipai, anticipâtes, anticipas, prévu. breast: poitrine, sein, mamelle, front de taille. breathed: respiras, respirâtes, respirèrent, respira, respiré, respirâmes, respirai. cautious: prudent, circonspect. consistently: de manière cohérente, de façon cohérente. corruption: corruption.

damp: humide, amortir, humidité, mouiller. disguising: déguisant. exulted: exultas, exultâtes, exulté, exultâmes, exultai, exulta, exultèrent. grave: tombe, grave, sérieux. hotly: de façon chaude, de manière chaude. interfering: interférant. lumped: concentré, localisé. mumbling: marmottant, marmonnant. murmured: murmuré.

neglected: négligé. nightmares: cauchemars. oppressing: serrant, opprimant. peddling: colportage. readable: lisible. ripe: mûr, fait. stammering: bégaiement, bégayant. tapped: entaillé, taraudé. unseen: inaperçu. unsound: véreux. victorious: victorieux. vile: vil, abject, lâche, infâme.

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affect%Mr. Kurtz's reputation.' I waited. For him evidently Mr. Kurtz was not in his grave; I suspect that for him Mr. Kurtz was one of the immortals. `Well!' said I at last, `speak out. As it happens, I am Mr. Kurtz's friend--in a way.' "He stated with a good deal of formality that had we not been `of the same profession,' he would have kept the matter to himself without regard to consequences. `He suspected there was an active ill-will towards him on the part of these white men that--' `You are right,' I said, remembering a certain conversation I had overheard. `The manager thinks you ought to be hanged.' He showed a concern at this intelligence which amused me at first. `I had better get out of the way quietly,' he said, earnestly. `I can do no more for Kurtz now, and they would soon find some excuse. What's to stop them? There's a military post three hundred miles from here.' `Well, upon my word,' said I, `perhaps you had better go if you have any friends amongst the savages near by.' `Plenty,' he said. `They are simple people--and I want nothing, you know.' He stood biting his lips, then: `I don't want any harm to happen to these whites here, but of course I was thinking of Mr. Kurtz's reputation--but you are a brother seaman and--' `All right,' said I, after a time. `Mr. Kurtz's reputation is safe with me.' I did not know how truly I spoke. "He informed me, lowering his voice, that it was Kurtz who had ordered the attack to be made on the steamer. `He hated sometimes the idea of being taken away--and then again. . . . But I don't understand these matters. I am a simple man. He thought it would scare you away--that you would give it up, thinking him dead. I could not stop him. Oh, I had an awful time of it this last month.' `Very well,' I said. `He is all right now.' `Ye-e-es,' he muttered, not very convinced apparently. `Thanks,' said I; `I shall keep my eyes open.' `But quiet-eh?' he urged, anxiously. `It would be awful for his reputation if anybody here--' I promised a complete discretion with great gravity. `I have a canoe and three black fellows waiting not very far. I am off. Could you give me a few MartiniHenry cartridges?' I could, and did, with proper secrecy. He helped himself, with a wink at me, to a handful of my tobacco. `Between sailors-- you know-good English tobacco.' At the door of the pilot-house he turned round--' I say,

French anxiously: de manière inquiète, de façon inquiète. awful: horrible, abominable, hideux, abject, odieux, terrible. canoe: canoë, faire du canoë. convinced: convaincu, convainquit, convainquis, convainquirent, convainquîmes, convainquîtes. discretion: discrétion, prudence, précaution. excuse: excuser, dispenser, excuse, pardonner, excusez.

formality: formalité. gravity: pesanteur, gravité, gravitation. handful: poignée. harm: nuire, préjudice, mal, tort, endommager. informed: informas, informâtes, informai, informâmes, informa, informèrent, informé, renseignas, renseignâtes, renseignâmes, renseignèrent. lowering: abaissement, baissant.

muttered: barbota, barbotées, barbotée, barboté, barbotés. overheard: surprîtes, surprit, surprîmes, surprirent, surpris. remembering: retenant, rappelant. scare: effrayer. secrecy: secret. suspect: soupçonner, suspecter, suspect, se méfier. suspected: soupçonné. tobacco: tabac. urged: exhorté.

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haven't you a pair of shoes you could spare?' He raised one leg. `Look.' The soles were tied with knotted strings sandal-wise under his bare feet. I rooted out an old pair, at which he looked with admiration before tucking it under his left arm. One of his pockets (bright red) was bulging with cartridges, from the other (dark blue) peeped `Towson's Inquiry,' &c., &c. He seemed to think himself excellently well equipped for a renewed encounter with the wilderness. `Ah! I'll never, never meet such a man again. You ought to have heard him recite poetry- his own too it was, he told me. Poetry!' He rolled his eyes at the recollection of these delights. `Oh, he enlarged my mind!' `Goodby,' said I. He shook hands and vanished in the night. Sometimes I ask myself whether I had ever really seen him-- whether it was possible to meet such a phenomenon! . . .% "When I woke up shortly after midnight his warning came to my mind with its hint of danger that seemed, in the starred darkness, real enough to make me get up for the purpose of having a look round. On the hill a big fire burned, illuminating fitfully a crooked corner of the station-house. One of the agents with a picket of a few of our blacks, armed for the purpose, was keeping guard over the ivory; but deep within the forest, red gleams that wavered, that seemed to sink and rise from the ground amongst confused columnar shapes of intense blackness, showed the exact position of the camp where Mr. Kurtz's adorers were keeping their uneasy vigil. The monotonous beating of a big drum filled the air with muffled shocks and a lingering vibration. A steady droning sound of many men chanting each to himself some weird incantation came out from the black, flat wall of the woods as the humming of bees comes out of a hive, and had a strange narcotic effect upon my half-awake senses. I believe I dozed off leaning over the rail, till an abrupt burst of yells, an overwhelming outbreak of a pent-up and mysterious frenzy, woke me up in a bewildered wonder. It was cut short all at once, and the low droning went on with an effect of audible and soothing silence. I glanced casually into the little cabin. A light was burning within, but Mr. Kurtz was not there. "I think I would have raised an outcry if I had believed my eyes. But I didn't believe them at first--the thing seemed so impossible. The fact is I was completely

French abrupt: abrupt, brusque, raide, inattendu, escarpé, soudain, subit, à pic. bees: abeilles. bewildered: éperdu, effarai, effara, effarâtes, effaras, effaré, effarée, effarâmes, effarèrent. blackness: noirceur. columnar: colonnaire, basaltique. crooked: tordu. dozed: sommeillai, sommeillâmes, sommeillas, sommeillâtes, sommeillé,

sommeillèrent, sommeilla. excellently: de façon excellente, de manière excellente, excellemment. fitfully: de manière irrégulière, de façon irrégulière. hive: ruche. humming: vrombissement, bourdonnement. incantation: incantation. narcotic: narcotique, stupéfiant. outcry: tollé. picket: piquet de grève, piquet.

recite: réciter, récite, récites, récitent, récitons, récitez. rooted: enraciné. shocks: choque. soles: soles. soothing: lénitif, calmant, apaisant, abattant, rassurant. tucking: accrochage, bourrage, charge, serrage aux doigts, tassement. vigil: veille. wavered: hésitas, hésitèrent, hésitâtes, hésitâmes, hésitai, hésita, hésité.

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unnerved by a sheer blank fright, pure abstract terror, unconnected with any distinct shape of physical danger. What made this emotion so overpowering was-- how shall I define it?--the moral shock I received, as if something altogether monstrous, intolerable to thought and odious to the soul, had been thrust upon me unexpectedly. This lasted of course the merest fraction of a second, and then the usual sense of commonplace, deadly danger, the possibility of a sudden onslaught and massacre, or something of the kind, which I saw impending, was positively welcome and composing. It pacified me, in fact, so much, that I did not raise an alarm.% "There was an agent buttoned up inside an ulster and sleeping on a chair on deck within three feet of me. The yells had not awakened him; he snored very slightly; I left him to his slumbers and leaped ashore. I did not betray Mr. Kurtz-it was ordered I should never betray him-- it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice. I was anxious to deal with this shadow by myself alone,-and to this day I don't know why I was so jealous of sharing with anyone the peculiar blackness of that experience. "As soon as I got on the bank I saw a trail--a broad trail through the grass. I remember the exultation with which I said to myself, `He can't walk--he is crawling on all-fours--I've got him.' The grass was wet with dew. I strode rapidly with clenched fists. I fancy I had some vague notion of falling upon him and giving him a drubbing. I don't know. I had some imbecile thoughts. The knitting old woman with the cat obtruded herself upon my memory as a most improper person to be sitting at the other end of such an affair. I saw a row of pilgrims squirting lead in the air out of Winchesters held to the hip. I thought I would never get back to the steamer, and imagined myself living alone and unarmed in the woods to an advanced age. Such silly things--you know. And I remember I confounded the beat of the drum with the beating of my heart, and was pleased at its calm regularity. "I kept to the track though--then stopped to listen. The night was very clear: a dark blue space, sparkling with dew and starlight, in which black things stood very still. I thought I could see a kind of motion ahead of me. I was strangely

French awakened: réveillâtes, réveillas, réveillâmes, réveillai, réveillèrent, réveilla, réveillé. beating: battement, battage, battant. betray: trahir, trahissent, trahissez, trahis, trahissons. buttoned: boutonné. clenched: rivé. composing: composant, montage, composition. deadly: mortel, meurtrier, de façon morte, de manière morte.

dew: rosée. drum: tambour, fût. exultation: exultation. impending: imminent. improper: inexact, incorrect. jealous: jaloux. odious: odieux. overpowering: accablant, dominant, vainquant, maîtrisant, irrésistible. pacified: pacifias, pacifiâtes, pacifiâmes, pacifiai, pacifia, pacifièrent, pacifié.

sleeping: dormant. snored: ronflé. sparkling: étincelant, brillant, mousseux, pétillant. starlight: lumière des étoiles. trail: piste, traîner, chemin, sentier. unarmed: désarmé, non armé, sans armes. unconnected: sans rapport. unnerved: déconcertâtes, déconcerté, déconcertèrent, déconcertâmes, déconcertai, déconcerta, déconcertas.

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cocksure of everything that night. I actually left the track and ran in a wide semicircle (I verily believe chuckling to myself) so as to get in front of that stir, of that motion I had seen--if indeed I had seen anything. I was circumventing Kurtz as though it had been a boyish game.% "I came upon him, and, if he had not heard me coming, I would have fallen over him too, but he got up in time. He rose, unsteady, long, pale, indistinct, like a vapor exhaled by the earth, and swayed slightly, misty and silent before me; while at my back the fires loomed between the trees, and the murmur of many voices issued from the forest. I had cut him off cleverly; but when actually confronting him I seemed to come to my senses, I saw the danger in its right proportion. It was by no means over yet. Suppose he began to shout? Though he could hardly stand, there was still plenty of vigor in his voice. `Go away-hide yourself,' he said, in that profound tone. It was very awful. I glanced back. We were within thirty yards from the nearest fire. A black figure stood up, strode on long black legs, waving long black arms, across the glow. It had horns-antelope horns, I think-- on its head. Some sorcerer, some witch-man, no doubt: it looked fiend-like enough. `Do you know what you are doing?' I whispered. `Perfectly,' he answered, raising his voice for that single word: it sounded to me far off and yet loud, like a hail through a speaking-trumpet. `If he makes a row we are lost,' I thought to myself. This clearly was not a case for fisticuffs, even apart from the very natural aversion I had to beat that Shadow--this wandering and tormented thing. `You will be lost,' I said--'utterly lost.' One gets sometimes such a flash of inspiration, you know. I did say the right thing, though indeed he could not have been more irretrievably lost than he was at this very moment, when the foundations of our intimacy were being laid--to endure-- to endure-even to the end--even beyond. "`I had immense plans,' he muttered irresolutely. `Yes,' said I; `but if you try to shout I'll smash your head with--' There was not a stick or a stone near. `I will throttle you for good,' I corrected myself. `I was on the threshold of great things,' he pleaded, in a voice of longing, with a wistfulness of tone that made my blood run cold. `And now for this stupid scoundrel--' `Your success in Europe is

French aversion: aversion, antipathie. circumventing: circulant. cleverly: de manière habile, de façon habile, habilement. confronting: affrontant, confrontant. exhaled: exhalèrent, exhala, exhalâmes, exhalas, exhalâtes, exhalai, exhalé. foundations: fondations. hail: grêle, héler, grêler. hide: peau, cacher, cachent, cachons, caches, cache, cachez, fourrure,

s'abriter, dissimuler, pelage. horns: cornes. inspiration: inspiration, souffle. intimacy: intimité. irresolutely: de manière indécise, de façon indécise. irretrievably: de manière irréparable, de façon irréparable. loud: fort, bruyant, haut, sonore, criard. nearest: plus proche. raising: élevage.

shout: crier, cri, pousser des cris. smash: fracasser, briser, réduire en miettes, écraser. sorcerer: sorcier. sounded: sonna, sonnâmes, sonnés, sonnèrent, sonnées, sonné. threshold: seuil. throttle: étrangler, accélérateur, papillon des gaz, manette des gaz. vapor: vapeur. vigor: vigueur. whispered: chuchoté.

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assured %in any case,' I affirmed, steadily. I did not want to have the throttling of him, you understand--and indeed it would have been very little use for any practical purpose. I tried to break the spell--the heavy, mute spell of the wilderness-- that seemed to draw him to its pitiless breast by the awakening of forgotten and brutal instincts, by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions. This alone, I was convinced, had driven him out to the edge of the forest, to the bush, towards the gleam of fires, the throb of drums, the drone of weird incantations; this alone had beguiled his unlawful soul beyond the bounds of permitted aspirations. And, don't you see, the terror of the position was not in being knocked on the head-- though I had a very lively sense of that danger too--but in this, that I had to deal with a being to whom I could not appeal in the name of anything high or low. I had, even like the niggers, to invoke him--himself his own exalted and incredible degradation. There was nothing either above or below him, and I knew it. He had kicked himself loose of the earth. Confound the man! he had kicked the very earth to pieces. He was alone, and I before him did not know whether I stood on the ground or floated in the air. I've been telling you what we said-- repeating the phrases we pronounced,--but what's the good? They were common everyday words,--the familiar, vague sounds exchanged on every waking day of life. But what of that? They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares. Soul! If anybody had ever struggled with a soul, I am the man. And I wasn't arguing with a lunatic either. Believe me or not, his intelligence was perfectly clear--concentrated, it is true, upon himself with horrible intensity, yet clear; and therein was my only chance--barring, of course, the killing him there and then, which wasn't so good, on account of unavoidable noise. But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself, and, by heavens! I tell you, it had gone mad. I had--for my sins, I suppose--to go through the ordeal of looking into it myself. No eloquence could have been so withering to one's belief in mankind as his final burst of sincerity. He struggled with himself, too. I saw it,--I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself. I kept my head pretty well; but when I had him at

French arguing: argumentation, argumentant, arraisonnant, arguant. awakening: réveillant, réveil, éveil. blindly: aveuglément, de manière aveugle, de façon aveugle. bounds: bornes. brutal: maussade. degradation: dégradation. drone: drone, bourdon. gratified: gratifiâtes, satisfîtes, satisfit, satisfis, satisfirent, gratifièrent, gratifias, gratifiâmes, gratifiai,

gratifia, satisfîmes. intensity: intensité. invoke: invoquer, invoque, invoques, invoquez, invoquons, invoquent, appeler. kicked: bottées, bottée, bottai, bottés, bottâmes, botté. lively: animé, vif, spirituel, fin, mental, de manière vivre, de façon vivre, plein d'entrain. mankind: humanité. ordeal: désolation, épreuve.

passions: passions. repeating: répétant, redisant. sincerity: sincérité, bonne foi. struggled: lutté. terrific: formidable. therein: en cela. throb: palpiter. throttling: étranglement. unlawful: illégal, illégitime, illicite. vague: vague, imprécis, flou. weird: bizarre, singulier. withering: flétrissure, flétrissement.

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last stretched on the couch, I wiped my forehead, while my legs shook under me as though I had carried half a ton on my back down that hill. And yet I had only supported him, his bony arm clasped round my neck-- and he was not much heavier than a child.% "When next day we left at noon, the crowd, of whose presence behind the curtain of trees I had been acutely conscious all the time, flowed out of the woods again, filled the clearing, covered the slope with a mass of naked, breathing, quivering, bronze bodies. I steamed up a bit, then swung downstream, and two thousand eyes followed the evolutions of the splashing, thumping, fierce river-demon beating the water with its terrible tail and breathing black smoke into the air. In front of the first rank, along the river, three men, plastered with bright red earth from head to foot, strutted to and fro restlessly. When we came abreast again, they faced the river, stamped their feet, nodded their horned heads, swayed their scarlet bodies; they shook towards the fierce river-demon a bunch of black feathers, a mangy skin with a pendent tail-something that looked like a dried gourd; they shouted periodically together strings of amazing words that resembled no sounds of human language; and the deep murmurs of the crowd, interrupted suddenly, were like the response of some satanic litany. "We had carried Kurtz into the pilot-house: there was more air there. Lying on the couch, he stared through the open shutter. There was an eddy in the mass of human bodies, and the woman with helmeted head and tawny cheeks rushed out to the very brink of the stream. She put out her hands, shouted something, and all that wild mob took up the shout in a roaring chorus of articulated, rapid, breathless utterance. "`Do you understand this?' I asked. "He kept on looking out past me with fiery, longing eyes, with a mingled expression of wistfulness and hate. He made no answer, but I saw a smile, a smile of indefinable meaning, appear on his colorless lips that a moment after twitched convulsively. `Do I not?' he said slowly, gasping, as if the words had been torn out of him by a supernatural power.

French acutely: de manière aigue, de façon aigue. articulated: articulé. breathless: hors d'haleine, haletant, essoufflé. brink: bord, lisière. bunch: bouquet, botte, paquet, tas. chorus: chœur. colorless: incolore, sans couleur. convulsively: de manière convulsive, de façon convulsive. eddy: tourbillon, remous.

feathers: plumage. fiery: ardent, fougueux. gasping: halètement. gourd: potiron, courge, citrouille, gourde. helmeted: casqué. horned: cornu. litany: litanie. mangy: galeux. mob: foule. noon: midi. periodically: périodiquement, de

manière périodique, de façon périodique. plastered: plâtré. quivering: frisson, tremblant. restlessly: de manière remuante, de façon remuante. roaring: rugissant. satanic: satanique. stamped: affranchi, timbré. swung: pivotai. thumping: pilonnement. ton: tonne.

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"I pulled the string of the whistle, and I did this because I saw the pilgrims on deck getting out their rifles with an air of anticipating a jolly lark. At the sudden screech there was a movement of abject terror through that wedged mass of bodies. `Don't! Don't you frighten them away,' cried someone on deck disconsolately. I pulled the string time after time. They broke and ran, they leaped, they crouched, they swerved, they dodged the flying terror of the sound. The three red chaps had fallen flat, face down on the shore, as though they had been shot dead. Only the barbarous and superb woman did not so much as flinch, and stretched tragically her bare arms after us over the somber and glittering river.% "And then that imbecile crowd down on the deck started their little fun, and I could see nothing more for smoke. "The brown current ran swiftly out of the heart of darkness, bearing us down towards the sea with twice the speed of our upward progress; and Kurtz's life was running swiftly too, ebbing, ebbing out of his heart into the sea of inexorable time. The manager was very placid, he had no vital anxieties now, he took us both in with a comprehensive and satisfied glance: the `affair' had come off as well as could be wished. I saw the time approaching when I would be left alone of the party of `unsound method.' The pilgrims looked upon me with disfavor. I was, so to speak, numbered with the dead. It is strange how I accepted this unforeseen partnership, this choice of nightmares forced upon me in the tenebrous land invaded by these mean and greedy phantoms. "Kurtz discoursed. A voice! a voice! It rang deep to the very last. It survived his strength to hide in the magnificent folds of eloquence the barren darkness of his heart. Oh, he struggled! he struggled! The wastes of his weary brain were haunted by shadowy images now--images of wealth and fame revolving obsequiously round his unextinguishable gift of noble and lofty expression. My Intended, my station, my career, my ideas-- these were the subjects for the occasional utterances of elevated sentiments. The shade of the original Kurtz frequented the bedside of the hollow sham, whose fate it was to be buried presently in the mold of primeval earth. But both the diabolic love and the

French anticipating: anticipant. approaching: approchant. barren: stérile, aride, infertile. bedside: chevet. crouched: accroupi. diabolic: diabolique. dodged: esquivé. ebbing: jusant, baissant. elevated: élevé, élevâmes, élevèrent, élevas, élevai, éleva, élevâtes. fame: renommée, gloire, réputation, célébrité.

flinch: recule, reculent, recules, reculez, reculons, reculer. frequented: fréquenté. haunted: hanté. invaded: envahirent, envahîtes, envahîmes, envahis, envahit, envahi. lark: alouette. magnificent: magnifique, grandiose. mold: moule, modeler, matrice, fondre, moisissure. noble: noble, élevé. numbered: numéroté.

obsequiously: de manière obséquieuse, de façon obséquieuse. revolving: tournant. sham: comédie, faux. stretched: tendu. survived: survécûmes, survécurent, survécut, survécus, survécu. tragically: de manière tragique, de façon tragique, tragiquement. unforeseen: imprévu. upward: ascendant, vers le haut. wastes: gaspille, prodigue, gâche.

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unearthly hate of the mysteries it had penetrated fought for the possession of that soul satiated with primitive emotions, avid of lying fame, of sham distinction, of all the appearances of success and power.% "Sometimes he was contemptibly childish. He desired to have kings meet him at railway-stations on his return from some ghastly Nowhere, where he intended to accomplish great things. `You show them you have in you something that is really profitable, and then there will be no limits to the recognition of your ability,' he would say. `Of course you must take care of the motives-- right motives--always.' The long reaches that were like one and the same reach, monotonous bends that were exactly alike, slipped past the steamer with their multitude of secular trees looking patiently after this grimy fragment of another world, the forerunner of change, of conquest, of trade, of massacres, of blessings. I looked ahead--piloting. `Close the shutter,' said Kurtz suddenly one day; `I can't bear to look at this.' I did so. There was a silence. `Oh, but I will wring your heart yet!' he cried at the invisible wilderness. "We broke down--as I had expected--and had to lie up for repairs at the head of an island. This delay was the first thing that shook Kurtz's confidence. One morning he gave me a packet of papers and a photograph,-- the lot tied together with a shoe-string. `Keep this for me,' he said. `This noxious fool' (meaning the manager) `is capable of prying into my boxes when I am not looking.' In the afternoon I saw him. He was lying on his back with closed eyes, and I withdrew quietly, but I heard him mutter, `Live rightly, die, die . . .' I listened. There was nothing more. Was he rehearsing some speech in his sleep, or was it a fragment of a phrase from some newspaper article? He had been writing for the papers and meant to do so again, `for the furthering of my ideas. It's a duty.' "His was an impenetrable darkness. I looked at him as you peer down at a man who is lying at the bottom of a precipice where the sun never shines. But I had not much time to give him, because I was helping the engine-driver to take to pieces the leaky cylinders, to straighten a bent connecting-rod, and in other such matters. I lived in an infernal mess of rust, filings, nuts, bolts, spanners, hammers, ratchet-drills--things I abominate, because I don't get on with them. I

French abominate: abominer, abominons, abominez, abomines, abomine, abominent, abhorrer, avoir en abomination, haïr. accomplish: accomplir, accomplissons, accomplissez, accomplissent, accomplis, réaliser, réalise, réalisons, réalisez, réalisent, réalises. avid: avide. blessings: bénédictions. contemptibly: de manière méprisable, de façon méprisable.

cylinders: cylindres. engine-driver: conducteur de locomotive. filings: limaille, limailles. forerunner: précurseur. hammers: martèle. multitude: multitude, amas, foule, tas, masse. noxious: nocif, nuisible. patiently: de manière patiente, patiemment, de façon patiente. penetrated: pénétras, pénétrâtes,

pénétrâmes, pénétrèrent, pénétra, pénétrai, pénétré. precipice: abîme, précipice, gouffre. prying: fureteur. rehearsing: répétant. rust: rouille, rouiller, se rouiller. shines: reluit. straighten: redresser, redresses, redressent, redresse, redressons, redressez. wring: tordre, tordent, tords, tordons, tordez.

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tended the little forge we fortunately had aboard; I toiled wearily in a wretched scrap-heap--unless I had the shakes too bad to stand.% "One evening coming in with a candle I was startled to hear him say a little tremulously, `I am lying here in the dark waiting for death.' The light was within a foot of his eyes. I forced myself to murmur, `Oh, nonsense!' and stood over him as if transfixed. "Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I wasn't touched. I was fascinated. It was as though a veil had been rent. I saw on that ivory face the expression of somber pride, of ruthless power, of craven terror--of an intense and hopeless despair. Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision,--he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath-"`The horror! The horror!' "I blew the candle out and left the cabin. The pilgrims were dining in the mess-room, and I took my place opposite the manager, who lifted his eyes to give me a questioning glance, which I successfully ignored. He leaned back, serene, with that peculiar smile of his sealing the unexpressed depths of his meanness. A continuous shower of small flies streamed upon the lamp, upon the cloth, upon our hands and faces. Suddenly the manager's boy put his insolent black head in the doorway, and said in a tone of scathing contempt-"`Mistah Kurtz--he dead.' "All the pilgrims rushed out to see. I remained, and went on with my dinner. I believe I was considered brutally callous. However, I did not eat much. There was a lamp in there--light, don't you know--and outside it was so beastly, beastly dark. I went no more near the remarkable man who had pronounced a judgment upon the adventures of his soul on this earth. The voice was gone. What else had been there? But I am of course aware that next day the pilgrims buried something in a muddy hole.

French adventures: aventures. brutally: de manière maussade, de façon maussade. cabin: cabine, cabane, hutte, chaumière, cabine de bateau. callous: calleux, dur. craven: lâche, poltron. despair: désespoir, désespérer. dining: dînant. doorway: embrasure. forge: forger, forge, contrefaire, falsifier.

insolent: insolent, effronté. lamp: lampe, ampoule. meanness: vilenie, mesquinerie. muddy: boueux, vaseux, trouble. questioning: questionnant, interrogateur, interrogation, questionnement, sondage. rushed: précipité. ruthless: impitoyable. sealing: scellement, étanchéité, plombage, cachetage, obturation, fermeture.

shakes: secoue, ébranle. surrender: abandon, se rendre, reddition. temptation: tentation. transfixed: transperças, transpercé, transperçâtes, transperçai, transperça, transperçâmes, transpercèrent. tremulously: de manière tremblotante, de façon tremblotante. unexpressed: inexprimé. wearily: de manière lasse, de façon lasse.

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"And then they very nearly buried me.% "However, as you see, I did not go to join Kurtz there and then. I did not. I remained to dream the nightmare out to the end, and to show my loyalty to Kurtz once more. Destiny. My destiny! Droll thing life is-- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself--that comes too late--a crop of unextinguishable regrets. I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmosphere of tepid skepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary. If such is the form of ultimate wisdom, then life is a greater riddle than some of us think it to be. I was within a hair's-breadth of the last opportunity for pronouncement, and I found with humiliation that probably I would have nothing to say. This is the reason why I affirm that Kurtz was a remarkable man. He had something to say. He said it. Since I had peeped over the edge myself, I understand better the meaning of his stare, that could not see the flame of the candle, but was wide enough to embrace the whole universe, piercing enough to penetrate all the hearts that beat in the darkness. He had summed up--he had judged. `The horror!' He was a remarkable man. After all, this was the expression of some sort of belief; it had candor, it had conviction, it had a vibrating note of revolt in its whisper, it had the appalling face of a glimpsed truth--the strange commingling of desire and hate. And it is not my own extremity I remember best-- a vision of grayness without form filled with physical pain, and a careless contempt for the evanescence of all things--even of this pain itself. No! It is his extremity that I seem to have lived through. True, he had made that last stride, he had stepped over the edge, while I had been permitted to draw back my hesitating foot. And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that inappreciable moment of time in which we step over the threshold of the invisible. Perhaps! I like to think my summing-up would not have been a word of careless contempt. Better his cry--much better. It was an

French adversary: antagoniste, ennemi. appalling: épouvantable, consternant, effroyable. candor: franchise, sincérité. compressed: compressé, comprimé. contempt: mépris. crop: récolte, couper, jabot œsophagien, jabot, rogner. evanescence: évanescence. glimpsed: entrevu, entrevit, entrevis, entrevues. hearts: coeurs.

humiliation: humiliation. inappreciable: inappréciable. invisible: invisible. judged: jugé. loyalty: loyauté, fidélité, loyalisme. merciless: impitoyable. mysterious: mystérieux. nightmare: cauchemar. penetrate: pénétrer, pénètres, pénètre, pénètrent, pénétrez, pénétrons, entrer. piercing: perçant.

pronouncement: déclaration. riddle: énigme, puzzle, devinette, cribler, crible. sickly: maladif, de manière malade, écoeurant, de façon malade, malsain. skepticism: scepticisme. spectators: spectateurs. stride: pas, faire les cent pas, foulée, enjambée. tepid: tiède. underfoot: sous les pieds. unexciting: ordinaire.

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affirmation, a moral victory paid for by innumerable defeats, by abominable terrors, by abominable satisfactions. But it was a victory! That is why I have remained loyal to Kurtz to the last, and even beyond, when a long time after I heard once more, not his own voice, but the echo of his magnificent eloquence thrown to me from a soul as translucently pure as a cliff of crystal.% "No, they did not bury me, though there is a period of time which I remember mistily, with a shuddering wonder, like a passage through some inconceivable world that had no hope in it and no desire. I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other, to devour their infamous cookery, to gulp their unwholesome beer, to dream their insignificant and silly dreams. They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance. I dare say I was not very well at that time. I tottered about the streets--there were various affairs to settle--grinning bitterly at perfectly respectable persons. I admit my behavior was inexcusable, but then my temperature was seldom normal in these days. My dear aunt's endeavors to `nurse up my strength' seemed altogether beside the mark. It was not my strength that wanted nursing, it was my imagination that wanted soothing. I kept the bundle of papers given me by Kurtz, not knowing exactly what to do with it. His mother had died lately, watched over, as I was told, by his Intended. A clean-shaved man, with an official manner and wearing gold-rimmed spectacles, called on me one day and made inquiries, at first circuitous, afterwards suavely pressing, about what he was pleased to denominate certain `documents.' I was not surprised, because I had had two rows with the manager on the subject out there. I had refused to give up the smallest scrap out of that package, and I took the same attitude with the spectacled man. He became

French abominable: abominable, hideux, abject, odieux, horrible. affirmation: affirmation, promesse. behavior: comportement, conduite, procédé. circuitous: détourné. cookery: cuisine. defeats: vainc. denominate: dénommer, dénomment, dénommons, dénommez, dénomme, dénommes. devour: dévorer, dévorent, dévorons,

dévores, dévore, dévorez. enlighten: éclairer, éclairent, éclairons, éclairez, éclaires, éclaire, illuminer. filch: chiper, chipe, chipons, chipez, chipes, chipent. gulp: lampée. hurrying: dépêchant. inexcusable: impardonnable. infamous: infâme. inquiries: enquêtes. insignificant: insignifiant, mineur. irritating: irritant, agaçant.

mistily: de façon brumeuse, de manière brumeuse. resenting: ressentant. scrap: ferraille, lambeau, chiffon, déchets, débris, fragment, mettre au rebut, rebut. suavely: de manière doucereuse, de façon doucereuse. tottered: titubèrent, vacilla, vacillai, vacillâmes, vacillas, vacillèrent, vacillé, titubé, chancelai, vacillâtes, titubas.

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darkly %menacing at last, and with much heat argued that the Company had the right to every bit of information about its `territories.' And, said he, `Mr. Kurtz's knowledge of unexplored regions must have been necessarily extensive and peculiar--owing to his great abilities and to the deplorable circumstances in which he had been placed: therefore'--I assured him Mr. Kurtz's knowledge, however extensive, did not bear upon the problems of commerce or administration. He invoked then the name of science. `It would be an incalculable loss if,' &c., &c. I offered him the report on the `Suppression of Savage Customs,' with the postscriptum torn off. He took it up eagerly, but ended by sniffing at it with an air of contempt. `This is not what we had a right to expect,' he remarked. `Expect nothing else,' I said. `There are only private letters.' He withdrew upon some threat of legal proceedings, and I saw him no more; but another fellow, calling himself Kurtz's cousin, appeared two days later, and was anxious to hear all the details about his dear relative's last moments. Incidentally he gave me to understand that Kurtz had been essentially a great musician. `There was the making of an immense success,' said the man, who was an organist, I believe, with lank gray hair flowing over a greasy coat-collar. I had no reason to doubt his statement; and to this day I am unable to say what was Kurtz's profession, whether he ever had any--which was the greatest of his talents. I had taken him for a painter who wrote for the papers, or else for a journalist who could paint--but even the cousin (who took snuff during the interview) could not tell me what he had been--exactly. He was a universal genius--on that point I agreed with the old chap, who thereupon blew his nose noisily into a large cotton handkerchief and withdrew in senile agitation, bearing off some family letters and memoranda without importance. Ultimately a journalist anxious to know something of the fate of his `dear colleague' turned up. This visitor informed me Kurtz's proper sphere ought to have been politics `on the popular side.' He had furry straight eyebrows, bristly hair cropped short, an eye-glass on a broad ribbon, and, becoming expansive, confessed his opinion that Kurtz really couldn't write a bit--'but heavens! how that man could talk! He electrified large meetings. He had faith--don't you see?--he had the faith. He could get himself to believe anything--anything. He would have been a splendid

French bristly: hirsute, ébouriffé, hérissé. confessed: confessé, confessai, confessâmes, confessa, confessèrent, confessas, confessâtes, avoué, avouâtes, avouèrent, avouâmes. eagerly: de manière avide, de façon avide. electrified: électrisé, électrisa, électrisèrent, électrisâmes, électrisai, électrisâtes, électrisas. expansive: expansif. eyebrows: sourcils.

flowing: coulant, écoulement, fluent. furry: à poil. gray: gris, gray. greasy: gras, graisseux. handkerchief: mouchoir. incalculable: incalculable. invoked: invoquas, invoquâtes, invoqué, invoquèrent, invoquâmes, invoquai, invoqua. journalist: journaliste. musician: musicien. noisily: de manière bruyante, de façon

bruyante, bruyamment. organist: organiste. painter: peintre, peintre en bâtiments. ribbon: ruban. senile: sénile, gaga. sniffing: inhalation. snuff: tabac à priser. sphere: sphère. torn: déchiré. unexplored: inexploré. withdrew: retirâmes, retirèrent, retiras, retirai, retira, retirâtes.

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leader of an extreme party.' `What party?' I asked. `Any party,' answered the other. `He was an--an--extremist.' Did I not think so? I assented. Did I know, he asked, with a sudden flash of curiosity, `what it was that had induced him to go out there?' `Yes,' said I, and forthwith handed him the famous Report for publication, if he thought fit. He glanced through it hurriedly, mumbling all the time, judged `it would do,' and took himself off with this plunder.% "Thus I was left at last with a slim packet of letters and the girl's 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. I concluded I would go and give her back her portrait and those letters myself. Curiosity? Yes; and also some other feeling perhaps. All that had been Kurtz's had passed out of my hands: his soul, his body, his station, his plans, his ivory, his career. There remained only his memory and his Intended-- and I wanted to give that up too to the past, in a way,-- to surrender personally all that remained of him with me to that oblivion which is the last word of our common fate. I don't defend myself. I had no clear perception of what it was I really wanted. Perhaps it was an impulse of unconscious loyalty, or the fulfillment of one of these ironic necessities that lurk in the facts of human existence. I don't know. I can't tell. But I went. "I thought his memory was like the other memories of the dead that accumulate in every man's life,--a vague impress on the brain of shadows that had fallen on it in their swift and final passage; but before the high and ponderous door, between the tall houses of a street as still and decorous as a well-kept alley in a cemetery, I had a vision of him on the stretcher, opening his mouth voraciously, as if to devour all the earth with all its mankind. He lived then before me; he lived as much as he had ever lived--a shadow insatiable of splendid appearances, of frightful realities; a shadow darker than the shadow of the night, and draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence. The vision seemed to enter the house with me--the stretcher, the phantom-bearers, the wild

French accumulate: accumuler, accumulons, accumulez, accumulent, accumules, accumule, entasser, entassons, entassez, entassent, entasse. alley: allée, ruelle. assented: assentie, assenties, assentirent, assenti. cemetery: cimetière. conveyed: transmis, véhiculé, véhiculai, véhiculèrent, véhiculâtes, véhiculâmes, véhicula, transmîtes, transmit, transmirent, acheminèrent.

curiosity: curiosité. decorous: bienséant. fulfillment: réalisation. impress: impressionner, imprimer. impulse: impulsion, incitation, pulsion. induced: induit, induisîmes, induisîtes, induisit, induisis, induisirent. insatiable: insatiable. ironic: ironique. lurk: se cacher.

manipulation: manipulation. nobly: noblement, de manière noble, de façon noble. oblivion: oubli. packet: paquet. pose: poser, poses, posons, posent, posez, pose, agir avec affectation, s'ériger en. reservation: réservation, réserve. truthfulness: véracité. voraciously: de manière vorace, de façon vorace.

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crowd%of obedient worshipers, the gloom of the forests, the glitter of the reach between the murky bends, the beat of the drum, regular and muffled like the beating of a heart--the heart of a conquering darkness. It was a moment of triumph for the wilderness, an invading and vengeful rush which, it seemed to me, I would have to keep back alone for the salvation of another soul. And the memory of what I had heard him say afar there, with the horned shapes stirring at my back, in the glow of fires, within the patient woods, those broken phrases came back to me, were heard again in their ominous and terrifying simplicity. I remembered his abject pleading, his abject threats, the colossal scale of his vile desires, the meanness, the torment, the tempestuous anguish of his soul. And later on I seemed to see his collected languid manner, when he said one day, `This lot of ivory now is really mine. The Company did not pay for it. I collected it myself at a very great personal risk. I am afraid they will try to claim it as theirs though. H'm. It is a difficult case. What do you think I ought to do--resist? Eh? I want no more than justice.' . . . He wanted no more than justice--no more than justice. I rang the bell before a mahogany door on the first floor, and while I waited he seemed to stare at me out of the glassy panel-- stare with that wide and immense stare embracing, condemning, loathing all the universe. I seemed to hear the whispered cry, `The horror! The horror!' "The dusk was falling. I had to wait in a lofty drawing-room with three long windows from floor to ceiling that were like three luminous and bedraped columns. The bent gilt legs and backs of the furniture shone in indistinct curves. The tall marble fireplace had a cold and monumental whiteness. A grand piano stood massively in a corner, with dark gleams on the flat surfaces like a somber and polished sarcophagus. A high door opened--closed. I rose. "She came forward, all in black, with a pale head, floating towards me in the dusk. She was in mourning. It was more than a year since his death, more than a year since the news came; she seemed as though she would remember and mourn for ever. She took both my hands in hers and murmured, `I had heard you were coming.' I noticed she was not very young--I mean not girlish. She had a mature capacity for fidelity, for belief, for suffering. The room seemed to have

French anguish: angoisse, angoisser. backs: parties arrières, sections arrières. bent: courbé, courbe, courbai, disposition, cambrai, penché. columns: colonnes. condemning: condamnant. conquering: conquérant. curves: courbes, parenthèsestre. embracing: embrassant. fidelity: fidélité. fireplace: cheminée, foyer.

floating: flottant, flottement, flottage, talochage. gilt: doré, cochette, jeune truie. girlish: de petite fille. glassy: vitreux. loathing: abhorrant, abominant, haïssant, répugnance. mahogany: acajou. marble: marbre, marbrer, bille. massively: de manière massive, de façon massive, massivement. monumental: monumental.

mourn: regretter, regrettes, regrettez, regrettent, regrette, regrettons. mourning: deuil, regrettant. obedient: obéissant, docile. pleading: plaidant, plaidoirie. salvation: salut. sarcophagus: sarcophage. shapes: façonne. simplicity: simplicité. stirring: agitation. tempestuous: orageux, passionné. theirs: leur.

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grown%darker, as if all the sad light of the cloudy evening had taken refuge on her forehead. This fair hair, this pale visage, this pure brow, seemed surrounded by an ashy halo from which the dark eyes looked out at me. Their glance was guileless, profound, confident, and trustful. She carried her sorrowful head as though she were proud of that sorrow, as though she would say, `I--I alone know how to mourn for him as he deserves. But while we were still shaking hands, such a look of awful desolation came upon her face that I perceived she was one of those creatures that are not the playthings of Time. For her he had died only yesterday. And, by Jove! the impression was so powerful that for me too he seemed to have died only yesterday--nay, this very minute. I saw her and him in the same instant of time--his death and her sorrow--I saw her sorrow in the very moment of his death. Do you understand? I saw them together--I heard them together. She had said, with a deep catch of the breath, `I have survived;' while my strained ears seemed to hear distinctly, mingled with her tone of despairing regret, the summing-up whisper of his eternal condemnation. I asked myself what I was doing there, with a sensation of panic in my heart as though I had blundered into a place of cruel and absurd mysteries not fit for a human being to behold. She motioned me to a chair. We sat down. I laid the packet gently on the little table, and she put her hand over it. . . . `You knew him well,' she murmured, after a moment of mourning silence. "`Intimacy grows quick out there,' I said. `I knew him as well as it is possible for one man to know another.' "`And you admired him,' she said. `It was impossible to know him and not to admire him. Was it?' "`He was a remarkable man,' I said, unsteadily. Then before the appealing fixity of her gaze, that seemed to watch for more words on my lips, I went on, `It was impossible not to--' "`Love him,' she finished eagerly, silencing me into an appalled dumbness. `How true! how true! But when you think that no one knew him so well as I! I had all his noble confidence. I knew him best.'

French admire: admirer, admire, admires, admirons, admirent, admirez. admired: admirâtes, admiras, admira, admirèrent, admiré, admirâmes, admirai. appalled: consternèrent, consterna, consternai, consternâmes, consternas, consternâtes, consterné. appealing: suppliant. ashy: cendré, cendre. brow: sourcil, front. cloudy: nuageux.

condemnation: condamnation. cruel: cruel, atroce, méchant. deserves: mérite. distinctly: distinctement, de manière nette, de façon nette. dumbness: mutité, mutisme. fixity: fixité. forehead: front. gaze: regard. grows: grandit, croît. guileless: franc, naïf. halo: auréole, halo.

panic: panique, affolement. refuge: refuge, abri, retraite. regret: regret, regretter, ménager. sensation: sensation, sentiment. shaking: secouant, ébranlant, ébranlement, secousse. silencing: amortissement de bruit. strained: tendu. trustful: confiant. unsteadily: de façon instable, de manière instable. visage: visage.

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"`You knew him best,' I repeated. And perhaps she did. But with every word spoken the room was growing darker, and only her forehead, smooth and white, remained illumined by the unextinguishable light of belief and love.% "`You were his friend,' she went on. `His friend,' she repeated, a little louder. `You must have been, if he had given you this, and sent you to me. I feel I can speak to you--and oh! I must speak. I want you--you who have heard his last words-- to know I have been worthy of him. . . . It is not pride. . . . Yes! I am proud to know I understood him better than anyone on earth--he told me so himself. And since his mother died I have had no one--no one--to--to--' "I listened. The darkness deepened. I was not even sure whether he had given me the right bundle. I rather suspect he wanted me to take care of another batch of his papers which, after his death, I saw the manager examining under the lamp. And the girl talked, easing her pain in the certitude of my sympathy; she talked as thirsty men drink. I had heard that her engagement with Kurtz had been disapproved by her people. He wasn't rich enough or something. And indeed I don't know whether he had not been a pauper all his life. He had given me some reason to infer that it was his impatience of comparative poverty that drove him out there. "`. . . Who was not his friend who had heard him speak once?' she was saying. `He drew men towards him by what was best in them.' She looked at me with intensity. `It is the gift of the great,' she went on, and the sound of her low voice seemed to have the accompaniment of all the other sounds, full of mystery, desolation, and sorrow, I had ever heard--the ripple of the river, the soughing of the trees swayed by the wind, the murmurs of wild crowds, the faint ring of incomprehensible words cried from afar, the whisper of a voice speaking from beyond the threshold of an eternal darkness. `But you have heard him! You know!' she cried. "`Yes, I know,' I said with something like despair in my heart, but bowing my head before the faith that was in her, before that great and saving illusion that shone with an unearthly glow in the darkness, in the triumphant darkness from

French accompaniment: accompagnement. batch: lot, fournée. comparative: comparatif. cried: pleuré. crowds: foules. deepened: approfondi, approfondirent, approfondis, approfondit, approfondîtes, approfondîmes. disapproved: repoussa, repoussâmes, repoussèrent, repoussas, repoussai, repoussâtes.

easing: dégagement des noyaux, soulagement. engagement: engagement, fiançailles, enclenchement, accordailles. examining: examinant, fouillant. gift: cadeau, don. illusion: illusion. impatience: impatience. infer: conclure, concluent, concluez, concluons, conclus. listened: écoutas, écoutâtes, écoutèrent, écouté, écoutâmes,

écoutai, écouta. mystery: mystère. pauper: cancre. pride: fierté, orgueil. proud: fier, altier, orgueilleux. saving: épargnant, sauvant, économisant, économie, épargne, enregistrant, sauvegardant, sauvegarde. sympathy: sympathie, compassion. thirsty: assoiffé, altéré. worthy: digne.

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which I could not have defended her-- from which I could not even defend myself.% "`What a loss to me--to us!'--she corrected herself with beautiful generosity; then added in a murmur, `To the world.' By the last gleams of twilight I could see the glitter of her eyes, full of tears--of tears that would not fall. "`I have been very happy--very fortunate--very proud,' she went on. `Too fortunate. Too happy for a little while. And now I am unhappy for--for life.' "She stood up; her fair hair seemed to catch all the remaining light in a glimmer of gold. I rose too. "`And of all this,' she went on, mournfully, `of all his promise, and of all his greatness, of his generous mind, of his noble heart, nothing remains--nothing but a memory. You and I--' "`We shall always remember him,' I said, hastily. "`No!' she cried. `It is impossible that all this should be lost-- that such a life should be sacrificed to leave nothing--but sorrow. You know what vast plans he had. I knew of them too--I could not perhaps understand,--but others knew of them. Something must remain. His words, at least, have not died.' "`His words will remain,' I said. "`And his example,' she whispered to herself. `Men looked up to him,-- his goodness shone in every act. His example--' "`True,' I said; `his example too. Yes, his example. I forgot that.' "`But I do not. I cannot--I cannot believe--not yet. I cannot believe that I shall never see him again, that nobody will see him again, never, never, never.' "She put out her arms as if after a retreating figure, stretching them black and with clasped pale hands across the fading and narrow sheen of the window. Never see him! I saw him clearly enough then. I shall see this eloquent phantom as long as I live, and I shall see her too, a tragic and familiar Shade, resembling in this gesture another one, tragic also, and bedecked with powerless charms,

French bedecked: paré, parèrent, parâtes, paras, parâmes, parai, para. catch: attraper, attrape, attrapes, attrapons, attrapent, attrapez, prise, prenez, prends, prenons, prennent. defend: défendre, défendent, défends, défendons, défendez. defended: défendu, défendirent, défendis, défendit, défendîmes, défendîtes. fading: évanouissement, décoloration, pâlissant, fading, fondu, décolorant,

déteignant, fluctuation. fortunate: heureux, chanceux. generosity: générosité, largesse. generous: généreux. gesture: geste. glimmer: luire, briller, faible lueur. gold: or. goodness: bonté. least: moindre, le moins. mournfully: de manière sombre, de façon sombre. narrow: étroit.

pale: pâle, blême. promise: promettre, promets, promettent, promettez, promettons, assurer. remaining: restant, qui reste, autre. retreating: dépilage en rabattant. sacrificed: sacrifié. sheen: lustre, reflet. tears: larmes. twilight: crépuscule. unhappy: malheureux, mécontent. vast: étendu, ample, vaste, large.

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stretching bare brown arms over the glitter of the infernal stream, the stream of darkness. She said suddenly very low, `He died as he lived.' "`His end,' said I, with dull anger stirring in me, `was in every way worthy of his life.' "`And I was not with him,' she murmured. My anger subsided before a feeling of infinite pity.% "`Everything that could be done--' I mumbled. "`Ah, but I believed in him more than anyone on earth--more than his own mother, more than--himself. He needed me! Me! I would have treasured every sigh, every word, every sign, every glance.' "I felt like a chill grip on my chest. `Don't,' I said, in a muffled voice. "`Forgive me. I--I-- have mourned so long in silence--in silence. . . . You were with him--to the last? I think of his loneliness. Nobody near to understand him as I would have understood. Perhaps no one to hear. . . .' "`To the very end,' I said, shakily. `I heard his very last words. . . .' I stopped in a fright. "`Repeat them,' she said in a heart-broken tone. `I want-- I want--something-something--to--to live with.' "I was on the point of crying at her, `Don't you hear them?' The dusk was repeating them in a persistent whisper all around us, in a whisper that seemed to swell menacingly like the first whisper of a rising wind. `The horror! The horror!' "`His last word--to live with,' she murmured. `Don't you understand I loved him--I loved him--I loved him!' "I pulled myself together and spoke slowly. "`The last word he pronounced was--your name.' "I heard a light sigh, and then my heart stood still, stopped dead short by an exulting and terrible cry, by the cry of inconceivable triumph and of unspeakable pain. `I knew it--I was sure!' . . . She knew. She was sure. I heard

French anger: colère. bare: nu, dénudé, mettre à nu. chest: poitrine, coffre, caisse, commode, sein, bac, bahut. chill: froid, refroidir. cry: pleurer, cri, crier, vagir. crying: pleurer. darkness: obscurité, ténèbres. dull: terne, mat, obtus, abêtir, bébête, sot, ennuyeux, monotone. exulting: exultant. grip: agripper, prise, saisir, poignée,

grippe, valise, saignée. horror: horreur, dégoût, aversion, répulsion, abomination, atrocité. infinite: infini, illimité. loved: aimé. menacingly: de manière sinistre, de façon sinistre. mourned: regrettas, regrettèrent, regretté, regrettâtes, regrettai, regretta, regrettâmes. persistent: persistant, persévérant. rising: élévation, levée, lever.

shakily: de manière tremblotante, de façon tremblotante. stream: courant, ruisseau, jet, fleuve, flot, rivière. subsided: s'affaissa, vous affaissâtes, t'affaissas, s'affaissé, nous affaissâmes, m'affaissai, s'affaissèrent. swell: gonfler, houle, enfler, gonflement, grossir, s'enfler, se gonfler. tone: ton, tonalité, tonicité, timbre. triumph: triomphe, triompher.

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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 somber under an overcast sky-- seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.

French altogether: tout, tout à fait, entièrement. apart: particulier, à part, particulièrement, séparément. clouds: nuages. collapse: effondrement, collapsus, effondrer, écroulement, écrouler, s'effondrer, s'écrouler. dark: foncé, sombre, obscur, obscurité, noir. due: dû. ends: finit.

escape: échapper, s'échapper, évasion, échappement, fuite, fuir, enfuis, enfuir. fall: chute, tomber, tombes, tombe, tombez, tombons, tombent, baisse, choir, s'abaisser, s'amoindrir. fallen: tombé, déchu, abattu, chu. hands: mains. heart: coeur, le coeur. hidden: caché, dissimulé, masqué. justice: justice, équité. leading: conduisant, menant, guidant,

aboutissant, plombage, laissant, principal. meditating: méditant, songeant. moved: ému. raised: levé. rendered: plâtras, rendit, rendîmes, rendirent, rendîtes, plâtrèrent, plâtré, plâtrâtes, crépi, rendis, plâtrâmes. silent: silencieux. weeping: pleurant. wonder: s'étonner, miracle, merveille, se demander.

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GLOSSARY abandoned: abandonné, abandonnâmes, abandonnèrent, abandonna, abandonnai, abandonnas, abandonnâtes, délaissé, délaissa, délaissèrent, délaissâtes abandonment: abandon, délaissement, abdication, abandonnement abiding: demeurant, endurant, permanent, soutenant abilities: capacités abject: abject, lâche, pauvre, misérable ablaze: ardant, en feu aboard: à bord abominable: abominable, hideux, abject, odieux, horrible abominate: abominer, abominons, abominez, abomines, abomine, abominent, abhorrer, avoir en abomination, haïr abreast: de front abrupt: abrupt, brusque, raide, inattendu, escarpé, soudain, subit, à pic abruptly: brusquement, abruptement, sèchement, de manière abrupte, de façon abrupte absent: absent absorbed: absorbé, absorba, absorbâmes, absorbèrent, absorbai, absorbas, absorbâtes abstract: abstrait, résumé, abrégé, abstraire, résumer, déduire, abréger, conclure, ôter, réduction de texte, résumé analytique absurd: absurde, aberrant absurdity: absurdité accompaniment: accompagnement accomplish: accomplir, accomplissons, accomplissez, accomplissent, accomplis, réaliser, réalise, réalisons, réalisez, réalisent, réalises accomplished: accompli, accomplîmes, accomplit,

accomplîtes, accomplis, accomplirent, réalisâmes, réalisâtes, réalisèrent, réalisé, réalisai accordance: accord, conformité, convention, concordance, entente according: selon accordingly: donc, en conséquence, par conséquent, ensuite accountant: comptable accumulate: accumuler, accumulons, accumulez, accumulent, accumules, accumule, entasser, entassons, entassez, entassent, entasse accursed: maudit accustomed: accoutumé, accoutumèrent, accoutumâtes, se `habitua, se `habitué, se `habituèrent, te `habituas, nous `habituâmes, vous `habituâtes, accoutumâmes, accoutumai achievements: prouesses, accomplissements acquaintances: connaissances acquainted: renseignai, informèrent, renseignâtes, renseigné, renseignâmes, renseignèrent, renseigna, informâtes, informas, informâmes, informai acquisitions: acquis acted: agi acute: aigu, perçant, aiguë, intense, sagace, coupant, acéré, âcre, aigre, avisé, tranchant acutely: de manière aigue, de façon aigue addresses: adresses adequate: adéquat, adéquate adieu: adieu admiration: admiration admire: admirer, admire, admires, admirons, admirent, admirez admired: admirâtes, admiras, admira, admirèrent, admiré, admirâmes, admirai admirer: admirateur, admiratrice admit: admettre, admettons, admettez, admets, admettent,

avouer, reconnaître, confesser, laisser entrer, permettre adored: adoré, adorâtes, adoras, adorèrent, adorai, adora, adorâmes advance: avance, avancer, s'approcher, avancement, progresser, progrès, promouvoir, acompte, accélérer, inspirer, progression advanced: avancé, poussé, avance advantages: avantages adventure: aventure adventurers: aventuriers adventures: aventures adversary: antagoniste, ennemi advisable: recommandé advised: conseillé afar: loin affair: affaire, chose, cas affection: affection, amour affectionately: affectueusement, de manière affectueuse, de façon affectueuse affirm: affirmer, affirment, affirmons, affirmez, affirme, affirmes, assurer, certifier, garantir affirmation: affirmation, promesse affirmed: affirmé, affirma, affirmai, affirmas, affirmâtes, affirmèrent, affirmâmes afloat: à flot afresh: de nouveau, encore aft: à l'arrière, arrière afterwards: après, ensuite, puis, par la suite, plus tard agent: agent, représentant, intermédiaire, mandataire, commissionnaire, ustensile, instrument, outil, produit ages: vieillit aggravated: aggravé, aggravai, aggrava, aggravâmes, aggravèrent, aggravas, aggravâtes, agaçâtes, agaça, agaçai, agacèrent agitated: agité, agitâtes, agitas, agitâmes, agita, agitai, agitèrent, troublé, troublai, troublèrent,

94 troublâtes agitation: agitation, bagarre, barouf, baroufle, brassage aided: assisté aimlessly: sans but ajar: entrouvert alacrity: avidité, empressement, enthousiasme alarm: alarme, alarmer, alerte, alerter, timbre, sirène, consterner, effroi, abasourdir, abattement, abasourdissement alert: alerte, vif, vigilant, actif, alerter alike: semblable, pareil alive: vivant, en vie alley: allée, ruelle alligators: alligators allowing: permettant alluded: insinua, insinuèrent, insinué, insinuâtes, insinuas, insinuâmes, insinuai alluding: insinuant alone: seul, seulement alongside: le long de, à côté de aloud: à haute voix alpaca: alpaga altogether: tout, tout à fait, entièrement altruistic: altruiste amazed: étonné, étonnèrent, étonnâtes, étonnas, étonnai, étonna, étonnâmes, abasourdi, abasourdie, abasourdirent amazes: étonne amazing: étonnant, stupéfiant, abasourdissant, surprenant amongst: parmi amused: amusé, amusai, amusa, amusâmes, amusèrent, amusas, amusâtes anchor: ancre, ancrer, mouiller, ancrage, fixer, relâcher anchored: ancré anchors: ancre angel: ange anger: colère angry: fâché, en colère, irrité, furieux anguish: angoisse, angoisser animated: animé, animée annoyance: contrariété, désolation, peine, ennui annoyed: chagrinâmes, chagrinai, chagrinas, chagrinâtes, chagriné, chagrinèrent, chagrina, ennuyé, agacé, ennuyèrent, ennuyai annoying: chagrinant, agaçant, ennuyant, indignant, gênant, ennuyeux, embêtant answered: répondue, répondis, répondu, répondus, répondues, répondit anticipated: anticipé, anticipâmes,

Heart of Darkness anticipèrent, anticipa, anticipai, anticipâtes, anticipas, prévu anticipating: anticipant antiquity: antiquité anxiety: anxiété, inquiétude, angoisse anxious: inquiet, agité, anxieux, soucieux, impatient anxiously: de manière inquiète, de façon inquiète anybody: quelqu'un, un, quiconque anyhow: de toute façon anywhere: quelque part, n'importe où apart: particulier, à part, particulièrement, séparément apathy: apathie, abattement apostle: apôtre appalled: consternèrent, consterna, consternai, consternâmes, consternas, consternâtes, consterné appalling: épouvantable, consternant, effroyable appalls: consterne apparition: apparition appealing: suppliant appearance: aspect, apparence, comparution, allure, apparition, spectacle, air appeared: apparu, apparûtes, apparurent, apparut, apparus, apparûmes appearing: apparaissant appetite: appétit appetites: appétits applied: appliqué, appliqua, appliquâtes, appliquas, appliquai, appliquèrent, appliquâmes, pratiquas, pratiquâtes, pratiqué, pratiquâmes appointed: nomma, nommèrent, nommâtes, nommas, nommâmes, nommai, nommé appointment: nomination, rencontre appreciation: appréciation, estimation apprehend: appréhender, appréhende, appréhendes, appréhendez, appréhendent, appréhendons approached: approché approaching: approchant appropriately: proprement, de façon convenable, de manière convenable approve: approuver, approuve, approuves, approuvez, approuvent, approuvons, donner son accord arch: arc, cintre, voûte, arche, arcade architecturally: de manière architectural, de façon architecturale arguing: argumentation, argumentant, arraisonnant, arguant arid: aride

arise: naître, naissons, naissez, nais, naissent, se soulever, surgir, se lever arising: naissant aristocrat: aristocrate, aristo armed: armé arose: naquis, naquit, naquîmes, naquirent, naquîtes arrangement: disposition, arrangement, construction, classement, agencement, aménagement arrested: arrêté arrived: arrivé, arrivas, arrivâtes, arrivai, arriva, arrivâmes, arrivèrent, arrivées arriving: arrivant arrow: flèche artfully: de manière astucieuse, de façon astucieuse articulated: articulé artificial: artificiel, affecté, faux, factice ascend: monter, monte, montes, montons, montez, montent, se soulever ascended: monta, montâmes, montai, montas, montâtes, montèrent, monté ascetic: ascétique, ascète ashore: à terre ashy: cendré, cendre aside: de côté, aparté, excepté asleep: endormi aspect: aspect, allure, apparence, spectacle, air, faciès, exposition aspiration: aspiration, souhait, dépoussiérage ass: âne, baudet, cul assaulted: assailli assented: assentie, assenties, assentirent, assenti asserting: affirmant assistant: adjoint, assistant, aide, auxiliaire assumed: assumé, assumâmes, assumai, assumèrent, assuma, assumâtes, assumas, supposé assurance: assurance, garantie assure: assurer, assure, assures, assurons, assurez, assurent, certifier, garantir, garantis, garantissent, garantissez assured: assuré, assuras, assurâtes, assura, assurèrent, assurai, assurâmes, garantit, garanti, garantîmes, garantirent assuring: assurant, garantissant astern: arrière, en poupe, sur l'arrière astir: agité astonished: étonné, étonnâmes, étonnas, étonnâtes, étonnèrent, étonna, étonnai astonishment: étonnement, surprise

Joseph Conrad astounded: confondu, étonné, confondîtes, confondîmes, stupéfiâmes, stupéfièrent, stupéfié, stupéfiâtes, confondis, stupéfias, confondirent astounding: étonnant, abasourdissant, confondant, stupéfiant athletic: athlétique athwart: en travers, en travers de atmosphere: atmosphère, ambiance atom: atome atrocious: atroce attached: attaché, attachai, attachèrent, attachâmes, attacha, attachâtes, attachas, apposa, apposèrent, apposé, apposâtes attempted: essayèrent, essaya, essayai, essayâmes, essayâtes, essayas, essayé attempting: essayant attempts: essaie attend: être présent, assister, soigner, visiter, soignons, assiste, assistes, assistez, assistons, soigne, soignent attentive: attentif audacity: audace audible: audible audience: audience, auditoire aunt: tante australia: Australie, l'Australie authorize: autoriser, autorise, autorises, autorisent, autorisez, autorisons, permettre autumn: automnal, arrière, saison avenging: vengeant aversion: aversion, antipathie avid: avide avoided: évitâtes, évitas, évité, évitai, évitâmes, évitèrent, évita, esquiva, esquivâtes, esquivé, esquivas awake: éveillé, réveillé awakened: réveillâtes, réveillas, réveillâmes, réveillai, réveillèrent, réveilla, réveillé awakening: réveillant, réveil, éveil awash: à fleur d'eau, inondé awful: horrible, abominable, hideux, abject, odieux, terrible awfully: terriblement, affreusement, de manière horrible, de façon horrible ax: hache babble: murmure confus, bavarder, babiller backbiting: médisant backbone: épine dorsale, dorsale, réseau fédérateur, colonne vertébrale backs: parties arrières, sections arrières badly: mal, de manière mauvaise, de

façon mauvaise baffle: déflecteur, chicane, cloison, baffle, déflecteur acoustique, écran, écran acoustique balancing: équilibrage, balancement, équilibrant, balançant bald: chauve balls: balles bandages: bande, pansements barbarous: barbare bare: nu, dénudé, mettre à nu bared: barré bargain: marchander, négocier, bonne affaire, affaire, occasion, marché barred: barré, barrèrent, barrâtes, barras, barrai, barra, barrâmes barren: stérile, aride, infertile baskets: paniers batch: lot, fournée bath: bain, baignoire, cuvette battered: cabossé, battu, en pâte à frire battlefield: champ de bataille beacon: balise, phare, radiophare, signal beads: perle bear: ours, endurer, produire, souffrir, subir, mettre au monde, baissier, porter, faire naître, supporter beard: barbe beardless: imberbe bearing: coussinet, relèvement, palier, roulement, support bears: ours beastly: bestial, brutal beat: battement, battre, frapper, heurter, temps, rythme beaten: battu, abattue, abattues, battue beating: battement, battage, battant beautifully: de manière belle, de façon belle becalmed: encalminé bedecked: paré, parèrent, parâtes, paras, parâmes, parai, para bedside: chevet beer: bière bees: abeilles beetle: coléoptère, scarabée beg: mendier, mendions, mendiez, mendies, mendie, mendient, demander, prier, quémander, implorer, supplier beggar: mendiant, gueux begged: mendièrent, mendia, mendiai, mendiâmes, mendias, mendiâtes, Mendié beguiled: enjôlâmes, séduisit, séduisîtes, enjôlâtes, séduisirent, enjôlas, séduisîmes, enjôla, enjôlé,

95 enjôlai, séduisis begun: commencé, débuté, commencées behaved: comporté behavior: comportement, conduite, procédé behold: voilà, voici, apercevoir, voir belated: tardif belief: conviction, croyance, foi believed: cru, crûtes, crut, crurent, crûmes, crus bell: cloche, clochette, sonnette, sonnerie belong: appartenir, faire partie de, appartenons, appartenez, appartiens, appartiennent belonged: appartenu, appartins, appartint, appartîntes, appartinrent, appartînmes belonging: appartenant bend: courber, fléchir, coude, courbe, courbure, incliner, ployer, plier, cintrer, virage, baisser bending: courbure, flexion, cintrage, pliage bends: courbe, tournants, cambre benevolence: bienveillance benign: bénin bent: courbé, courbe, courbai, disposition, cambrai, penché bereavement: deuil beset: assaillir besides: en outre, hormis, d'ailleurs, sauf, en prime, et puis, de plus, outre bet: pari, parier, paria betray: trahir, trahissent, trahissez, trahis, trahissons bewildered: éperdu, effarai, effara, effarâtes, effaras, effaré, effarée, effarâmes, effarèrent bewildering: ahurissant, effarant bewilderment: confusion, égarement, ahurissement bewitched: ensorcelâtes, ensorcelas, ensorcela, ensorcelèrent, ensorcelé, ensorcelâmes, ensorcelai bigger: plus grand billowy: houleux binding: bande, bandeau, obligatoire, reliure, contraignant, liaison, fixation binoculars: jumelles, lunette bird: oiseau biscuits: biscuits biting: mordant, âpre, morsure bits: bits bitter: amer, âcre, acerbe bitterly: amèrement, de manière amère, de façon amère bitterness: amertume, âcreté bizarre: bizarre, singulier

96 blackness: noirceur blacks: noirs, schiste argileux tendre blade: lame, ailette, aube, lame tranchante, chaume, pale, palette blamed: blâmé blank: blanc, vide, formulaire, espace, ébauche, vierge, lopin, flan blanket: couverture, couche fertile, déventer, la couverture, nappe blankets: couverture blasting: décapage à l'abrasif, travail aux explosifs, minage, sautage blaze: flamme, feu, flamber blazing: éclatant, étincelant, griffage, en flammes, flamboyer, en feu, enflammé blessings: bénédictions blew: soufflâmes, soufflai, soufflèrent, souffla blind: aveugle, éblouir, aveugler, store, éblouissons, aveuglez, aveuglent, éblouissez, aveugles, éblouissent, éblouis blinding: aveuglant, colmatage, éblouissant blindly: aveuglément, de manière aveugle, de façon aveugle blinds: aveugle, éblouit blinked: clignoté bloodshot: injecté de sang bloodthirsty: sanguinaire blow: coup, souffler, bataille, souffler sur, souffle blown: soufflé blundered: embrouillai, embrouillées, embrouillâmes blurred: flou, floué blush: rougir, rougeur boast: fanfaronner, vanter, faire le malin, se vanter boat: bateau, barque, canot, embarcation, navire boding: présageant boiler: chaudière, chaudron bolts: boulons, témoins bond: lien, obligation, liaison, coller, adhérence, titres, lier, bon, cautionnement bone: os, désosser, arête bones: os bony: osseux bookkeeping: comptabilité boot: botte, coffre, amorcer, amorce, tétine boots: bottes border: frontière, bord, bordure, lisière, rive, border, cadre, encadrer bordered: bordé bosom: sein, poitrine bother: gêner, déranger, ennuyer, ennui, embêter bothering: ennuyant

Heart of Darkness bottle: bouteille, embouteiller, flacon bottom: fond, derrière, cul, croupe, bas, dessous, inférieur bound: bond, lié, limite, relié bounds: bornes bow: arc, proue, archet, avant, s'incliner, saluer bowels: intestins bowing: cintrage, déformation en arc, bombage bows: épaulure, boucles, courbures boxes: boîtes boyhood: enfance boyish: puéril, de garçon, enfantin brag: fanfaronner, faire le malin, se vanter brain: cerveau, cervelle brass: laiton, airain breaking: rupture, broyage, fracture, floculation, brisement breast: poitrine, sein, mamelle, front de taille breastbone: bréchet, sternum breasts: poitrine, seins breath: souffle, haleine, respiration, le souffle breathe: respirer, respire, respires, respirent, respirons, respirez breathed: respiras, respirâtes, respirèrent, respira, respiré, respirâmes, respirai breathing: respirant, respiration breathless: hors d'haleine, haletant, essoufflé breeches: culotte, culasses, culotte d'équitation, culotte de tuyère breeze: brise, souffle brick: brique bricks: briques bright: clair, lumineux, luisant, brillant, vif, magnifique, éclatant brightened: avivâtes, éclairci, éclaircîtes, éclaircit, éclaircis, éclaircirent, éclaircîmes, avivé, avivas, avivâmes, avivai brightly: de manière claire, de façon claire brilliance: éclat, brillance, brillant, lustre brilliant: brillant, magnifique, luisant, éclatant, génial bringing: apportant, amenant brings: apporte, amène brink: bord, lisière bristly: hirsute, ébouriffé, hérissé broad: large, ample broadening: élargissant broadly: largement, de façon large, de manière large broke: fauché, cassai, cassés de fabrication bronze: bronze, airain, bronzer

brooding: élevage des poussins brotherly: fraternel brow: sourcil, front brushed: brossés, brossé, brossées, brossai, brossa, brossâmes brusque: brusque, à la hussarde brutal: maussade brutally: de manière maussade, de façon maussade brute: brute buddha: Bouddha bulging: gonflage, gonflement bunch: bouquet, botte, paquet, tas bundle: paquet, ballot, faisceau, liasse, botte, faisceau de fibres bundles: paquets burglars: cambrioleurs buried: enterrâtes, enterras, enterré, enterrâmes, enterra, enterrai, enterrèrent, ensevelîtes, inhumèrent, inhumas, inhumâtes burned: brûlé burning: brûlant, combustion, cuisson, brûlure burnt: brûlé burst: crever, éclater, salve, rafale, explosion, choc d'ionisation, éclatement, bouffée bursting: éclatement bury: enterrer, enterre, enterres, enterrez, enterrons, enterrent, inhumer, ensevelir, inhumons, inhumez, inhumes bush: buisson, arbuste, arbrisseau, bague, coussinet, douille, brousse, taillis bushes: buissons butcher: boucher, abattre, égorger, massacrer butted: renforts latéraux button: bouton, boutonner buttoned: boutonné buzz: bourdonnement, bourdonner, ronronner, crachement, vrombir, vrombissement buzzed: bourdonné cabin: cabine, cabane, hutte, chaumière, cabine de bateau cage: cage calamity: calamité, plaie, fléau calico: calicot calipers: compas calling: appelant, appel callous: calleux, dur calm: calme, tranquille, calmer, abattre, paisible, quiet, rassurer, repos, accalmie, tranquilliser camp: camp, camper, campement camping: camping, campant camps: campe candle: bougie, chandelle, cierge candor: franchise, sincérité

Joseph Conrad cane: canne, bâton, roseau, jonc, canner, rotin canoe: canoë, faire du canoë canvas: canevas, toile cap: casquette, bonnet, toque, chapeau, capsule, calotte, coiffe, capuchon, bouchon, culot, couvercle capable: capable, compétent capacities: capacités capers: câpres captain: capitaine, commandant, capitaine de vaisseau captains: capitaines captive: captif captured: capturé caravan: caravane, roulotte carcass: carcasse, gros œuvre careful: prudent, soigneux, attentif careless: négligent, distrait, étourdi, insouciant caressed: caressé carriage: wagon, chariot, voiture, affût carrier: porteur, porteuse, chariot, entraîneur, support carrying: portant, transportant carved: ciselâmes, ciselas, ciselâtes, ciselé, taillâmes, taillèrent, taillâtes, taillas, tailla, taillai, ciselèrent castle: château, tour, château fort casual: désinvolte casually: de manière désinvolte, de façon désinvolte cat: chat, rosse, mégère, peau de vache catacomb: catacombe catch: attraper, attrape, attrapes, attrapons, attrapent, attrapez, prise, prenez, prends, prenons, prennent catching: attrapant, prenant, capturant, accroche, frappant causes: cause caution: prudence, avertir, alerter, avertissement, attention, précaution cautious: prudent, circonspect cautiously: avec précaution, de manière prudente, de façon prudente ceased: cessé ceiling: plafond cemetery: cimetière center: centre, centrer, axe ceremonies: cérémonies chaff: balle, menue paille, paillette chain: chaîne, chaînette, enchaînement, enchaîner chains: chaînes chairs: chaises champagne: champagne champing: mâchonnant changing: changeant, changement channel: canal, tube, chenal, voie,

tuyau, voie de transmission, canal radioélectrique, conduit, la Manche, canaliser, chaîne chaos: chaos chap: individu, type, gerçure, gercer chapman: colporteur chaps: jambières de cuir, types charitable: indulgent, sensible charm: charme, amulette, ravir, charmer, breloque charmed: charmé charming: charmant, ravissant, gentil, mignon chasing: ciselure, filetage au peigne, chassant chat: bavarder, bavardage, causerie, conversation, babiller, babil, babillage, causer chattering: cliquetis, claquement, bavarder, broutage cheap: bon marché, abordable checked: à carreaux, quadrillé checks: chèques, enraye cheek: joue, la joue, chape cheeks: joues cheer: acclamation, acclamer, applaudir cheerful: gai, joyeux cheery: gai chest: poitrine, coffre, caisse, commode, sein, bac, bahut chiefs: chefs childish: enfantin, puéril chill: froid, refroidir chills: frissons chilly: froid, frais, frileux, de manière froide, de façon froide chin: menton choked: étouffé chorus: chœur cipher: chiffre, chiffrer circle: cercle, rond, ronde, encercler circuitous: détourné circumvent: circuler, circule, circulons, circulez, circulent, circules circumventing: circulant citizen: citoyen civility: civilité civilization: civilisation civilize: civiliser, civilisons, civilisez, civilisent, civilises, civilise civilized: civilisé, civilisâmes, civilisèrent, civilisai, civilisa, civilisâtes, civilisas civilly: de façon civile, de manière civile, civilement clambered: grimpâmes, grimpèrent, grimpé, grimpas, grimpai, grimpa, grimpâtes clammy: humide, moite clamor: clameur clap: claquer, applaudir,

97 applaudissement clapped: claqués, claquées, claquâmes, claquai, claqua clapping: claquage clatter: cliquetis clay: argile clearing: clairière, dégagement, défrichement, éclaircie clenched: rivé clerical: clérical clerk: commis, greffier cleverly: de manière habile, de façon habile, habilement clew: point d'écoute cliff: falaise climb: grimper, gravir, monter, montée clinging: collant, se cramponnant, adhérant clink: choquer, crique, tintement, fissure à chaud, faire tinter, tapure, tapure à chaud cloak: manteau closes: ferme cloth: tissu, étoffe, toile, linge, chiffon cloths: tissus clouds: nuages cloudy: nuageux clump: bouquet, touffe clumsily: maladroitement, de manière maladroite, de façon maladroite clustered: en grappe, en grappes clutched: agriffa, agriffèrent, agriffées, agriffai, agriffé, saisi coast: côte, bord, côte rivage coat: manteau, enduire, pardessus, couche, capote, paletot, pelage, enrober, napper coin: pièce de monnaie collapse: effondrement, collapsus, effondrer, écroulement, écrouler, s'effondrer, s'écrouler collapsed: effondré collar: col, collier, collet, collerette, bague collars: cols colleague: collègue, confrère collected: recueillirent, recueilli, recueillit, recueillîtes, recueillîmes, recueillis, rassembla, rassemblèrent, rassemblas, rassemblâmes, rassemblai colonists: colons color: couleur, colorer colored: coloré colorless: incolore, sans couleur colors: colore colossal: énorme, immense, formidable columnar: colonnaire, basaltique columns: colonnes

98 comfort: confort, consoler, consolation, réconfort, réconforter command: commande, commandement, commander, ordre, ordonner, enjoindre, sommer, instruction, ordre de commande commander: commandant, capitaine de frégate commandingly: de manière ordonnée, de façon ordonnée commencement: début, commencement, inauguration commented: commenté commerce: commerce commingling: mélange commissioned: de commande, commissionnées, commissionnâmes, commissionnai commonplace: banal, trivial commotion: agitation, scandale, commotion compact: compact, compacter companion: compagnon, camarade, compagne, accompagnateur comparative: comparatif comparatively: comparativement, de manière comparative, de façon comparative compare: comparer, comparons, comparez, comparent, compare, compares, comparaison compassionate: compatissant complaining: plainte completed: complété complexion: teint, complexion composed: composé, composa, composèrent, composâmes, composai, composâtes, composas, tranquille, calme composing: composant, montage, composition composure: repos comprehend: comprendre, comprennent, comprends, comprenez, comprenons comprehension: compréhension comprehensive: compréhensif, complet, vaste compressed: compressé, comprimé conceal: cacher, cachons, cachez, cachent, caches, cache, dissimuler, dissimulons, dissimulez, dissimule, dissimulent concealed: caché, cachâmes, cachai, cacha, cachèrent, cachas, cachâtes, dissimulé, dissimulas, dissimula, dissimulèrent conceive: concevoir, concevez, conçoivent, conçois, concevons concentrated: concentré, concentrâmes, concentrai, concentra, concentrèrent, concentras,

Heart of Darkness concentrâtes, dense conception: conception concluded: conclu, conclûmes, conclut, conclus, conclurent, conclûtes conclusion: conclusion, résultat condemnation: condamnation condemning: condamnant condensed: condensé, condensai, condensa, condensèrent, condensâmes, condensas, condensâtes conduct: conduire, conduite, guider, diriger, mener, aboutir, procédé, régler conducted: conduit, conduite, conduites, amenée, mené, amené, conduisit confess: confesser, avouer, confessent, confessons, confessez, confesses, confesse, avouent, avouons, avoues, avoue confessed: confessé, confessai, confessâmes, confessa, confessèrent, confessas, confessâtes, avoué, avouâtes, avouèrent, avouâmes confident: confiant, assuré confidential: confidentiel confidentially: de manière confidentielle, de façon confidentielle confidently: de manière confiante, de façon confiante confound: confondre, déconcerter confounded: confondu confoundedly: de manière confondue, de façon confondue confronted: affronté, affrontâmes, affronta, affrontèrent, affrontai, affrontas, affrontâtes, confronta, confrontai, confrontèrent, confrontâmes confronting: affrontant, confrontant confused: confondu, confondis, confondit, confondîmes, confondîtes, confondirent, confus confusedly: de manière confuse, de façon confuse congregated: réunit, réunis, réuni, réunîmes, réunîtes, réunirent connect: connecter, connectez, connectent, connectons, connectes, connecte, joindre, relier, aboucher, attacher, allier connected: connecté, connectèrent, connectai, connectâmes, connectas, connectâtes, connecta, cohérent, branché, abouché, abouchèrent connoisseur: connaisseur conquered: conquis, conquit, conquîtes, conquîmes, conquirent conquering: conquérant

conquest: conquête conscious: conscient consciousness: conscience, connaissance consequences: effets considerably: considérablement, de façon considérable, de manière considérable consistently: de manière cohérente, de façon cohérente constant: constant, continuel, constante, invariable, perpétuel, permanent constantly: constamment, continuellement, de manière constante, de façon constante consume: consommer, consommez, consomment, consomme, consommons, consommes, consumer, consument, consumez, consumons, consume consumed: consomma, consommai, consommé, consommèrent, consommâmes, consommas, consommâtes, consumèrent, consuma, consumâmes, consumai contained: contenu, continrent, contînmes, contins, contint, contîntes, renfermâmes, renfermèrent, renfermé, renfermas, renfermai contaminated: contaminé, contaminai, contaminèrent, contamina, contaminâmes, contaminâtes, contaminas, souillé contempt: mépris contemptible: méprisable contemptibly: de manière méprisable, de façon méprisable contemptuously: de manière méprisante, de façon méprisante contentedly: de manière satisfaite, de façon satisfaite contest: concours, contester, disputer continent: continent continental: continental continuous: continu, permanent, continuel continuously: continuellement, de manière continue, de façon continue contorted: tordu, tordirent, tordîtes, tordîmes, tordit, tordis contracts: contracte contrary: contraire, opposé, contradictoire contributed: contribuâmes, contribuai, contribua, contribuèrent, contribué, contribuas, contribuâtes conversation: conversation convey: transmettre conveyed: transmis, véhiculé, véhiculai, véhiculèrent, véhiculâtes,

Joseph Conrad véhiculâmes, véhicula, transmîtes, transmit, transmirent, acheminèrent conviction: conviction, condamnation convinced: convaincu, convainquit, convainquis, convainquirent, convainquîmes, convainquîtes convulsively: de manière convulsive, de façon convulsive cook: cuisinier, cuisiner, cuire, cuisinière cookery: cuisine cool: frais, refroidir, froid core: noyau, coeur, âme, centre, trognon, carotte, tore, mandrin corpse: cadavre, corps corpses: cadavres corrected: corrigé correspondence: correspondance corruption: corruption cottage: cabanon, petite maison cotton: coton, ouate couch: canapé, divan, presse coucheuse counsel: conseil, conseiller, avis, avocat, défenseur countenance: encourager counting: comptage, compte, comptant, dénombrement countless: incalculable, innombrable courage: courage, abattage courtyard: cour cousin: cousin, cousine covered: couvert covering: revêtement, couverture, couvrure, couvrant, housse, habillage, recouvrement, saillie covers: couvre, bâche, recouvre cracked: fêlé cracks: fissures craft: embarcation, métier, artisanat, engin cravat: foulard craven: lâche, poltron crawl: ramper, crawl crawled: rampé crawling: rampage, rampant crazy: fou, dingue, aberrant, agité creation: création creature: créature creek: crique, ruisseau creeping: rampant, rampage creepy: terrifiant crept: rampa, rampèrent, rampâtes, rampas, rampai, rampâmes, rampé crested: huppé crestfallen: déçu, déconfit, découragé crew: équipage, équipe cried: pleuré cries: pleure crimson: cramoisi cripple: estropié, paralyser crook: escroc, crosse, courbure,

coude, houlette crooked: tordu crop: récolte, couper, jabot œsophagien, jabot, rogner crossed: croisé crossing: croisement, traversée, croisée, intersection crouched: accroupi crowd: foule, masse, amas, tas, multitude, cohue crowded: bondé, encombré crowds: foules cruel: cruel, atroce, méchant cry: pleurer, cri, crier, vagir crying: pleurer crystal: cristal, quartz culminated: culminé, culmina, culminai, culminâmes, culminas, culminâtes, culminèrent culminating: culminant cunning: rusé, malin, astucieux, artificieux, ruse, sournois, rouerie curiosity: curiosité curious: curieux, intéressant, singulier curiously: avec curiosité, de manière curieuse, de façon curieuse currency: monnaie, devise, unité monétaire cursing: maudissant curt: brusque curtain: rideau curtly: de manière brusque, de façon brusque, sèchement curved: courbe, courbé curves: courbes, parenthèsestre curving: courbage, courbure de cylindre, courbement, cintrage, incurvation de la chaîne cushion: coussin, coussinet customs: douane, moeurs cutting: coupe, coupant, découpage, bouture, découpe, acéré, mordant cylinders: cylindres damp: humide, amortir, humidité, mouiller dance: danse, danser, bal danced: dansé dangling: ballant, pendillant dare: oser, aventurer, ose, osons, osez, oses, osent, aventurez, aventures, aventurent, aventure dared: osé, osa, osai, osèrent, osâtes, osâmes, osas, aventurèrent, aventurâtes, aventura, aventuras darkly: de façon foncée, de manière foncée darkness: obscurité, ténèbres dart: dard, fléchette dash: tiret, trait dazzling: éblouissant, éblouir, éclatant

99 deadened: amorti, amortîmes, amortîtes, amortit, amortis, amortirent deadly: mortel, meurtrier, de façon morte, de manière morte deaf: sourd deafened: assourdi, assourdîmes, assourdîtes, assourdit, assourdirent, assourdis decaying: pourrir deceitful: trompeur decent: convenable, décent, honnête deciphered: déchiffré, déchiffrai, déchiffra, déchiffrâmes, déchiffrèrent, déchiffras, déchiffrâtes deck: pont decked: orné, pontée, ponté, ornèrent, ornâtes, ornas, ornâmes, orna, ornai declaim: déclamer declare: déclarer, déclarent, déclarons, déclarez, déclare, déclares declared: déclaré, déclara, déclarai, déclarèrent, déclarâmes, déclaras, déclarâtes decline: déclin, décliner, diminuer, dépérir, baisse, refuser, régression declivity: déclivité decorous: bienséant deepen: approfondir, approfondissez, approfondis, approfondissent, approfondissons deepened: approfondi, approfondirent, approfondis, approfondit, approfondîtes, approfondîmes deepening: approfondissant, approfondissement deeper: plusieurs traductions selon le contexte deepest: le plus profond defeat: défaite, vaincre, abattre, surmonter defeats: vainc defend: défendre, défendent, défends, défendons, défendez defended: défendu, défendirent, défendis, défendit, défendîmes, défendîtes defensive: défensif, défensive defer: différer, différez, différons, diffère, diffèrent, diffères deficiencies: déficiences deficiency: déficience, carence, insuffisance, manque, défaut define: définir, définer, définissez, définissent, définissons, définis, fixer, déterminer, préciser definite: définitif, défini, ferme definition: définition

100 degradation: dégradation delay: retard, délai, retarder, différer, ajourner, sursis, suspendre, renvoyer, reculer delays: retards, sursied deliberate: délibéré, délibérer, intentionnel deliberately: exprès, délibérément, de manière délibérée, de façon délibérée delicate: délicat, tendre, fragile delicately: de manière délicate, de façon délicate delicious: délicieux, savoureux delight: délice, enchanter, ravir, plaisir delightful: délicieux, ravissant, charmant, superbe delivered: livré, livrâmes, livra, livrèrent, livrai, livrâtes, livras delusion: illusion demanded: exigé demands: exige demoralization: découragement, démoralisation denominate: dénommer, dénomment, dénommons, dénommez, dénomme, dénommes deny: nier, niez, nions, nient, nie, nies, démentir, renier departed: parti, partîmes, partirent, partis, partit, partîtes departs: part departure: départ, disparition depended: dépendis, dépendit, dépendu, dépendirent, dépendîmes, dépendîtes dependency: dépendance deplorable: déplorable depressing: déprimant depth: profondeur, creux, intensité depths: profondeurs descended: descendu, descendirent, descendîmes, descendîtes, descendis, descendit descent: descente, descendance, origine description: description, signalement desert: désert, abandonner, délaisser, quitter, déserter, livrer deserted: déserté deserved: mérité, méritâmes, méritèrent, méritai, mérita, méritas, méritâtes deserves: mérite desire: désir, désirer, souhait, souhaiter, envie desired: désiré desk: pupitre, bureau desolate: désolé, sombre, morne desolation: désolation, dévastation, solitude

Heart of Darkness despair: désespoir, désespérer desperate: désespéré desperately: de manière désespérée, de façon désespérée, désespérément desperation: désespoir despondency: découragement despondently: de manière découragée, de façon découragée destiny: destinée, destin, sort, destination, fortune destitution: indigence, misère determined: déterminé, déterminai, déterminâmes, déterminèrent, détermina, déterminas, déterminâtes, décidé detest: détester, détestons, détestent, détestez, déteste, détestes detestable: détestable detonation: détonation, explosion deuce: égalité, deux devastation: dévastation devil: diable devilish: diabolique, diablement devils: diables devoted: dévoué, consacré, consacra, consacrai, consacrâmes, consacras, consacrâtes, consacrèrent, affectueux, attaché devotion: dévotion, dévouement devour: dévorer, dévorent, dévorons, dévores, dévore, dévorez dew: rosée diabolic: diabolique diagrams: diagrammes dialect: dialecte diaphanous: diaphane dice: dé, dés dictated: dicta, dictèrent, dictâmes, dictai, dicté, dictâtes, dictas dictation: dictée die: mourir, mourons, meurent, meurs, mourez, décéder, décède, décédons, décédez, décèdent, décèdes digging: creusant, creusement dignified: digne dignitary: dignitaire dignity: dignité dilated: dilaté, dilata, dilatèrent, dilatâtes, dilatas, dilatai, dilatâmes dim: faible, sombre, obscur, brouiller, rendre confus, rendre trouble dimensions: dimensions dimly: de manière faible, de façon faible dining: dînant directed: dirigé dirt: saleté, boue, crasse dirty: sale disappear: disparaître, disparaissez, disparaissent, disparais, disparaissons

disappeared: disparu, disparus, disparurent, disparut, disparûmes, disparûtes disappointment: déception, désolation, peine, désappointement disapproved: repoussa, repoussâmes, repoussèrent, repoussas, repoussai, repoussâtes discern: discerner disciple: disciple disclaim: désavouer, désavouent, désavouez, désavouons, désavoue, désavoues disclose: divulguer disclosing: divulguant discolored: décoloré, décolora, décolorèrent, décolorâtes, décolorai, décolorâmes, décoloras discovered: découvert, découvrîmes, découvrirent, découvris, découvrit, découvrîtes, dépouillai, dépouillèrent, dépouillé, dépouillâtes, dépouillâmes discovery: découverte discretion: discrétion, prudence, précaution discussing: discutant, débattant disdainful: dédaigneux disguising: déguisant disgust: dégoût disgusted: dégoûté dishonor: déshonneur, déshonorer, refus d'acceptation dishonoring: déshonorant dismantled: démonté, démantelâmes, démantelai, démantelé, démantelèrent, démantela, démantelas, démontèrent, démontâtes, démontas, démontâmes disorderly: désordonné disparagingly: de manière désobligeante, de façon désobligeante display: affichage, parader, afficher, étalage, étaler, visualisation, pompe, exposition, afficheur displayed: affiché, en affichage, affichâmes, affichai, montré, afficha, affichés, affichées dispose: disposer, disposons, disposez, disposent, dispose, disposes disposition: disposition, don, dispositif, aptitude, talent dissipated: dissipé dissolve: dissoudre, dissolvons, dissolvez, dissolvent, dissous, résoudre, dissout dissolving: dissolvant distant: lointain, loin, distant, éloigné distaste: dégoût distinct: net, clair, limpide, distinct

Joseph Conrad distinction: distinction distinctly: distinctement, de manière nette, de façon nette distinguish: distinguer, distinguent, distinguez, distinguons, distingues, distingue, dégager, identifier, dégage, dégagent, dégageons distract: distraire, distrayez, distrais, distrayons, distraient disturbed: dérangé, dérangèrent, dérangea, dérangeai, dérangeâmes, dérangeâtes, dérangeas, gêna, gênai, gênâmes, gênas diver: plongeur, scaphandrier divine: divin document: document, documenter, acte, titre, pièce documents: documente dodged: esquivé dominant: dominant donkey: âne, baudet donkeys: ânes doors: portes doorstep: seuil door-step: seuil de porte doorway: embrasure dose: dose, doser, dose de rayonnement dough: pâte downcast: abattu downward: descendant, vers le bas doze: sommeiller dozed: sommeillai, sommeillâmes, sommeillas, sommeillâtes, sommeillé, sommeillèrent, sommeilla dragged: traîné, traîna, traînai, traînâmes, traînas, traînâtes, traînèrent drake: canard mâle, malard, canard draped: drapé, drapâmes, drapai, drapèrent, drapa, drapas, drapâtes draping: drapant draws: dessine, puise, appâte, trace dream: rêve, rêver, songe, songer, rêver éveillé dreary: morne, triste, affreux, épouvantable, sombre, maussade, désagréable, désert, désolé, abominable, horrible dress: robe, habiller, vêtir, panser, s'habiller, revêtir, dresser, apprêter, habit, habillement, garnir dried: sec, séché drift: dérive, dériver, déport du foret, mouvement drifting: dérive drip: goutte, dégoutter, tuyau de purge, tomber goutte à goutte, perfusion, goutter, exsudat, ruisseler driven: conduit, poussé, pourchassé, piloté, actionné

droll: drôle drone: drone, bourdon droop: pendre, retomber, abattement, affaissement drop: goutte, tomber, chute, abattre, faire tomber, abandonner, baisser, baisse, laisser tomber, goutte d'eau, s'amoindrir dropping: largage drove: conduisirent, conduisîtes, poussèrent, poussâtes, poussas, poussâmes, poussai, poussa, conduisit, conduisis, conduisîmes drowned: noyé, noya, noyèrent, noyâmes, noyai, noyâtes, noyas drowsiness: somnolence drum: tambour, fût drums: batterie drunk: ivre, bu, soûl drying: séchage, dessiccation, séchant dubious: douteux duffer: cancre dug: creusé, creusâmes, creusèrent, creusa, creusai, creusas, creusâtes dull: terne, mat, obtus, abêtir, bébête, sot, ennuyeux, monotone dumb: muet dumbfounded: abasourdi, éberlué, abasourdîmes, abasourdîtes, abasourdit, abasourdirent, abasourdis dumbness: mutité, mutisme dummy: factice, faux, mannequin, aspirateur, soucette, tétine, sucette, maquette dusk: crépuscule dusty: poussiéreux dutch: néerlandais, hollandais dutchman: hollandais, néerlandais dwelling: habitation, demeurant, demeure, domicile, logement, logis, logeant, gîte dying: mourant, décédant eager: avide, désireux eagerly: de manière avide, de façon avide eagerness: avidité ear: oreille, épi earliest: le plus tôt earn: gagner, gagnez, gagnent, gagnons, gagne, gagnes, remporter earnestly: sérieusement, de manière sérieuse, de façon sérieuse ears: oreilles earthly: terrestre earthy: terreux ease: aise, soulager, aisance, facilité easing: dégagement des noyaux, soulagement eatable: mangeable, comestible eaten: mangé eating: mangeant

101 ebb: reflux, marée descendante, jusant, refluer ebbing: jusant, baissant echo: écho, résonner, répercussion, écho simple ecstatically: de manière extatique, de façon extatique eddy: tourbillon, remous edged: déligné edging: lisière, bord, bordure, bordage edifying: édifiant educated: éduquâmes, éduquai, éduquèrent, éduqua, éduqué, éduquas, éduquâtes, cultivé eerie: étrange, sinistre effaced: effacé, effaça, effaçai, effaçâmes, effaças, effaçâtes, effacèrent effectually: de manière efficace, de façon efficace efficiency: efficacité, rendement, efficience, effet utile ejected: expulsé, expulsèrent, nous éjectâmes, s'éjecta, s'éjecté, expulsas, t'éjectas, expulsâtes, vous éjectâtes, s'éjectèrent, expulsai elbow: coude elder: sureau, aîné, ancien eldorado: eldorado electrified: électrisé, électrisa, électrisèrent, électrisâmes, électrisai, électrisâtes, électrisas elegance: élégance elephant: éléphant elevated: élevé, élevâmes, élevèrent, élevas, élevai, éleva, élevâtes elevation: élévation, altitude, vue en élévation, cote, altitude topographique, hauteur elicited: provoqué, provoquèrent, provoqua, provoquai, provoquâmes, provoquas, provoquâtes eloquence: éloquence eloquent: éloquent embalm: embaumer, embaument, embaumons, embaumez, embaume, embaumes embers: braise embrace: embrasser, étreinte, prendre dans les bras, embrassade, embrassement, embrassent embraced: embrassé embracing: embrassant emerged: émergeâmes, émergèrent, émergé, émergeai, émergea, émergeâtes, émergeas, surgi, surgîmes, surgirent, surgis emissary: émissaire emitted: émis, émit, émîtes, émîmes, émirent emotion: émotion

102 emotions: émotions emphasis: emphase, accentuation, accent empire: empire employed: employé employers: employeurs emptied: vidé emptiness: vide, vacuité encamped: campé, campa, campai, campâmes, campas, campâtes, campèrent enchanted: enchanté, enchantâmes, enchantai, enchantèrent, enchanta, enchantas, enchantâtes enchantment: enchantement enclosures: enclos encounter: rencontre, rencontrer, rencontrons, rencontrent, rencontrez, rencontres, abord encouragingly: de manière encourageante, de façon encourageante endanger: compromettre, mettre en danger ended: terminé ending: fin, bout, finissant endless: interminable, infini, sans fin ends: finit engaged: engagé, engageai, engagea, engageâmes, engagèrent, engageas, engageâtes, occupé engagement: engagement, fiançailles, enclenchement, accordailles engine: moteur, machine, locomotive, propulseur engine-driver: conducteur de locomotive engineer: ingénieur, mécanicien englishman: anglais enigma: énigme, puzzle enjoyment: jouissance, usufruit enlarge: agrandir, agrandissons, agrandissez, agrandis, agrandissent, étendre, accroître, augmenter, amplifier enlarged: agrandi, agrandirent, agrandîmes, agrandîtes, agrandis, agrandit enlighten: éclairer, éclairent, éclairons, éclairez, éclaires, éclaire, illuminer enlisted: enrôlé, enrôlèrent, enrôlâtes, enrôlas, enrôlâmes, enrôla, enrôlai enormous: énorme, immense, formidable ensign: pavillon entangled: empêtré, empêtra, empêtrèrent, empêtrâtes, empêtras, empêtrâmes, empêtrai, entortillâtes, entortillèrent, entortilla, entortillai enter: entrer, entre, entrons, entrez, entrent, entres, introduire, entrer

Heart of Darkness dans, inscrire, introduis, introduisons entered: entrèrent, entrâmes, entré, entrai, entra, entras, entrâtes, introduisîtes, introduit, introduisit, introduisis enterprise: entreprise enthralling: captivant, passionnant enthusiasm: enthousiasme enthusiast: passionné, enthousiaste enthusiastic: enthousiaste entrails: entrailles entreated: supplié, supplièrent, suppliâtes, supplias, suppliâmes, suppliai, supplia, imploré, implorâtes, imploras, implorâmes entries: jeux d'écriture comptables enveloped: enveloppé, enveloppâmes, enveloppai, enveloppèrent, enveloppa, enveloppas, enveloppâtes envelopes: enveloppes enveloping: enveloppant envied: envié, envia, enviai, envièrent, enviâmes, envias, enviâtes envy: envie, envier, enviez, envions, envient, envies, jalousie episode: épisode epoch: époque equator: équateur equipped: équipé, équipâmes, équipa, équipai, équipèrent, équipas, équipâtes equitable: équitable erect: fonder, droit, ériger, construire, édifier, bâtir errors: erreurs escape: échapper, s'échapper, évasion, échappement, fuite, fuir, enfuis, enfuir escort: escorte, convoyeur, accompagnement, escorter, accompagner, reconduire escorted: escorté essence: essence essentially: essentiellement, de manière essentielle, de façon essentielle essentials: essentiel estimated: estimé, évalué, estimâmes, estimèrent, estimai, estima, évaluâmes, évaluai, évalua, estimâtes, évaluâtes estuary: estuaire eternal: éternel, perpétuel eternity: éternité evanescence: évanescence evanescent: évanescent everlasting: éternel, perpétuel, permanent, interminable, infini, immortelle, inusable

everlastingly: de manière éternelle, de façon éternelle everyday: vulgaire everywhere: partout evident: évident, manifeste evidently: évidemment, de manière évidente, de façon évidente evil: mal, mauvais evoke: évoquer, évoques, évoquent, évoque, évoquez, évoquons, rappeler exact: exact, juste exaltation: exaltation exalted: exalté examining: examinant, fouillant exasperated: exaspéras, exaspérâtes, exaspéré, exaspérèrent, exaspéra, exaspérai, exaspérâmes exasperating: exaspérant excellently: de façon excellente, de manière excellente, excellemment except: sauf, excepter, hormis, excepté, exempter, dispenser, exclure, en outre, à moins que exceptional: exceptionnel excessive: excessif, immodéré, excessive excessively: de manière excessive, de façon excessive, excessivement exchanged: échangées excitable: excitable excited: excitas, excitâtes, excité, excitai, excitèrent, excita, excitâmes, hérissèrent, hérissé, hérissâtes, hérissas exclaimed: exclamas, exclamâtes, exclamé, exclama, exclamai, exclamâmes, exclamèrent exclaiming: exclamant excuse: excuser, dispenser, excuse, pardonner, excusez exert: pratiquer, pratiquent, pratiques, pratiquez, pratique, pratiquons, efforcer, exercer exhaled: exhalèrent, exhala, exhalâmes, exhalas, exhalâtes, exhalai, exhalé exhaustion: épuisement exile: exiler, bannir, banni, exil, bannissement, exilé exist: exister, existes, existe, existons, existent, existez existed: existâtes, existas, existai, existâmes, existé, exista, existèrent exotic: exotique expanse: étendue expansive: expansif expectation: espérance, expectative, espérance mathématique expecting: attendant expedition: expédition expeditions: expéditions

Joseph Conrad expended: dépensé, dépensa, dépensai, dépensâmes, dépensas, dépensâtes, dépensèrent expenses: dépense, frais, dépenses, charges, sortie experiences: expériences explained: expliquâtes, expliquas, expliqua, expliquâmes, expliquai, expliqué, expliquèrent explaining: expliquant explanations: explications exploration: exploration, reconnaissance, recherche, prospection exploring: explorant, fouillant, recherchant, explorer exposition: exposition exposure: exposition, pose, risque expounded: exposèrent, exposa, exposai, exposâmes, exposas, exposâtes, exposé express: exprimer, exprimes, exprime, exprimons, exprimez, expriment, exprès, répandre, représenter, express, expresse expressed: exprimas, exprimâtes, exprimé, exprimèrent, exprimâmes, exprimai, exprima expressive: expressif exquisite: exquis extend: étendre, étendent, étends, étendons, étendez, ampleur, importance, prolonger, grandeur, taille, s'étendre extended: étendîtes, étendu, étendis, étendirent, étendîmes, étendit extensive: étendu, extensif, ample, vaste, large exterior: extérieur, aspect, vue, spectacle exterminate: exterminer, extermine, extermines, exterminent, exterminez, exterminons, supprimer external: externe, extérieur extraordinary: extraordinaire, prodigieux, formidable, singulier extravagance: extravagance extravagant: extravagant extreme: extrême extremity: extrémité exuberant: exubérant exultation: exultation exulted: exultas, exultâtes, exulté, exultâmes, exultai, exulta, exultèrent exulting: exultant eyebrow: sourcil eyebrows: sourcils eyed: embryonné eyelids: paupières fabric: tissu, textile, structure fabulous: fabuleux faces: faces

facing: revêtement, parementure, parement, frontal, surfaçage, surface, revers factitious: artificiel facts: faits faculty: faculté faded: pâlirent, pâlîmes, pâli, pâlis, pâlit, pâlîtes, fané, décoloré, décolora, déteignîtes, déteignîmes fading: évanouissement, décoloration, pâlissant, fading, fondu, décolorant, déteignant, fluctuation failed: échoué, failli, manqué, faillies, faillie, faillirent faint: faible, s'évanouir, défaillir fainted: évanoui fainting: évanouissement, syncope, défaillance, défaillant faintly: de manière faible, de façon faible, faiblement fairway: chenal, passe faith: foi faithfulness: fidélité faithless: infidèle fallen: tombé, déchu, abattu, chu falling: tombant, chute, abattant, choyant false: faux, perfide, feint fame: renommée, gloire, réputation, célébrité familiar: familier fancied: imaginaire fancy: imaginer, fantaisie, songer, rêver éveillé, aimer fantastic: fantastique farce: farce farcical: bouffon, farcesque farewell: adieu farther: plus loin farthest: le plus loin fascinated: fascinas, fascinâtes, fasciné, fascinai, fascinèrent, fascina, fascinâmes fascinating: fascinant, passionnant fascination: fascination fasten: attacher, attachons, attaches, attachez, attache, attachent, fixer, verrouiller, verrouille, verrouillez, verrouillons fat: gras, gros, graisse, épais fatalism: fatalisme fate: sort, destinée, fatalité, destin, destination, fortune fated: destiné, fatal fateful: fatidique, fatal fault: défaut, panne, faute, faille, erreur faultless: impeccable, irréprochable, parfait favor: faveur, grâce, service, complaisance, favoriser

103 favorite: favori feared: craint fearful: effrayant, craintif, affreux fearfully: de manière effrayante, de façon effrayante feather: plume, crachat feathers: plumage featureless: anonyme, sans traits bien marqués fed: alimentas, alimentâtes, alimenté, alimentâmes, alimentai, alimentèrent, alimenta, nourrit, nourris, nourrirent, nourrîtes feeble: faible, débile feebly: de manière faible, de façon faible feelings: sentiments fellow: individu, homme, camarade, ensemble, mâle fence: barrière, clôture, cloison de décrochage, palissade, faire de l'escrime fend: défendre ferocity: férocité fetched: amenèrent, amena, apportas, amené, amenâtes, amenas, amenâmes, amenai, apportâtes, apporté, apportai fever: fièvre, la fièvre feverishly: de manière fiévreuse, de façon fiévreuse, fiévreusement fidelity: fidélité fiend: démon fiendish: diabolique fiendishly: de manière diabolique, de façon diabolique fierce: féroce, violent fiercely: de manière féroce, de façon féroce fiery: ardent, fougueux fifteenth: quinzième fighting: combattant, combat figuratively: de manière figurative, de façon figurative filch: chiper, chipe, chipons, chipez, chipes, chipent file: fichier, lime, dossier, limer, classeur, file, rangée, rang, classer, collection à consulter, déposer filed: classé filings: limaille, limailles fill: remplir, remplissage, compléter, charger, obturer, plomber, bourrer, emplir, remblai filled: rempli, fourré finding: fondant, trouvant, recherche d'une ligne appelante finds: fonde, trouve finger: doigt, tâter finish: terminer, termines, termine, terminons, terminez, terminent, finir, finissent, finis, finissez,

104 finissons fired: traité par pointes de feu fireman: pompier fireplace: cheminée, foyer fireside: coin du feu firewood: bois de chauffage, bois à brûler, bois de feu firing: tir, cuisson, allumage, cuite, amorçage, conduite du feu, chauffe, chauffage, tirer, mise à feu fishes: pêche fishing: pêche fitfully: de manière irrégulière, de façon irrégulière fitted: ajusté fixed: fixe, fixâtes, fixas, fixé, fixâmes, fixèrent, fixa, fixai, réparas, répara, réparâmes fixity: fixité flabby: flasque flag: drapeau, pavillon, indicateur, étendard, fanion, dalle, banderole, cavalier flame: flamme, flamber flanks: flancs flannel: flanelle flared: collet mandriné, évasé flash: flash, éclat, clignoter, éclair, bavure flashing: clignotement flat: plat, appartement, aplati, bémol, uni, mat flatness: platitude flatter: flatter, flatte, flattons, flattez, flattes, flattent, aduler, adule, adules, adulent, adulez flavor: saveur, arôme, parfum, goût, flaveur fleet: flotte, parc, tessure flesh: chair, pulpe fleshy: charnu flew: volâmes, volèrent, volas, volai, vola, volâtes flicker: papillotement, scintiller, scintillement, flicker, clignotement, oscillation, scintillation flies: vole flight: vol, fuite, volée, essor flinch: recule, reculent, recules, reculez, reculons, reculer flipper: nageoire flitting: voltigeant, flirtant float: flotter, flotteur, planer, flotte, nager, flottant, taloche floated: flotté floating: flottant, flottement, flottage, talochage flock: troupeau, bourre, tontisse, flocon, floc flood: inondation, inonder, flot, combler, submerger, marée montante, marée haute, abreuver,

Heart of Darkness noyer, crue, déluge flourish: prospérer, prospèrent, prospérons, prospères, prospérez, prospère flow: couler, flux, courant, écoulement, s'écouler, circulation, débit, jaillir, flot flowed: coulé flowing: coulant, écoulement, fluent fluently: couramment, de manière aisé, de façon aisée fluke: patte d'ancre, douve, flet flush: affleurant, rougeur flutter: voltiger, scintillement, flottement, flirter, conter fleurette, battement, voleter, flutter, chevrotement, pleurage, flottement aéroélastique fly: mouche, voler, volez, voles, volent, vole, volons, volant flying: volant foam: écume, mousse, mousser, moussage foamed: moussèrent, moussâmes, moussée, moussées, moussés fog: brouillard, voile, buée folded: plié, plissé, plissée folds: plie, plisse foliage: feuillage folly: folie, sottise fool: imbécile, sot, mystifier, idiot, duper, fou foolish: sot, idiot, stupide, abracadabrant, insensé footsore: aux pieds endoloris footsteps: pas forbearing: patient forefinger: index forehead: front forerunner: précurseur foresaw: prévîtes, prévîmes, prévis, prévit, prévirent foreseen: prévu, prévue, prévues, prévus foresight: prévoyance, préscience, guidon forge: forger, forge, contrefaire, falsifier forgot: oubliâtes, oublias, oubliai, oublièrent, oubliâmes, oublia forgotten: oublié forked: fourchu formality: formalité formidable: formidable, extraordinaire, prodigieux, singulier, redoutable formless: informe forth: en avant forthwith: immédiatement fortitude: courage fortnight: quinzaine fortunate: heureux, chanceux

fortunately: heureusement, de manière heureuse, de façon heureuse fortune: fortune, sort, destinée, destin fossil: fossile fought: combattu, combattit, combattis foundations: fondations fraction: fraction fragment: fragment frankness: franchise frenzy: frénésie frequented: fréquenté friendly: amical, aimable, gentil, affable, amène, amicalement friendship: amitié, camaraderie fright: peur, effroi, anxiété, frayeur, terreur frighten: effrayer, effraie, effraies, effraient, effrayons, effrayez, redouter, redoutez, redoutons, redoutes, redoutent frightful: affreux, épouvantable, effroyable frontal: frontal frown: froncement de sourcils frowning: renfrogné fulfillment: réalisation fun: amusement, plaisir, détente, distraction, récréation, plaisanterie funeral: enterrement, obsèques, funérailles, funéraire funk: peureux, frousse funnel: entonnoir, cheminée funny: drôle, amusant, comique, marrant, rigolo furious: furieux furnace: four, fourneau, fournaise, cuisinière, chaudière furniture: meubles, mobilier, ameublement, les meubles, garniture furry: à poil fury: fureur, furie fusillade: fusillade fuss: agitation futile: vain, abortif futility: futilité gaberdine: gabardine gain: gain, gagner, bénéfice, profit, acquisition, avantage, remporter, gain de transmission gait: démarche, allure, marche gallantly: de manière vaillante, de façon vaillante gallows: potence, gibet gang: bande, compagnie, clique, mariage gap: brèche, écart, lacune, créneau, trou, intervalle, interstice, espace inter électrode, couloir, écartement des bords, écartement

Joseph Conrad gape: béer, badauder, bayer aux corneilles, bâiller gash: entaille, balafre gasp: halètement, haleter gasping: halètement gate: porte, vanne, grille, barrière, portillon, portail, gâchette, doigt, berceau, entrée gather: rassembler, ramasser, recueillir, réunir, déduire, conclure, collectionner, assembler, fronce, amasser, récolter gathered: cueilli, ramassées, ramassai, ramassâmes, ramassée, rassemblé gathering: réunion, ramassage, rassemblement, cueillage, roulage gauntlets: crispins gay: gai, joyeux, homosexuel, enjoué gaze: regard generals: marchandises générales generosity: générosité, largesse generous: généreux genius: génie gentle: doux, gentil, suave, sucré gentlemanly: distingué, bien élevé gently: doucement, de manière douce, de façon douce, gentiment germs: germes gesticulating: gesticulant gesture: geste ghastly: horrible, désagréable, abominable, maussade, repoussant, odieux ghost: fantôme, apparition, image fantôme, revenant, hématie dépigmentée, spectre gift: cadeau, don gifted: doué, surdoué gigantic: gigantesque, énorme, formidable, colossal gilt: doré, cochette, jeune truie girlish: de petite fille glad: joyeux, content, heureux glamour: prestige, gloire glance: coup d'œil glare: éblouissement, éclat, reflet glaring: éblouissant glasses: lunettes glassy: vitreux glazed: glacé gleam: lueur, luire gleamed: luis, luie, luies gleaming: luisant gleams: luit glide: planer, glisser, vol plané, coulé, patin glided: glissé, glissèrent, glissa, glissées, glissée, glissés gliding: vol à voile, glissement glimmer: luire, briller, faible lueur glimpse: entrevoir

glimpsed: entrevu, entrevit, entrevis, entrevues glint: briller, reflet, scintiller glisten: étinceler glistening: scintillant glitter: briller, brillant, scintillement glittering: éclat, scintillant gloom: mélancolie, obscurité gloomy: sombre, morne glorified: glorifia, glorifiai, glorifiâmes, glorifias, glorifiâtes, glorifièrent, glorifié glorious: glorieux, fameux gloriously: de manière glorieuse, de façon glorieuse glory: gloire, renommée, réputation glossy: lustré glow: ardeur, incandescence, brûler, être en feu, lueur glowing: incandescence gnawing: rongeant gold: or golden: doré, en or, d'or goodness: bonté gorgeous: magnifique gourd: potiron, courge, citrouille, gourde grab: saisir, agripper, grappin, benne preneuse, harpon gradually: petit à petit, peu à peu, graduellement, de proche en proche, de manière graduelle, de façon graduelle grain: grain, graine, bloc de poudre, pépin, fil, blé grand: grandiose, magnifique grass: herbe, gazon grassy: herbeux, herbu grateful: reconnaissant gratification: satisfaction gratified: gratifiâtes, satisfîtes, satisfit, satisfis, satisfirent, gratifièrent, gratifias, gratifiâmes, gratifiai, gratifia, satisfîmes grave: tombe, grave, sérieux gravity: pesanteur, gravité, gravitation gray: gris, gray greased: graissé greasy: gras, graisseux greatly: de façon grande, de manière grande greatness: grandeur greed: avidité, cupidité, avarice greedy: avide, glouton, cupide, gourmand, goulu greenish: verdâtre grew: crûmes, crût, crûtes, grandîtes, grandit, grandis, grandîmes, crûs, grandirent, crûrent grief: peine, chagrin, désolation, abattement, douleur

105 grimy: crasseux, sale grin: sourire, rictus grip: agripper, prise, saisir, poignée, grippe, valise, saignée gripping: ancrage, passionnant, agrippant, saisir groan: gémir, gémissement, geindre groans: gémissements grooves: gorges, empreintes, rainures de cylindre grotesque: grotesque, ubuesque grove: bosquet grow: croître, grandir, cultiver, grandis, grandissent, grandissez, grandissons, croissent, croîs, croissez, croissons growled: grogné grows: grandit, croît grubbing: défrichement grunt: grognement grunting: grognement, grogner guard: garde, protéger, garder, gardien, contrôleur, préserver, protecteur, dispositif de protection, arrière, chef de train, protection guarding: garde guess: deviner, supposer, supposition guessing: devinant guidance: guidage guileless: franc, naïf gulp: lampée gun: fusil, pistolet, canon gutter: gouttière, caniveau, rigole, petits fonds, crochet de jante, dalot, logement de bavure, lézarde, blanc de fond, caniveau à buses, goulotte habit: habitude, coutume, usage, port hail: grêle, héler, grêler halo: auréole, halo halter: licol hammer: marteau, marteler, percuteur hammers: martèle hammock: hamac handful: poignée handkerchief: mouchoir handkerchiefs: mouchoirs handle: poignée, manier, manche, anse, toucher, traiter, manipuler, tâter, manette, manivelle handled: emmanché, manièrent, maniâmes, manié, maniée, maniai, manipulé, mania handy: commode, opportun, convenable, maniable, pratique hang: pendre, suspendre, retomber, accrocher, faisander hanged: pendu hanging: pendaison, suspension, suspendu, pendre, mise à la pente harlequin: arlequin harm: nuire, préjudice, mal, tort,

106 endommager harmless: inoffensif, anodin, innocent harness: harnais, atteler, aménager, harnachement, capter, harnacher haste: hâte hastened: hâta, hâtèrent, hâtâtes, hâtas, hâtâmes, hâtai, hâté hastily: à la hâte, hâtivement, de manière précipitée, de façon précipitée, précipitamment hat: chapeau hate: haïr, haine, détester hated: détesté haul: tirer, transporter, tirage, traîner, haler hauled: transporté haunted: hanté haze: brume, voile, brume sèche, chicaner, brouillard, trouble, vapeur headed: dirigé, abouté headlong: la tête la première headman: chef headquarters: quartier général heads: têtes heap: tas, amas, entasser, accumuler, foule, masse, collection, bande, troupe, ensemble, multitude hearing: entendant, audition, audience, ouïe, audition publique, oyant heartache: chagrin heartiness: cordialité heartless: sans coeur hearts: coeurs heat: chaleur, chauffer, ardeur, chaleurs, charge de fusion, rut heave: lever, pilonnement, soulever heaven: ciel, paradis heavenly: céleste heavens: cieux heavily: fortement, de façon lourde, de manière lourde, lourdement heels: talons helm: gouvernail, barre, timon helmet: casque helmeted: casqué helmsman: timonier, homme de barre, barreur helped: aidé helping: portion, aidant helpless: abandonné, impuissant, délaissé, faible hemispheres: hémisphères heralded: annoncé hers: sien hesitated: hésitâtes, hésitas, hésité, hésita, hésitâmes, hésitai, hésitèrent, barguignèrent, barguigna, barguignai, barguignâmes hesitating: hésitant, barguignant hesitation: hésitation hidden: caché, dissimulé, masqué

Heart of Darkness hide: peau, cacher, cachent, cachons, caches, cache, cachez, fourrure, s'abriter, dissimuler, pelage highness: altesse hills: collines hillside: pente, côte hind: biche, suivant, de derrière hindering: gênant hind-leg: jambe postérieure hint: insinuer, faire allusion, conseil, allusion hints: allusions hip: hanche hippo: hippopotame hippopotamus: hippopotame hissing: sifflement, sifflant, siffler hive: ruche hoarsely: de manière rauque, de façon rauque hobbled: ambleur, entravé hole: trou, fossé, creux, orifice, fosse holes: trous hollow: creux, cavité, caver holy: saint, sacré honest: honnête, intègre, sincère, loyal honor: honneur, honorer honorable: honorable honored: honoré hook: crochet, hameçon, agrafe, accrocher, croc hooked: accroché, crochu hoped: espérai, espérâmes, espéras, espérâtes, espérèrent, espéra, espéré, souhaitai, souhaitèrent, souhaité, souhaitâtes hopeful: optimiste, plein d'espoir hopeless: désespéré, impossible, sans espoir horizontal: horizontal horn: corne, avertisseur, cornet, klaxon, trompe, cor, pavillon, pavillon acoustique horned: cornu horns: cornes horrible: affreux, épouvantable, horrible, atroce, terrible, désagréable, abominable, odieux, sinistre, abject, hideux horribly: de manière affreuse, de façon affreuse horrid: horrible horrified: horrifias, horrifiâtes, horrifièrent, horrifia, horrifiai, horrifiâmes, horrifié horror: horreur, dégoût, aversion, répulsion, abomination, atrocité horrors: horreurs hospitable: hospitalier host: hôte, amphitryon, aubergiste, hostie, foule hostile: hostile, ennemi

hotly: de façon chaude, de manière chaude hovel: taudis, masure hovered: planâtes, plana, planas, planèrent, planâmes, planai, plané hovering: planant, planer howl: hurler, mugir, gronder, hurlement howling: hurlant hulk: ponton hull: coque, cosse, carène, écosser, tache sombre humanizing: humanisant humble: humble, modeste humbug: fumisterie humiliation: humiliation humming: vrombissement, bourdonnement hummock: hummock hung: pendu hunger: faim hungry: affamé hunt: chasser, chassent, chassons, chassez, chasses, chasse, poursuivre hunters: chasseurs hurried: hâtif, pressé, dépêché hurriedly: à la hâte, de manière hâtive, de façon hâtive, précipitamment hurry: se dépêcher, hâte, presser, être urgent, se presser, se hâter, dépêcher hurrying: dépêchant hurt: blesser hush: faire taire, silence hut: hutte, cabane, chaumière, baraque hyena: hyène idiot: idiot idleness: oisiveté, désœuvrement idol: idole ignorance: ignorance ignorant: ignorant ignored: ignora, ignorai, ignorâmes, ignoras, ignorâtes, ignorèrent, ignoré, méconnu, méconnûtes, méconnut, méconnus ill: malade, malsain, mal illness: maladie, infirmité illuminating: illuminant illumination: éclairage, illumination, éclairement, enluminure illusion: illusion illustrative: explicatif imagination: imagination, fantaisie imagined: imaginas, imaginâtes, imaginé, imaginai, imaginâmes, imagina, imaginèrent imbecile: imbécile imbecility: imbécillité immense: énorme, immense, formidable

Joseph Conrad immensely: immensément, de manière immense, de façon immense immensity: immensité immobility: immobilité immutability: immutabilité, immuabilité impalpable: impalpable impatience: impatience impending: imminent impenetrable: impénétrable, imperméable imperceptible: imperceptible imperfect: imparfait imperfectly: imparfaitement, de manière imparfaite, de façon imparfaite imperturbably: de manière imperturbable, de façon imperturbable implacable: implacable imported: importé imposing: imposant, contraignant impossibility: impossibilité impostor: imposteur impotent: impuissant, impotent impress: impressionner, imprimer impressed: impressionné impression: impression, effet, empreinte, tirage impressive: impressionnant impressively: de manière impressionnante, de façon impressionnante improbable: improbable impromptu: impromptu improper: inexact, incorrect improved: amélioras, améliorâtes, amélioré, améliorâmes, améliorèrent, améliora, améliorai, amendèrent, amendai, amendas, amendâmes improvement: amélioration, perfectionnement improving: améliorant, amendant, réformant improvised: improvisas, improvisâtes, improvisé, improvisai, improvisâmes, improvisèrent, improvisa impulse: impulsion, incitation, pulsion impulses: impulsions inaccessible: inaccessible inadmissible: irrecevable, inadmissible inappreciable: inappréciable inborn: inné, naturel, congénital incalculable: incalculable incantation: incantation inches: pouces incidentally: incidemment, de

manière incidente, de façon incidente inclined: incliné, enclin incomplete: incomplet incomprehensible: incompréhensible inconceivable: inconcevable, abracadabrant, inimaginable inconceivably: de manière inconcevable, de façon inconcevable inconclusive: inconcluant incontinently: de façon incontinente, de manière incontinente incredible: incroyable, invraisemblable indefatigable: infatigable indefinable: indéfinissable indestructible: indestructible india: Inde indian: indien, indienne, amérindien indifference: indifférence indifferent: indifférent, impartial indignant: indigné indignantly: de manière indignée, de façon indignée indignation: indignation indisputable: indiscutable, incontestable indissolubly: de manière indissoluble, de façon indissoluble indistinct: confus, touffu, trouble, indistinct indistinctly: de manière trouble, de façon trouble, indistinctement induced: induit, induisîmes, induisîtes, induisit, induisis, induisirent inducement: incitation, lieu, occasion industrious: laborieux, appliqué, assidu, travailleur, industrieux inefficient: inefficace inexcusable: impardonnable inexorable: inexorable inexplicable: inexplicable inextricable: inextricable infamous: infâme infer: conclure, concluent, concluez, concluons, conclus infernal: infernal inferno: enfer infested: infestas, infestâtes, infestâmes, infestai, infesta, infestèrent, infesté infinite: infini, illimité infliction: affliction influential: influent inform: informer, informes, informons, informez, informe, informent, renseigner, renseigne, renseignes, renseignez, renseignons informed: informas, informâtes, informai, informâmes, informa, informèrent, informé, renseignas,

107 renseignâtes, renseignâmes, renseignèrent inhabitants: habitants inhabited: habitas, habitâtes, habité, habitai, habitèrent, habita, habitâmes inheritance: héritage, succession inherited: héritas, héritâtes, hérita, héritâmes, héritai, hérité, héritèrent inhuman: inhumain initiated: initié initiation: amorçage, initiation initiative: initiative inland: intérieur innate: inné, naturel, congénital inner: interne, intérieur innocence: innocence, naïveté innumerable: innombrable inquire: enquérir, demander, nous enquérons, vous enquérez, s'enquièrent, m'enquiers, enquérezvous, t'enquiers, se renseigner inquiries: enquêtes inquiring: s'enquérant, interrogateur inquiry: enquête, demande de renseignements, investigation, interrogation insanity: folie, aliénation, démence, aberration, affolement, aliénation mentale, insanité insatiable: insatiable inscrutable: impénétrable insensible: insensible insidious: insidieux insight: perspicacité insignificant: insignifiant, mineur insipid: insipide, fade insolence: insolence, effronterie insolent: insolent, effronté insoluble: insoluble inspiration: inspiration, souffle inspired: inspiras, inspirâtes, inspira, inspirâmes, inspirèrent, inspirai, inspiré instant: instant, moment instantly: directement, aussitôt, d'abord, tout d'abord, à l'instant, de manière instante, de façon instante instructed: instruisîmes, instruisîtes, instruisit, instruisis, instruisirent, instruit instructing: instruisant instrument: instrument intelligence: intelligence, renseignement intelligent: intelligent intended: visèrent, visâtes, visas, visâmes, visai, visa, visé, destiné, projetas, projetâtes, projetâmes intense: intense intensified: intensifiâtes, intensifias, intensifia, intensifiâmes,

108 intensifièrent, intensifiai, intensifié intensity: intensité intention: intention, dessein, propos intercourse: rapports sexuels, relations, rapport sexuel interfering: interférant interior: intérieur interminable: interminable interrupt: interrompre, interruption interrupted: interrompit, interrompu, interrompue interrupting: interrompant interspersed: semèrent, répandîtes, sema, semâmes, semas, semé, répandit, répandu, semâtes, parsemai, répandis interview: entrevue, interview, entretien, interrogation intimacy: intimité intimate: intime intolerable: intolérable intolerably: de manière intolérable, intolérablement, de façon intolérable intrigued: intrigué intriguing: intriguer, intriguant introduce: introduire, présenter, présentons, présentez, présentes, présentent, introduis, présente, introduisez, introduisent, introduisons introducing: présentant, introduisant invaded: envahirent, envahîtes, envahîmes, envahis, envahit, envahi invading: envahissant invalid: invalide, non valide, non valable, périmé invariably: de manière invariable, de façon invariable, invariablement invasion: invasion invincible: invincible invisible: invisible invited: invitâtes, invitas, invitâmes, invita, invitèrent, invitai, invité inviting: invitant invoke: invoquer, invoque, invoques, invoquez, invoquons, invoquent, appeler invoked: invoquas, invoquâtes, invoqué, invoquèrent, invoquâmes, invoquai, invoqua iron: fer, fer à repasser, repasser ironic: ironique irresistibly: de manière irrésistible, de façon irrésistible, irrésistiblement irresolutely: de manière indécise, de façon indécise irretrievably: de manière irréparable, de façon irréparable irritable: irritable irritating: irritant, agaçant irritation: irritation islet: îlot

Heart of Darkness isolation: isolement, abandon, isolation issued: émis ivory: ivoire jab: coup de pointe, coup, piqûre, piquer jabber: jabotage, jacasser jack: cric, vérin, valet, jack, cochonnet jacket: veste, veston, jaquette, chemise, enveloppe, blouson, pochette, gaine jaw: mâchoire, bec, mordache, mors jealous: jaloux jealousy: jalousie, envie jeopardy: danger, péril jetty: jetée, débarcadère, embarcadère jig: gigue, gabarit jingle: tinter, sonal jocose: enjoué joining: joignant, reliant, accouplant, associant, accouplement, nouant, rattachement, raccordement joints: articulations joke: plaisanterie, badiner, blague, badinage, plaisanter, farce jolly: gai, joyeux, enjoué journalist: journaliste jove: Jupiter joviality: jovialité joy: joie, allégresse judged: jugé judgment: arrêt, jugement jump: saut, sauter, bond, obstacle jungle: jungle jupiter: Jupiter keen: vif, aiguisé, actif, affilé, alerte, vigilant keeps: garde, élève, remplit kernel: noyau, amande, centre kick: coup de pied, donner un coup de pied, botter, recul kicked: bottées, bottée, bottai, bottés, bottâmes, botté kill: tuer, abattre, supprimer, rectifier killing: meurtre, abattage kinship: parenté kiss: baiser, embrasser, bise knee: genou, coude, le genou knees: genoux knitted: tricoté knitter: tricoteur knitting: tricotage, tricot knives: couteaux knob: bouton, pommeau knock: frapper, coup, heurter, cogner, cognement, frappe knocked: frappèrent, frappés, frappâmes, frappa, frappées knot: noeud, nouer, bécasseau maubèche, larme, nodule, nœud lâche knots: nœuds

knowing: connaissant laborer: ouvrier, travailleur lacked: manquai, manquèrent, manquâtes, manquas, manqua, manquâmes, manqué laid: posèrent, posai, posa, posâmes, posas, posâtes, posé, vergé, pondu, pondit, pondis lake: lac, laque lakes: lacs lame: boiteux lamentable: déplorable lamp: lampe, ampoule landed: débarqué, atterri landing: atterrissage, palier, débarquement, alunissage, réception, premier dépôt transitoire landscape: paysage languid: langoureux, languissant languidly: de manière languissante, de façon languissante languor: langueur lanky: dégingandé, grand et maigre lap: clapoter, recouvrement, chevauchement, nappe, barboter, tour, giron lapped: chevauchant lark: alouette lashed: amarré, amarrèrent, amarrai, amarrée, amarra lasted: duré lately: dernièrement, de manière tarde, de façon tardive, récemment latitude: latitude laugh: rire, rigoler laughed: ries, rit, rirent, rie, ris laughing: riant laughter: rire launched: lancé lavender: lavande, bleu lavande layer: couche, gisement, feuille de placage, assise, strate, marcotte, couche ionosphérique, couche de projection laying: pose, posant, ponte, couchant, pondant, levée laze: paresser, fainéanter lazily: de manière paresseuse, de façon paresseuse, paresseusement leaf: feuille, feuillet leaking: coulage, écoulement, découlant, fuyant, exsudatif leaky: percé, partiellement fonctionnel, qui fuit lean: maigre, appuyer, accoter, mince, s'adosser, s'accoter, adosser leaned: adossé, adossées, adossâmes, adossai, adossés leaning: penchant leaped: sauté leaping: sauter, saut learned: apprîtes, appris, apprîmes,

Joseph Conrad apprirent, apprit, cultivé, savant, érudit least: moindre, le moins leaves: part, feuilles lecture: conférence, exposé, cours magistral, cours leg: jambe, patte, cuisse, branche, pied, gigot, montant legality: légalité leggings: guêtres legitimate: légitime leisurely: paisiblement lest: de peur que letting: laissant, location levy: levée, prélèvement lie: mentir, mensonge, être couché, gésir lies: git, ment lift: ascenseur, lever, soulever, élever, portance, se soulever, sustentation lifted: élevé, éleva, élevèrent, élevées, élevai, élevée, soulevé lifting: levage lifts: élève lighted: allumé lighthouse: phare lightning: éclair, foudre lights: lumières, feux liked: aimé likeness: ressemblance likewise: de même, aussi, pareillement, également limb: membre, limbe, flanc limbs: membres limit: limite, limiter, frontière limits: limites limp: boiter, mou linen: lin, toile, linge, toile de lin lingering: traînant, prolongé lingers: traîne lips: les lèvres, lèvres listened: écoutas, écoutâtes, écoutèrent, écouté, écoutâmes, écoutai, écouta listener: auditeur, écouteur listeners: auditeurs listening: écoutant, écoute listlessly: de manière indifférente, de façon indifférente litany: litanie literally: littéralement, de manière littérale, de façon littérale lively: animé, vif, spirituel, fin, mental, de manière vivre, de façon vivre, plein d'entrain load: charger, charge, chargement, fardeau loaded: chargé loathing: abhorrant, abominant, haïssant, répugnance locality: localité lodged: logé

lofty: haut, élevé logic: logique loins: reins loitering: flânant lone: solitaire, seul loneliness: solitude lonely: solitaire, seul, de manière solitaire, de façon solitaire, isolé longing: désir, aspiration, envie loops: boucles loose: détaché, lâche loot: butin, piller loud: fort, bruyant, haut, sonore, criard loudly: fort, à haute voix, de manière forte, de façon forte, bruyamment loved: aimé lovingly: de manière amoureuse, de façon amoureuse lowering: abaissement, baissant loyal: loyal, dévoué, droit, honnête, fidèle loyalty: loyauté, fidélité, loyalisme luckily: heureusement, de manière chanceuse, de façon chanceuse lugging: effort anormal, traînant lugubrious: lugubre luminous: lumineux lumped: concentré, localisé lumps: grumeaux de caoutchouc lunatic: aliéné, fou lurid: âcre, aigu, acéré, rude, coupant, aigre, tranchant, perçant, piquant lurk: se cacher lurking: badaudage luster: lustre, éclat lustrous: brillant lusty: vigoureux lying: menteur, mensonge, gisant machinery: machinerie, machines mad: fou, agité, aberrant, enragé madhouse: maison de fous madness: folie, aliénation, aberration, affolement magic: magie, magique magnificent: magnifique, grandiose mahogany: acajou malevolently: de manière malveillante, de façon malveillante manage: administrer, diriger, administre, administrez, administrons, administrent, administres, gérer, dirige, dirigent, dirigeons managed: administra, administrèrent, administré, administrâtes, administras, administrai, administrâmes, géra, dirigea, gérèrent, gérâtes maneuvered: manoeuvré mangy: galeux manipulation: manipulation

109 mankind: humanité manners: moeurs manufactured: fabriquas, fabriquâtes, fabriquâmes, fabriquai, fabriqua, fabriquèrent, fabriqué map: carte, plan, mappe, application, carte géographique maps: cartes marble: marbre, marbrer, bille margin: marge, bord, couverture marked: marqué mass: masse, amas, foule, tas, messe, bloc, multitude massacre: massacrer, massacre massive: massif massively: de manière massive, de façon massive, massivement masts: mâts matches: allumettes matted: feutré, maté mature: mûr, adulte, fait, mûrir, faites, mûrissons, mûrissez, mûrissent, font, faisons, fais maximum: maximum, maximal meager: maigre, pauvre, misérable meanness: vilenie, mesquinerie measured: mesuré mechanics: mécanique meddling: mêlant medicine: médicament, médecine, remède meditated: méditas, méditâtes, médita, méditèrent, méditai, méditâmes, médité, songeas, songèrent, songeâmes, songeai meditating: méditant, songeant meditation: méditation meditative: méditatif mediterranean: Méditerranée, méditerranéen melancholy: mélancolie, mélancolique, abattement, sombre memories: mémoires menace: menacer, menace, gronder menacing: menaçant, sinistre menacingly: de manière sinistre, de façon sinistre mend: rapiécer, réparer, raccommoder, repriser mentally: mentalement, de manière mentale, de façon mentale mention: mentionner, citer mentioned: mentionné mephistopheles: méphistophélès merciless: impitoyable mercilessly: de manière impitoyable, de façon impitoyable mercy: pitié, compassion, miséricorde mere: pur, seul, simple merry: joyeux, gai mess: désordre, bouillie, purée, fouillis

110 messenger: messager, coursier, messagère messengers: messagers metal: métal mica: mica midnight: minuit midst: milieu, millieux mighty: puissant mild: doux, suave, bénin, léger, faible mile: mille mingled: mélangea, mêlèrent, mêlâtes, mêlas, mélangèrent, mélangeâtes, mélangeas, mélangeai, mêlâmes, mêlai, mêla miracle: miracle mischief: malice miserable: misérable, malheureux, pauvre, maussade, vide, pénible, sombre, mauvais, méchant, mal missed: manqué mission: mission mist: brume, brouillard, buée, voile mistake: erreur, faute, méprise, se tromper mistily: de façon brumeuse, de manière brumeuse mistress: maîtresse misty: brumeux misunderstanding: malentendu misunderstood: incompris, mal compris moaned: gémies, gémi, bêlèrent, bêlé, bêlai, gémie, bêlés, bêla mob: foule modest: modeste modestly: modestement, de manière modeste, de façon modeste modulated: modulâtes, modulas, modulai, modulâmes, modula, modulèrent, modulé mold: moule, modeler, matrice, fondre, moisissure momentary: momentané monkey: singe monotonous: monotone monster: monstre, clébard monstrous: monstrueux monumental: monumental moon: lune moonlight: clair de lune moonshine: clair de lune, alcool de contrebande moored: en stationnement à flot moral: moral, morale morbidly: de manière morbide, de façon morbide moreover: d'ailleurs, en outre, et puis, en prime, de plus moribund: moribond morose: morose mortality: mortalité mostly: plupart, surtout

Heart of Darkness motion: mouvement, motion, résolution, marche, requête motionless: immobile, au repos, fixe motive: motif, lieu, occasion, mobile, motivation motives: motifs motley: bariolé, bigarré mourn: regretter, regrettes, regrettez, regrettent, regrette, regrettons mourned: regrettas, regrettèrent, regretté, regrettâtes, regrettai, regretta, regrettâmes mournful: sombre, morne, triste, mélancolique mournfully: de manière sombre, de façon sombre mourning: deuil, regrettant mouse: souris mouthful: bouchée movements: mouvements mud: boue, vase, bourbe, limon muddle: embrouillage, confusion muddy: boueux, vaseux, trouble muffled: étouffé, assourdi, assourdirent, assourdie, assourdies multitude: multitude, amas, foule, tas, masse mumbled: marmonnas, marmottâtes, marmottas, marmottâmes, marmottai, marmotta, marmonnâtes, marmottèrent, marmonnèrent, marmonna, Marmotté mumbling: marmottant, marmonnant murky: ténébreux murmur: murmure, murmurer, bruit murmured: murmuré murmuring: murmurer, murmure muscle: muscle musician: musicien mute: muet, sourdine, commutateur de sourdine mutiny: mutinerie, révolte, se mutiner, se révolter, sédition mutter: murmurer, barboter, marmonner muttered: barbota, barbotées, barbotée, barboté, barbotés muttering: barbotant muzzles: museaux mysterious: mystérieux mysteriously: de manière mystérieuse, de façon mystérieuse mystery: mystère naked: nu, dénudé narcotic: narcotique, stupéfiant narrated: racontai, racontâmes, racontas, racontâtes, raconta, racontèrent, Raconté, contas, contèrent, conta, contai narrative: récit, relation, narratif

narrow: étroit nasty: méchant, vilain, désagréable, dégoûtant, affreux, épouvantable, perfide, horrible, mauvais, sale, abject nation: nation, peuple native: autochtone, naturel, natif, aborigène, inné, indigène, natal naturally: naturellement, bien sûr, de façon naturelle, de manière naturelle nautical: nautique navigation: navigation navy: marine, marine nationale, marine de guerre, marine militaire nearest: plus proche neat: net, propre neatly: de manière nète, de façon nète necessarily: de manière nécessaire, de façon nécessaire, forcément, nécessairement necessity: nécessité, besoin neck: cou, col, collet, goulot, encolure necklaces: colliers necktie: cravate needle: aiguille, épingle, aiguille à coudre, aiguille de montre neglected: négligé negro: nègre, noir neighbor: voisin, prochain neighborhood: voisinage, quartier nephew: neveu nervously: de manière nerveuse, nerveusement, de façon nerveuse nervousness: nervosité newspaper: journal, gazette, quotidien nicety: exactitude nigger: bougnoul nightmare: cauchemar nightmares: cauchemars noble: noble, élevé nobly: noblement, de manière noble, de façon noble nod: signe de tête noise: bruit, bruit de fond, tapage, souffle noisily: de manière bruyante, de façon bruyante, bruyamment noisy: bruyant noon: midi nose: nez, bec nostrils: narines noticed: remarqué notion: notion, idée notions: mercerie nowhere: nulle part noxious: nocif, nuisible nuisance: nuisance, ennui numbered: numéroté nurse: infirmière, infirmier, soigner, nourrice, allaiter, veiller sur nursing: allaitement, soins infirmiers,

Joseph Conrad sciences infirmières nut: écrou, noix, fruit à coque, coinceur nuts: fou, aberrant, agité, noix obedient: obéissant, docile obeyed: obéis, obéit, obéîtes, obéirent, obéi, obéîmes obliquely: de manière oblique, de façon oblique oblivion: oubli obscure: obscur, obscurcir obscured: obscurcîtes, obscurcîmes, obscurcirent, obscurcis, obscurcit, obscurci obsequiously: de manière obséquieuse, de façon obséquieuse observation: observation, remarque, réflexion observed: observas, observâtes, observai, observa, observèrent, observâmes, observé, respecta, respectas, respectai, respectâmes obstinately: de manière obstinée, de façon obstinée, obstinément occasion: occasion, lieu, fois occasional: occasionnel occupation: occupation, métier, profession, emploi occupied: occupas, occupâtes, occupâmes, occupa, occupai, occupèrent, occupé occur: arriver, arrivent, arrivons, arrives, arrive, arrivez, avoir lieu, intervenir, survenir, survenez, survenons occurred: arrivas, arrivâtes, arrivâmes, arrivai, arriva, arrivèrent, arrivé, survenu, survînmes, survinrent, survins ocean: océan odd: bizarre, impair, étrange, singulier, drôle odious: odieux offensive: offensant, offensif, offensive, choquant offices: bureaux oiled: huilé oily: huileux, graisseux ominous: inquiétant ominously: de façon inquiétante, de manière inquiétante onslaught: attaque onwards: en avant opaque: opaque, opacifiant opening: ouverture, ouvrant, orifice, début, déclenchement openly: ouvertement opposite: opposé, en face de, contraire, contre oppressing: serrant, opprimant oppressive: étouffant, accablant, oppressif

orange: orange, orangé ordeal: désolation, épreuve ordered: commandé orders: commandes organist: organiste organizing: organisant originated: provinrent, provins, provint, provîntes, provînmes, Provenu ornamental: décoratif, ornemental ornamentation: ornementation ornamented: orné ostentation: ostentation ours: nôtre ourselves: nous outbreak: éruption, explosion outcry: tollé outer: externe, extérieur outfit: équipement, costume, complet, outillage, tenue, trousse, matériel outlines: profile outraged: outragé outrageous: scandaleux outwards: vers l'extérieur overboard: à la mer overcast: couvert overcome: triompher de, vaincre overfed: suralimentâtes, suralimentèrent, suralimentas, suralimentâmes, suralimentai, suralimenta, suralimenté overgrown: envahi overhanging: surplombant overheard: surprîtes, surprit, surprîmes, surprirent, surpris overheated: surchauffa, surchauffèrent, surchauffâtes, surchauffas, surchauffai, surchauffâmes, surchauffé overhung: surplomba overland: par voie de terre overpowering: accablant, dominant, vainquant, maîtrisant, irrésistible overshadowed: éclipsas, ombrageâtes, ombrageas, ombrageâmes, ombrageai, ombragea, ombragé, éclipsâtes, ombragèrent, éclipsâmes, éclipsai overtaking: dépassant, doublant, dépassement, rattrapage overwhelmed: comblé, comblai, comblâmes, comblèrent, comblas, comblâtes, combla, abreuvé, abreuvâtes, abreuvas, abreuvâmes overwhelming: accablant, comblant, abreuvant, écrasant, assommant pace: allure, pas, faire les cent pas, rythme pacific: Pacifique, océan Pacifique pacifically: de manière pacifique, de façon pacifique, pacifiquement

111 pacified: pacifias, pacifiâtes, pacifiâmes, pacifiai, pacifia, pacifièrent, pacifié package: boîtier, colis, paquet, progiciel, emballer, achat groupé, paquetage, emballage, conditionnement packet: paquet paddling: pelotage pail: seau painfully: de manière pénible, de façon pénible, péniblement painted: peint painter: peintre, peintre en bâtiments pale: pâle, blême pall: drap mortuaire, manteau palm: palmier, paume pampered: choyé, choyas, choyâmes, choyai, choyâtes, choya, choyèrent, dorloté, dorlotai, dorlotâtes, dorlota pamphlet: brochure, pamphlet panel: panneau, lambris, jury, panel, tableau panic: panique, affolement panted: haleté paragraph: alinéa, paragraphe parasol: parasol parcel: paquet, colis, lot, parcelle pardon: pardon, pardonner, excuser, grâce parody: parodie, parodier particularized: particularisâtes, particularisai, particularisèrent, particularisé, particularisâmes, particularisa, particularisas partnership: association, partenariat, société en nom collectif, société de personnes passage: passage, couloir, corridor, traversée, canal passenger: passager, voyageur passing: passant, dépassement, écoulement, passage passion: passion, ardeur passionate: passionné passionately: de manière passionnée, de façon passionnée passions: passions patch: rapiécer, pièce, rustine, correction, parcelle, plaque, réparer, tache patching: correction de programme, placage, emploi partiel, retouche, retorchage, rapiécer, raccommodage, rapiéçage, redistribution en agrégats pate: pâté, tête pathetically: de manière pathétique, de façon pathétique patience: patience patient: patient, malade patiently: de manière patiente,

112 patiemment, de façon patiente patter: crépitement, baratin, trottiner, truelle de bois paunch: panse, ventre pauper: cancre pause: pause, repos, trêve pavement: trottoir, pavé, chaussée peal: tinter, sonner peculiar: étrange, singulier, drôle, particulier peddling: colportage peeling: desquamation, écaillement peer: pair peering: échange de trafic pen: plume, stylo, enclos penetrable: pénétrable penetrate: pénétrer, pénètres, pénètre, pénètrent, pénétrez, pénétrons, entrer penetrated: pénétras, pénétrâtes, pénétrâmes, pénétrèrent, pénétra, pénétrai, pénétré penetrating: pénétrant penny: sou pensive: pensif, songeur perceived: aperçu, aperçus, aperçûtes, aperçûmes, aperçurent, aperçut, perçut, perçus, perçurent, perçûtes, perçûmes percentages: pourcentages perceptible: perceptible perception: perception perching: visitage à la perche, inspection à la perche perfectly: parfaitement, de façon parfaite, de manière parfaite performed: accompli, réalisa, réalisèrent, réalisé, réalisâtes, réalisas, réalisâmes, réalisai, accomplîtes, accomplit, accomplis performing: accomplissant, réalisant, effectuant, remplissant periodically: périodiquement, de manière périodique, de façon périodique periods: périodes perish: périr, périssons, périssez, périssent, péris, s'abîmer permanent: permanent, constant, continuel, invariable permitted: permis persistent: persistant, persévérant persistently: de manière persistante, de façon persistante personage: personnage personally: personnellement, de manière personnelle, de façon personnelle personified: personnifias, personnifiâtes, personnifiai, personnifièrent, personnifiâmes, personnifia, personnifié

Heart of Darkness persons: personnes perspiration: transpiration, sueur, perspiration persuaded: persuadas, persuadâtes, persuadai, persuadâmes, persuada, persuadèrent, persuadé pervaded: imprégnèrent, imprégna, imprégnai, imprégnâmes, imprégnas, imprégnâtes, imprégné pestilence: peste pestilential: pestilentiel petrified: pétrifié, pétrifias, pétrifiâtes, pétrifiâmes, pétrifiai, pétrifia, pétrifièrent phantom: fantôme, apparition phantoms: fantômes phenomenon: phénomène philanthropic: philanthropique phrase: locution, phrase, phraser, groupe de mots phrases: phrases piano: piano picked: cueillirent, cueillîtes, cueillis, cueillîmes, cueilli, cueillit, piquas, piqua, piquâtes, piquèrent, piquâmes picket: piquet de grève, piquet pieces: morceaux pierced: perçâmes, perçai, perçâtes, perça, percèrent, percé, perças piercing: perçant pile: tas, amas, pile, pilotis, pieu, foule, pilot, hémorrhoïde, multitude, masse, empiler piled: entassé pilgrim: pèlerin pilgrimage: pèlerinage pilgrims: pèlerins pilot: pilote, onde pilote, piloter pink: rose, œillet pipe: tuyau, tube, pipe, conduite, retassure pitch: tangage, hauteur tonale, pas, tonie, poix, écartement, inclinaison, espacement, ton, longueur, brai pitiful: pitoyable, pauvre, misérable, malheureux, lamentable pitiless: impitoyable pity: pitié, plaindre, compassion, compatir, apitoiement, avoir pitié, mal, s'apitoyer placed: placé placid: placide placidity: placidité plain: plaine, clair, uni, ordinaire, net, limpide, évident plainly: de manière plaine planet: planète plank: planche, panneau plastered: plâtré plates: plaques plato: Platon

playful: espiègle pleading: plaidant, plaidoirie pleased: content, satisfait, plu pleasure: plaisir, jouissance plenty: abondance plotting: traçage, traçant, levé pluck: cueillir, ramasser, plumer, courage, fressure plumpness: turgescence, rondeur plunder: piller, ravir, pillage pocket: poche, empocher, case pockets: empoche, cases, poches pointed: pointu, aigu pointing: pointage poisoned: empoisonné poke: écrire en mémoire vive, attiser, pousser, poussée, ringarder policeman: policier, agent de police, agent polished: poli ponderous: pesant, lourd ponderously: de façon pesante, de manière pesante pool: piscine, mare, tour de table, cagnotte, groupement, s'accoupler, équipe, pool, poule, gisement, mettre en commun pop: dépilement, dépiler, petit coup de mine, pop, sauter port: port, bâbord, accès, porte, lumière, orifice, porto portico: portique portrait: portrait pose: poser, poses, posons, posent, posez, pose, agir avec affectation, s'ériger en positively: de façon positive, de manière positive possessed: possédas, possédâtes, possédâmes, possédai, posséda, possédèrent, possédé possession: possession pounded: martelé poured: versé pouring: coulage, coulée, versant poverty: pauvreté, misère powerless: impuissant practically: de façon pratique, de manière pratique, pratiquement prayer: prière praying: priant preaching: prêchant precarious: précaire preceded: précédas, précédâtes, précédâmes, précédai, précéda, précédèrent, précédé, avancé, avançâtes, avanças, avançâmes precedence: priorité, préséance precious: précieux, rare precipice: abîme, précipice, gouffre precision: précision, exactitude predecessor: prédécesseur

Joseph Conrad prefect: préfet prehistoric: préhistorique prejudice: préjugé, préjudice preliminary: préliminaire presented: présenté presently: actuellement preserve: conserver, confire, préserver, maintenir, confiture, conserve, mettre en conserve, retenir, réserve preside: présider, préside, présides, présidez, présidons, président pressed: appuyé, pressâmes, pressa, pressées, pressés, pressai, pressée, pressé, estampé à la presse pressing: pressage, pressurage, pressant, pression presumably: vraisemblablement pretend: feindre, feins, feignons, feignent, feignez, prétexter, prétendre, prétextons, prétexte, prétextent, prétextes pretending: feignant, prétextant, prétendant pretense: prétention pretty: joli, mignon, aimable, bath, assez prey: proie pride: fierté, orgueil primeval: primitif, primordial primitive: primitif, primitive princess: princesse principles: principes print: imprimer, impression, imprimé, épreuve, gravure, estampe, copie, caractères, empreinte, tirer privation: privation privilege: privilège, privilégier probability: probabilité proceeded: procédas, procédâtes, procédâmes, procédèrent, procédai, procéda, procédé, avançâtes, avancé, avançâmes, avançai proceeding: procédant, avançant proceedings: débats, actes, procédure prodigious: prodigieux producing: produisant profession: profession profitable: rentable, profitable, lucratif profound: profond profoundly: profondément, de manière profonde, de façon profonde profundity: profondeur projected: projeté projectile: projectile prolonged: prolongeas, prolongeâtes, prolongeai, prolongèrent, prolongeâmes, prolongea, prolongé promise: promettre, promets,

promettent, promettez, promettons, assurer promised: promîtes, promîmes, promit, promirent, promis promotion: promotion, avancement, année pronounced: prononças, prononçâtes, prononçai, prononcèrent, prononçâmes, prononça, prononcé pronouncement: déclaration propensity: propension properly: convenablement, proprement, comme il faut, correctement, de façon convenable, de manière convenable propitiatory: propitiatoire prospect: perspective, prospecter prospered: prospéras, prospérâtes, prospéré, prospérèrent, prospérai, prospérâmes, prospéra protective: protecteur protested: protestées, protestés, protesta, protesté, protestée protests: proteste proud: fier, altier, orgueilleux proudly: fièrement, de manière fire, de façon fire proved: prouvas, prouvâtes, prouvèrent, prouva, prouvai, prouvâmes provisions: provisions, dispositions, vivres provoke: provoquer, provoque, provoques, provoquons, provoquez, provoquent, irriter, agacer provoking: provoquant prowling: rôdant proximity: proximité, voisinage prudence: prudence, précaution prudently: de manière prudente, de façon prudente, prudemment prying: fureteur publication: publication, parution puff: bouffée, souffle pug: carlin, hourder, malaxeur étireur pulled: tirai, tirâmes, tiras, tirèrent, tirâtes, tira, tiré pulsating: pulsatoire pulse: pouls, impulsion, pulsation pumping: pompage, pompant purchase: achat, acheter, emplette, acquérir, acquisition purchases: achats, achète pure: pur, blanc, propre purely: purement, de manière pure, de façon pure purple: pourpre, violet pursued: poursuivîmes, poursuivîtes, poursuivirent, poursuivit, poursuivis, poursuivi pursuing: poursuivant push: pousser, poussée, poussez

113 pushing: poussant puzzling: curieux, mystérieux pyjamas: pyjama quantity: quantité, grandeur quarrel: querelle, dispute, se quereller, se disputer, noise quarrels: querelles quarrelsome: querelleur quarry: carrière quart: litre, pinte, quart, grande bouteille queer: bizarre questioned: questionna, questionnai, questionnés, questionnée, questionné questioning: questionnant, interrogateur, interrogation, questionnement, sondage quick: rapide, prompt, vite quickening: dégourdissement, accélération, hâtant, accélérant quiet: calme, tranquille, paisible, quiet, abattre, silencieux, rassurer, repos quietly: paisiblement, tranquillement, de manière calme, de façon calme, calmement quivering: frisson, tremblant radiant: rayonnant, radieux rag: chiffon, lambeau, torchon, haillon, guenille rags: chiffons raid: raid, razzia, rafle rail: rail, barre, longeron, rambarde, rampe rails: entretoises de montants, supports de broches, rail rainbow: arc en ciel raising: élevage rank: rang, grade, rangée, file, tour ranks: rangs rapacious: rapace rapacity: rapacité rapid: rapide, prompt, rapides rapidly: rapidement, de manière rapide, de façon rapide rapids: rapides rare: rare, saignant rattle: cliquetis, claquer, crécelle, hochet rave: être fou, délirer ravine: ravin, abîme, ravine ravines: ravins raw: cru, brut, grossier, rustique, écru rays: rayons reaches: parvient readable: lisible realize: réaliser, comprendre, réalise, réalises, réalisons, réalisez, réalisent reap: moissonner, moissonne, moissonnent, moissonnes, moissonnez, moissonnons

114 reassured: rassuras, rassurâtes, rassura, rassurèrent, rassurâmes, rassurai, rassuré rebellious: rebelle, révolté rebels: rebelles recite: réciter, récite, récites, récitent, récitons, récitez reckless: insouciant, imprudent, téméraire reclaimed: régénérèrent, réclamèrent, réclamai, réclamâmes, réclamas, réclamâtes, régénéra, régénérai, régénérâmes, réclama, régénérâtes reclined: reposas, reposâtes, reposèrent, reposa, reposâmes, reposai, reposé recognition: reconnaissance, identification, récognition recollection: souvenir, mémoire recommendations: recommandations recommended: recommandâtes, recommandas, recommandâmes, recommandai, recommanda, recommandèrent, recommandé reconciled: réconcilias, réconciliâtes, réconcilia, réconciliai, réconcilié, réconcilièrent, réconciliâmes recondite: abstrus, obscur recover: récupérer, récupère, récupères, récupérez, récupérons, récupèrent, recouvrer, recouvre, recouvres, recouvrez, recouvrons recovered: récupéra, récupérèrent, récupérâtes, récupéras, récupérâmes, récupérai, récupéré, recouvras, recouvrâtes, recouvra, recouvrèrent recrudescence: recrudescence redeeming: rachetant redeems: rachète reeds: roseaux referring: référant reflecting: reflétant, réfléchissant, renvoyant reflection: réflexion, reflet refuge: refuge, abri, retraite refuse: refuser, détritus, déchets, repousser, rejeter, ordures refused: refusé regard: considérer, considérez, considérons, considères, considèrent, considère, estime, regarder, contempler, égard, regard regions: régions regret: regret, regretter, ménager regrets: regrette regularity: régularité rehearsing: répétant rejects: rebute, rejette relation: relation, abord, rapport relative: parent, relatif, parente relieved: soulagea, soulagèrent,

Heart of Darkness soulageâtes, soulageas, soulageâmes, soulageai, soulagé reluctance: réluctance, répugnance reluctantly: à regret, de manière peu disposée, à contrecœur, de façon peu disposée remaining: restant, qui reste, autre remark: remarque, observation, commentaire, remarquer remarkable: remarquable, saillant, insigne remarkably: de manière remarquable, de façon remarquable, remarquablement remarked: remarqué remarks: remarque remembered: retenu, retîntes, retint, retins, retînmes, rappelâtes, rappelas, rappelâmes, rappelai, retinrent, rappela remembering: retenant, rappelant reminded: rappela, rappelai, rappelâmes, rappelas, rappelâtes, rappelèrent, rappelé remote: lointain, distant, éloigné, loin, écarté, isolé removed: ôtai, ôtèrent, ôtâmes, ôtas, ôtâtes, supprimèrent, ôté, supprimai, supprimâmes, supprimas, supprimé rendered: plâtras, rendit, rendîmes, rendirent, rendîtes, plâtrèrent, plâtré, plâtrâtes, crépi, rendis, plâtrâmes renewed: renouvelas, renouvelâtes, renouvelai, renouvelâmes, renouvelèrent, renouvela, renouvelé, reconduisîmes, reconduisirent, reconduisis, reconduisit rent: loyer, louer, location repairs: réparations, répare repeated: répétâtes, répétas, répétai, répétâmes, répéta, répétèrent, répété, redîmes, redirent, redîtes, redit repeatedly: plusieurs fois, à plusieurs reprises, de manière répétée, de façon répétée repeating: répétant, redisant reply: réponse, répondre, répliquer, réplique repose: repos, se reposer, trêve reposed: reposé represent: représenter, représentes, représentez, représentent, représentons, représente, figurer represented: représentas, représentâtes, représentai, représenta, représentèrent, représentâmes, représenté representing: représentant

reproachful: de reproche, réprobateur repulse: rejeter, échec, repousser repulsive: répulsif, affreux, épouvantable, horrible, répugnant, repoussant reputation: réputation requisite: requis, condition requise resemble: ressembler, ressemble, ressembles, ressemblez, ressemblons, ressemblent, rejoindre, rejoignent, rejoignez, rejoignons, rejoins resembled: ressemblâtes, ressemblas, ressemblai, ressemblé, ressemblâmes, ressemblèrent, ressembla, rejoignit, rejoignîtes, rejoignîmes, rejoignirent resembling: ressemblant, rejoignant resented: ressenties, ressentirent, ressenti resenting: ressentant reservation: réservation, réserve reserved: réservé, réservée resignation: démission, résignation resist: résister, résiste, résistes, résistent, résistez, résistons, épargne, épargnes, enduit protecteur resolution: résolution, motion, définition, pouvoir de résolution resolve: résoudre, décider, résolution respect: respect, respecter respectable: respectable respected: respecté respective: respectif rested: reposé restlessly: de manière remuante, de façon remuante restrained: retint, retînmes, retins, retîntes, retinrent, retenu restraining: retenant restraint: contrainte retired: retiré, retraité, retirâtes, retiras, retirâmes, retira, retirèrent, retirai retreat: retraite, se retirer, décéder, recul, refuge retreating: dépilage en rabattant returning: renvoyant, retournant reverberating: réverbérant reverence: révérence revile: injurions, vilipendez, vilipendes, vilipendent, vilipende, vilipendons, insultons, insultent, injuriez, injuries, injurient revolt: révolte, se révolter revolving: tournant rhythmically: de manière rythmique, de façon rythmique rib: côte, nervure, membre ribbon: ruban ribs: côtes

Joseph Conrad riddle: énigme, puzzle, devinette, cribler, crible ride: chevaucher, tour, monter à cheval, aller en véhicule, aller, se déplacer, monter à bicyclette ridiculous: ridicule rifle: fusil, carabine rightly: correctement, de manière droite, de façon droite rigid: rigide, raide rigidly: rigidement, de manière rigide, de façon rigide ringlets: anglaises, repentirs rinsing: rinçant, rinçage ripe: mûr, fait ripple: ondulation, ride, onduler ripples: ondulations rising: élévation, levée, lever risking: risquant risky: risqué, périlleux, hasardeux, aléatoire rivers: rivières river-side: rive rivet: rivet, riveter, river roamed: erras, errâtes, errèrent, erra, errai, errâmes, erré, rôdâtes, rôdé, rôdas, rôdâmes roaming: itinérance, errant, rôdant roaring: rugissant robbed: pillèrent, pillâtes, pillas, pillâmes, pillai, pilla, pillé, ravîtes, ravi, ravîmes, ravirent robbery: vol, brigandage rocky: rocheux roll: rouleau, petit pain, rouler, roulis, enrouler, cylindre, tableau, roulement rolled: roulé rolling: roulage, roulis, roulement, roulant, cylindrage, laminage rome: Rome roof: toit, voûte roofs: toits rooted: enraciné rope: corde, cordage, filin rot: pourrir, pourrissent, pourrissez, pourris, pourrissons, pourriture rotten: pourri, mauvais rotting: pourrissant roughly: de manière brute, de façon brute, rudement rout: creuser les blancs d'un cliché, débâcle, déroute, détourer, fraiser, mettre en déroute routine: routine, habituel row: rangée, rang, ramer, file, tour, ligne rows: rangées rubbing: frottement, frottage rubbish: ordures, débris, déchets, absurdité, abattis, décombres rubbishy: de pacotille

rude: grossier, impoli, mal élevé rudimentary: rudimentaire rug: tapis ruined: ruiné ruinous: ruineux ruins: ruine, ruines ruled: hachuré rumble: grondement, ronronnement runs: court, coule, pistes, runs rush: jonc, ruée, se dépêcher, congestion, afflux, épreuve, afflux de sang, urgent, précipiter, hâte rushed: précipité rushes: épreuves de tournage russian: russe, langue russe rust: rouille, rouiller, se rouiller rustle: susurrer, bruissement, froufrouter rusty: rouillé ruthless: impitoyable sacred: sacré, saint sacrifice: sacrifier, sacrifice, consacrer, offrir, faire offrande, immoler sacrificed: sacrifié sad: triste, affligé, désolé, peiné, maussade, sombre sadly: de manière triste, tristement, de façon triste sagacious: intelligent, sensé, raisonnable sahara: Sahara sailed: navigué sailor: marin, matelot, navigateur sails: voiles, voilure sake: saké salary: salaire, appointements, traitement, rémunération, gaine salvage: sauvetage, récupération, sauver, salut salvation: salut sanctuary: sanctuaire, asile, réserve, refuge sand: sable, arène sandbank: banc de sable sandy: sableux, sablonneux sane: raisonnable sang: chantas, chantâtes, chantèrent, chantâmes, chanta, chantai sarcophagus: sarcophage satanic: satanique satiated: rassasié satisfaction: satisfaction, contentement satisfactory: satisfaisant satisfied: satisfait, satisfîmes, satisfîtes, satisfit, satisfis, satisfirent, content, contenta, contentèrent, contenté, contentâtes savage: sauvage savagery: barbarie, sauvagerie saves: épargne, sauve, économise,

115 enregistre, sauvegarde saving: épargnant, sauvant, économisant, économie, épargne, enregistrant, sauvegardant, sauvegarde scandal: scandale, agacement scandalized: scandalisâtes, scandalisèrent, scandalisas, scandalisâmes, scandalisai, scandalisa, scandalisé scar: cicatrice, balafre scare: effrayer scared: effrayé scarlet: écarlate scars: cicatrices scathing: acerbe, caustique scattered: dispersé, dispersâmes, dispersèrent, dispersas, dispersai, dispersa, dispersâtes, répandu, répandîtes, répandit, répandis scientifically: de manière scientifique, de façon scientifique, scientifiquement scornfully: de manière dédaigneuse, de façon dédaigneuse scotch: écossais scoundrel: canaille, gredin, crapule, fripouille, scélérat, vaurien, chenapan scow: chaland scrambled: brouillé scrap: ferraille, lambeau, chiffon, déchets, débris, fragment, mettre au rebut, rebut scrape: gratter, racler, effacer en grattant scrawled: griffonnai, griffonna, griffonnèrent, griffonnâtes, griffonnâmes, gribouillâtes, gribouilla, gribouillas, gribouillâmes, gribouillai, gribouillèrent screamed: crié screech: crisser, crissement, hurlement, hurler screeching: cris perçants scrub: broussailles, frotter, maquis, scrub scruple: scrupule scrutinizing: scrutant scuffle: bagarre, combat, bataille, baroud, rixe, se bagarrer seal: phoque, sceller, sceau, scellé, cachet, cacheter, plomber, joint, obturer sealed: scellé, étanche, hermétique, fermé sealing: scellement, étanchéité, plombage, cachetage, obturation, fermeture seaman: marin seamen: marins

116 searching: recherche, chercher, fouille seconds: secondes secrecy: secret secret: secret, arcane secretarial: de secrétaire, de secrétariat secretly: secrètement, de manière secrète, de façon secrte, en secret sections: parties secular: séculaire, séculier sedentary: sédentaire seduced: séduisîmes, séduisîtes, séduisirent, séduisis, séduisit, séduit, dévoyé, dévoyâtes, dévoyas, dévoyâmes, dévoyai seed: semence, graine, pépin, germe, ensemencer seldom: rarement self: même, soi sending: envoyant, adressant, envoi sends: envoie, adresse senile: sénile, gaga sensation: sensation, sentiment senseless: insensé, déraisonnable, stupide, sans connaissance sensible: raisonnable, prudent, sensé sentences: phrases sententiously: de manière sentencieuse, de façon sentencieuse sentiment: sentiment sentimental: sentimental separating: séparant, séparer separation: séparation, abandon, décollement, espacement, scission sepulcher: sépulcre sepulchral: sépulcral serene: serein, tranquille serenity: sérénité serve: servir, servons, servent, sers, servez, desservir, service, être de service, desservent, desservez, desservons served: servit, servîtes, servis, servîmes, servirent, servi, desservis, desservit, desservîtes, desservîmes, desservi servile: aplaventriste, servile setting: réglage, cadre, calage, sertissage settle: régler, réglons, réglez, règles, règlent, règle, s'abattre, s'abaisser, coloniser settlement: règlement, colonie, liquidation, accord, possession, tassement, colonisation, établissement, arrangement settlements: règlements settlers: colons severe: sévère, austère, grave, difficile, dur, rigoureux severely: sévèrement, de manière

Heart of Darkness sévère, de façon sévère shabby: mesquin, usé, miteux shade: ombre, nuance, teinte, ombrage, ombrager, nuancer, ombrer shadow: ombre, prendre en filature shadows: ombres shadowy: ombragé shady: ombreux, ombragé shaft: arbre, fût, axe, puits, hampe, manche, timon, tige, brancard, puits de mine shake: secouer, secoue, secouons, secouez, secoues, secouent, ébranler, ébranlez, ébranles, ébranlent, ébranle shakes: secoue, ébranle shakily: de manière tremblotante, de façon tremblotante shaking: secouant, ébranlant, ébranlement, secousse shallow: peu profond, superficiel sham: comédie, faux shamefacedly: de manière timide, de façon timide shamefully: de manière honteuse, de façon honteuse shameless: effronté, éhonté, impudent shanty: baraque shaped: façonné, profilé shapes: façonne sharing: partage, participation, partageant sharp: aigu, acéré, coupant, tranchant, perçant, piquant, précisément, dièse, âcre, à l'heure, justement sharply: de manière aigue, de façon aigue, brusquement, nettement shaved: rasé shed: hangar, verser, abri, versai, versas, versâmes, versa, versons, versez, verses, versèrent sheen: lustre, reflet sheer: coup de barre, à pic, absolu, abrupt, accore, tonture, transparent, tissu transparent, faire une embardée, faire des embardées, embardée shell: coquille, coque, conque, écorce, carapace, dépouiller, écaille, pièce galvanique, enveloppe, décortiquer, égrener shelling: écaillage, bombardement shelter: abri, abriter, refuge, s'abriter, gîte, garantir, se mettre à l'abri, se retrancher, héberger shift: décalage, équipe, déplacer, changement, poste, décaler, changer shines: reluit shining: luisant, brillant

shiny: brillant, luisant ship: navire, bateau, expédier, expédie, expédions, expédiez, expédies, expédient, vaisseau ships: expédie shipwreck: naufrage, épave shoal: diminuer, banc de poissons, banc de poisson, banc de sable, basse, platier, maigre shoals: bancs shock: choc, choquer, secouer, heurter, secousse, moyette shocked: choqué shocking: choquant shocks: choque shoe: chaussure, soulier, sabot, ferrer shoes: souliers, chaussures shook: secoua, secouèrent, secouâtes, secouas, secouâmes, secouai, ébranlâtes, ébranlas, ébranlâmes, ébranlai, ébranla shoot: tirer, tires, tire, tirent, tirez, tirons, pousse, glissière shore: rive, bord, côte, rivage, accore, côte rivage, étançon, étayer, étai shores: rives shortly: prochainement, de façon courte, de manière courte, bientôt shoulder: épaule, accotement, épaulement shoulders: épaules shout: crier, cri, pousser des cris shouted: crié shouting: crier, cris, criant, clameur shower: douche, averse, gerbe, se doucher, ondée, prendre une douche shrieking: cris perçants, hurlement, hurler shrillness: acuité shrunken: rabougri, rétréci shudder: frémissement, frisson, frissonner shuffle: mélanger, mêler, retourner, traîner les pieds shuffled: déramé shuffling: réarrangement, entrelacement shut: fermer, arrêter, fermé shutter: obturateur, volet shy: timide, ombrageux sick: malade, malsain sickened: écoeuras, écoeurâtes, écoeurâmes, écoeura, écoeurèrent, écoeurai, écoeuré sickly: maladif, de manière malade, écoeurant, de façon malade, malsain sigh: soupir sights: chercheur signature: signature significance: signification, importance, valeur significative

Joseph Conrad signs: signes, signe silencing: amortissement de bruit silent: silencieux silently: silencieusement, de manière silencieuse, de façon silencieuse silly: idiot, stupide, bête silvery: argenté simplicity: simplicité sin: péché, pécher, commettre une faute sincere: sincère sincerity: sincérité, bonne foi sinister: sinistre sink: évier, forer, couler, lavabo, sombrer, toucher, puits, enfoncer, rencontrer, collecteur sinking: affaissement, naufrage sixteen: seize sixty: soixante skepticism: scepticisme sketch: esquisse, croquis, esquisser, ébauche skinned: décortiqué, écorché skinny: maigre, maigrichon skins: carters skipper: capitaine, skipper sky: ciel, le ciel slandered: médites, médis, médit, médite, médits slapped: giflé slaughter: abattre, abattage, massacre, tuerie, carnage sleeping: dormant sleepless: sans sommeil sleepy: somnolent sleeves: manches slender: mince, svelte, maigre slept: dormi, dormîmes, dormis, dormit, dormîtes, dormirent, dormies slide: diapositive, coulisse, glissière, glisser, glissoire, glissement, coulisser, coulisseau, lame, glissade sliding: glissement, coulissant, glissant slight: léger, affront, insignifiant slim: mince, amincir, amaigrir, maigrir slime: limon, boue, vase, bourbe slimy: visqueux, vaseux, limoneux slipped: glissé slippers: pantoufles slips: coins de retenue slope: pente, côte, talus, inclinaison, déclivité, versant slow: lent, lentement, lourd, ralentir sluggish: lent, paresseux slumber: dormir, sommeil, sommeiller sly: rusé, malin, astucieux, artificieux smallest: le plus petit smartly: de manière rusée, de façon

rusée smash: fracasser, briser, réduire en miettes, écraser smears: enduit smell: odeur, sentir, odorat, flairer, embaumer, exhaler un odeur smelly: malodorant smiling: souriant smoke: fumée, fumer, fumes, fume, fument, fumez, fumons smoking: fumant, fumage, fumer, tabagisme smooth: lisse, uni, plat, lisser, douce, égaliser, polir smoothly: de manière lisse, de façon lisse, facilement snag: accroc, anomalie, chicot, obstacle, problème snake: serpent snapped: pressionné snapping: croquage par cisaillement snare: piège, collet snatched: saisi sniff: renifler sniffing: inhalation snored: ronflé snowy: neigeux snuff: tabac à priser sober: sobre sociable: sociable socks: chaussettes softness: douceur, mollesse soil: sol, terre, souiller, salir, barbouiller sole: sole, semelle, seul, plante, plante du pied, pur solely: seulement, de manière sole, uniquement, de façon sole solemn: solennel solemnly: solennellement, de manière solennelle, de façon solennelle soles: soles solid: solide, massif solitude: solitude somber: sombre, maussade somehow: d'une façon ou d'une autre, de façon ou d'autre somnambulist: somnambule soothed: calmèrent, rassura, rassurai, rassurâmes, rassuras, rassurâtes, rassurèrent, calmâtes, abattîtes, rassuré, calmâmes soothing: lénitif, calmant, apaisant, abattant, rassurant soothingly: de manière lénitive, de façon lénitive sorcerer: sorcier sordid: sordide sorrow: abattement, chagrin sorrowful: affligé, triste sorrows: chagrins

117 soul: âme sounded: sonna, sonnâmes, sonnés, sonnèrent, sonnées, sonné sounding: sondage, sonore soundless: insonore sounds: sonne, sons spaces: espaces spare: épargner, économiser, être indulgent, rechange, pièce de rechange spark: étincelle sparkling: étincelant, brillant, mousseux, pétillant spat: naissain speaking: parlant, parler spear: lance, javelot specially: spécialement, particulièrement, surtout, de manière spéciale, de façon spéciale specimen: spécimen, échantillon speck: tache, moucheture specks: point noir, grains d'adhésif, taches spectacles: lunettes spectators: spectateurs spectral: spectral spectrally: de manière spectrale, de façon spectrale speedily: de manière rapide, de façon rapide, rapidement spell: épeler, charme, sortilège sphere: sphère spin: rotation, vrille, filler la laine, tourner, filer, spin splash: clapoter, éclabousser, éclaboussure, barboter, gicler splashes: éclabousse splashing: barbotage splay: ébrasement, évasement, ébraser, tourner en dehors, ouverture de l'évasement, rétrécis splendid: splendide, magnifique splendidly: de manière splendide, de façon splendide splendor: splendeur spoiled: gâté spoils: abîme spoken: parlé spokes: effet de traces radiales sur écran radar, nervure radiale sport: sport, sports spot: tache, endroit, place, point, destination, lieu, salir, localité, souiller, spot, message publicitaire spotted: tacheté spread: enduire, étaler, étendre, dispersion, écart, diffusion, propagation, se propager, tartiner, se répandre spreading: diffusion, épandage, enduction, enduisage sprouting: pousse

118 spy: espion, épier square: carré, place, équerre, droit, esplanade, rectangle, case, square squeeze: presser, serrer, compression, appuyer en écrasant, esquiche, coup de ventouse, pression squinted: loucha, louchai, louchâtes, louchâmes, louchèrent, louchas, louché stabbed: poignardé stack: pile, entasser, tas, accumuler, empiler, cheminée, meule, ramasser, rassembler, gerber stacked: empilé, entreposé, superposé stacks: piles staggered: disposé en quinconce staggering: chancelant, renversant staircase: escalier, cage d'escalier stakes: prix stake stammered: bégayé stammering: bégaiement, bégayant stamp: timbre, estampiller, timbrer, cachet, poinçon, estampille, tampon, estamper, empreinte, tamponner, marque stamped: affranchi, timbré stamping: poinçonnage, estampillage, estampage, emboutissage, timbrage, cachet starched: amidonné stare: dévisager, regard fixe, fixer, regarder fixement, regard starlight: lumière des étoiles stars: étoiles startled: effarouché, effarouchâmes, surprîtes, effarouchas, effarouchâtes, effarouchèrent, surprîmes, surprit, alarmèrent, surprirent, alarmé startling: surprenant startlingly: de façon surprenante, de manière surprenante starvation: inanition, famine stately: imposant station-yard: verge-station statuesque: sculptural steadily: de manière régulire, de façon régulire steadiness: régularité, fermeté, stabilité steady: régulier, stable steal: voler, dérober, dépouiller, d'acier, subtiliser, volent steam: vapeur, étuver, buée steamboat: bateau à vapeur steamed: à la vapeur, vapeur la, passé à la pression steamer: vapeur, marmite à vapeur steaming: ébouillantage, étuvage, vaporisage, traitement à la vapeur, injection de vapeur, procédé d'étuvage, fumant, stérilisation à la

Heart of Darkness vapeur sous pression steep: raide, escarpé, à pic, abrupt, tremper, trempent, trempons, trempes, trempe, trempez steer: diriger, conduire, boeuf, piloter, bouvillon, gouverner steered: asservi steering: direction, conduite, pilotage stepped: échelonné stepping: étagement, avance d'un ou de plusieurs pas, bois de marche, gradins, exploitation en gradins renversés, modification d'instruction, recul d'un ou de plusieurs pas stick: bâton, coller, canne, bâtonnet, stick, groupe de saut, s'agglutiner, crosse, coincer, baguette sticks: bûches, en bâtons stiffened: raidîmes, raidîtes, raidit, raidirent, raidis, raidi stifling: étouffant stillness: tranquillité, calme sting: piquer, aiguillon, piqûre, piquant, dard stink: puanteur, puer, empester stir: remuer, émouvoir, affecter, battre, vigueur, faire tournoyer, agitation, agiter, bouger stirred: remué stirring: agitation stolen: volé, volés, volée stones: pierres stonily: de manière pierreuse stony: pierreux stool: tabouret, banquette, escabeau, selles stooping: dépilage, baisse, penché, perchage, mirage raccourcissant verticalement l'image storeroom: débarras, dépôt, économat, entrepôt, soute, magasin, magasin général, réserve stores: entrepose stout: corpulent, fort, gros, stout straighten: redresser, redresses, redressent, redresse, redressons, redressez straightened: redressa, redressâmes, redressai, redressas, redressèrent, redressâtes, redressé straightforward: simple, pur, franc strain: souche, tension, effort, fatigue, tendre strained: tendu strangely: étrangement, de façon étrange, de manière étrange strangers: étrangers strayed: écartâmes, écartée, écarta, écartai, écartées stream: courant, ruisseau, jet, fleuve, flot, rivière

streams: filières stress: tension, contrainte, souligner, accentuer, stress, accent, effort, sollicitation stretch: tendre, étirer, étendre, allongement, s'étendre, s'étirer stretched: tendu stretcher: brancard, civière, tendeur, châssis, panneresse stretches: étire stretching: étirement, étirage stricken: affligé, accablé, blessé stride: pas, faire les cent pas, foulée, enjambée strike: grève, frapper, heurter, toucher, forer, battre, saisir, rencontrer, s'allumer, atteindre, parvenir strikes: grèves, asséne striking: frappant string: corde, ficelle, chaîne, défiler, cordon, limon, rame strings: cordes, ficelles, instruments à cordes strip: bande, bandeau, se déshabiller, rayure, dépouiller, raie, déshabiller, bande photographique, bande d'atterrissage, lame, feuillard striped: rayé, à rayures stripped: dégarni, désarmé, dénudé, dépouillé, dépouilla, dépouillâmes, dépouillai, dépouillés strips: dépouille striving: combattant stroll: promenade, se promener, faire un tour, flâner strolling: ambulant, marche de santé strongly: fortement, de manière forte, de façon forte struck: frappé struggled: lutté struggling: luttant stuck: collé, être embourbé studying: étude stumbled: trébuché stupid: stupide, sot, idiot, bébête, bête, abruti suavely: de manière doucereuse, de façon doucereuse subdued: soumîmes, soumîtes, soumit, soumirent, soumis, subjuguâtes, subjuguas, subjuguâmes, subjugué, subjuguai, subjugua subsided: s'affaissa, vous affaissâtes, t'affaissas, s'affaissé, nous affaissâmes, m'affaissai, s'affaissèrent substance: substance, fond subtle: subtil, fin succeeded: réussîmes, réussîtes, réussit, réussis, réussirent, réussi,

Joseph Conrad succédas, succédâtes, succédé, succédai, succédâmes successfully: de façon réussie, de manière réussie sudden: subit, soudain suffer: souffrir, souffre, souffrons, souffrent, souffres, souffrez, endurer, subir, subissez, subissent, subis suffered: souffrîmes, souffrîtes, souffrit, souffris, souffert, souffrirent, subîtes, subi, subîmes, subirent, subis suffering: souffrant, subissant, souffrance suffices: suffit suggestion: suggestion, proposition suggestive: suggestif sulky: boudeur, sulky summit: sommet, cime, faîte, comble, pointe, bout, haut, summon sunk: sombré, enfoncés, enfoncées, enfoncée, enfoncé sunken: creux, cave sunlight: lumière du soleil, lumière solaire sunlit: ensoleillé sunset: coucher du soleil sunshine: soleil, lumière du soleil superb: superbe, grandiose, magnifique superciliousness: hauteur supernatural: surnaturel superstition: superstition supported: soutenu, appuyé suppression: répression, suppression supreme: suprême surf: ressac surprise: surprendre, surprise surprised: surpris surprising: surprenant surrender: abandon, se rendre, reddition surrounded: entourâtes, entouras, entourai, entoura, entourèrent, entourâmes, entouré surrounding: entourant, environnant surroundings: alentours, abords, environs survived: survécûmes, survécurent, survécut, survécus, survécu suspect: soupçonner, suspecter, suspect, se méfier suspected: soupçonné suspicion: soupçon, méfiance, suspicion suspicious: méfiant, soupçonneux, suspect, sinistre sustained: maintîntes, maintint, maintins, maintinrent, maintînmes, maintenu, continuel, constant, appuyé, appuyèrent, appuyâtes

sustenance: nourriture, sustentation swallow: hirondelle, avaler, aronde, déglutir, gorgée, hirondelle de cheminée, gober, engloutir swallowed: avalé swamp: marais, marécage, inonder swarming: grouillement, essaimage sway: vaciller, balancement, oscillation, osciller, se balancer swaying: dandinement, déplacement latéral, balancement, oscillation, osciller, roulis swede: suédois sweep: balayer, balayage, courbure, draguer sweeping: balayage, balayant sweepings: balayures swell: gonfler, houle, enfler, gonflement, grossir, s'enfler, se gonfler swelling: gonflement, enflure, tuméfaction, foisonnement, grosseur, renflement swept: balayé swift: rapide, prompt, martinet noir, martinet swiftly: rapidement, vite, de manière rapide, de façon rapide swindled: escroqué, escroqués, escroquâmes, escroquée swing: balancer, balançoire, agiter, brandir, osciller, balancement, marge de découvert réciproque switching: commutation sword: épée, sabre, glaive swore: jurâtes, juras, jurâmes, jurèrent, jura, jurai sworn: juré, jurées swung: pivotai symbolic: symbolique sympathy: sympathie, compassion tables: tables tackle: palan, aborder, s'avancer, agrès, équipement, atteler, tacle, tirefort tail: queue tails: habit, queues, rejet taint: infection, entacher tainted: corrompu tale: conte, récit, relation talked: parlas, parlâtes, parlai, parla, parlèrent, parlâmes, parlé tall: haut, grand tan: bronzer, brunir, ocre, bronzage, hâle, tanner tangled: embrouillé tanned: bronzé, basané, tanné tapped: entaillé, taraudé tatters: loques, lambeaux, guenilles tawny: fauve teach: enseigner, enseignes, enseignent, enseignons, enseignez,

119 enseigne, instruire, apprendre, instruisent, instruisez, instruis teaching: enseignant, instruisant, enseignement tear: déchirer, larme, pleur, déchirure tearfully: de manière éploré, de façon éplorée tearing: déchirement, déchirure tears: larmes teeth: dents, denture telegraphic: télégraphique telling: disant, racontant, enjoignant, commandant temperament: tempérament temperature: température tempestuous: orageux, passionné temple: temple, tempe temptation: tentation tended: soignâtes, surveillé, surveillâtes, surveillas, surveillâmes, surveillai, surveilla, soigné, soignas, soignâmes, soignai tender: offre, tendre, adjudication, doux, tender, annexe, offrir, présenter, proposition, gentil, suave tenderness: tendresse, tendreté tentative: provisoire, expérimental, tentative tents: tentes tepid: tiède terrible: terrible, affreux terrific: formidable terrifying: terrifiant territories: territoires terror: terreur, effroi thames: tamise theirs: leur thereabouts: alentour, autour therein: en cela thereupon: à ce sujet, sur ce thick: épais, dense, gros thickened: grossîtes, grossi, grossîmes, grossirent, grossis, grossit, épaissi, épaissirent, épaissis, épaissit, épaissîtes thickly: de manière épaisse, de façon épaisse thief: voleur thieving: volant, prise d'échantillon, fauche thin: mince, maigre, fin thinks: pense thirst: soif, avoir soif thirsty: assoiffé, altéré thoughtful: pensif, réfléchi thoughtlessly: de manière irréfléchie, de façon irréfléchie thrall: servitude thread: fil, filet, enfiler, fileter, filetage threadbare: usé threat: menace threshold: seuil

120 threw: jetâmes, jeta, jetai, jetèrent throb: palpiter throttle: étrangler, accélérateur, papillon des gaz, manette des gaz throttling: étranglement throw: jeter, jet, lancer, projeter, course, lancement thrown: jeté thrust: poussée, pousser thump: cogner, frapper thumping: pilonnement thunder: tonnerre, tonner, retenir thundering: énorme, tonnerre, tonitruant thunderingly: de manière tonnerre, de façon tonnerre tidal: de la marée, marée tide: marée tie: cravate, attacher, lien, nouer, attache, lier, relier, traverse, tirant, liaison tight: strict, serré, tendu, étroit, étanche till: caisse, à, jusqu'à ce que tin: étain, étamer, tôle tingle: picotement tiny: minuscule tip: pourboire, bout, pointe, cime, sommet, tuyau, conseil tipped: pourvu d'une plaquette, embouté tired: fatigué, las tobacco: tabac toe: orteil, doigt du pied, bout toil: travailler dur, labeur tolerant: tolérant toll: péage, sonner ton: tonne tone: ton, tonalité, tonicité, timbre tongue: langue, languette topple: basculer, bascule, renverse, tombez, tombes, tombent, tombe, tombons, renversons, renversent, basculons tops: tête de distillation torch: torche, lampe de poche, lampe torche, flambeau torment: torture, tourmenter, supplice torn: déchiré toss: lancement, tirage au sort tottered: titubèrent, vacilla, vacillai, vacillâmes, vacillas, vacillèrent, vacillé, titubé, chancelai, vacillâtes, titubas touched: touché toward: vers, en, à, en relation avec tower: tour, pylône towering: très haut, mirage allongeant verticalement l'image trace: trace, tracer, décalquer, calquer, empreinte, impression, trait, piste,

Heart of Darkness retracer trader: commerçant, marchand trading: commerçant, commerce tragic: tragique tragically: de manière tragique, de façon tragique, tragiquement trail: piste, traîner, chemin, sentier trailed: traîné tramp: clochard, tramp, vagabond tramping: transport maritime à la demande trance: transe tranquil: tranquille, calme, paisible transactions: actes transfixed: transperças, transpercé, transperçâtes, transperçai, transperça, transperçâmes, transpercèrent transparent: transparent transported: transporté trash: camelote traveled: voyageai, voyageâtes, voyageas, voyageâmes, voyagèrent, voyagé, voyagea traveling: voyageant traversed: traversé treacherous: traître, déloyal treading: côchage, piétinage, marcher treasure: trésor, cassette treat: traiter, régaler, soigner, régal, guérir trembled: tremblé tremor: tremblement tremulous: timide, tremblotant tremulously: de manière tremblotante, de façon tremblotante trenchant: tranchant tribe: peuplade trick: artifice, truc, mystifier, astuce, tour, ruse trickle: dégouliner, tomber goutte à goutte, filet, filet ruisseler tricks: truquages tries: essaye trifle: bagatelle, babiole trifling: mineur trimmed: paré, taillé, rogné trip: voyage, déclenchement triumph: triomphe, triompher triumphant: triomphant, triomphal tropical: tropical, tropique tropics: tropiques troubled: inquiet troupe: troupe trousers: pantalon truly: vraiment, réellement, en vérité, en fait, en réalité, véritablement trunks: services aériens intercontinentaux trustful: confiant truthfulness: véracité tuck: cueillir, cueillage, pli, groupé,

grouper, extrémité, nervure, renforcement tucking: accrochage, bourrage, charge, serrage aux doigts, tassement tumult: barouf, baroufle, bagarre, tumulte tumultuous: tumultueux tusk: défense twentieth: vingtième twig: rameau, brindille twigs: brindilles twilight: crépuscule twill: sergé, croisé twinkling: scintillement twist: tordre, torsion, torsade, torsader twisted: tordu twitching: contraction musculaire typical: typique, représentatif ugly: laid, vilain, moche, mauvais ultimate: ultime ultimately: finalement, enfin, de manière ultime, de façon ultime unalterable: immuable unapproachable: inaccessible, inabordable unarmed: désarmé, non armé, sans armes unavoidable: inévitable unavoidably: de manière inévitable, de façon inévitable unaware: inconscient, ignorant unbounded: illimité unbuttoned: déboutonnâmes, déboutonnèrent, déboutonné, déboutonnas, déboutonnai, déboutonna, déboutonnâtes uncanny: mystérieux unceasing: incessant uncivil: incivil uncle: oncle uncomfortable: inconfortable uncomplicated: complications, simple unconcerned: imperturbable uncongenial: antipathique unconnected: sans rapport unconscious: inconscient, évanoui, sans connaissance uncontrollable: incontrôlable uncouth: grossier underfoot: sous les pieds undergrowth: couverture vivante, broussailles undersized: dimension insuffisante, trop petit, immature understandable: compréhensible understood: comprîmes, compris, comprîtes, comprit, comprirent, comprise undertaken: entrepris

Joseph Conrad undertook: entrepris, entreprîtes, entreprirent, entreprîmes, entreprit unearthly: surnaturel, sinistre uneasiness: inquiétude, malaise uneasy: agité, inquiet, gêné unequal: inégal unexciting: ordinaire unexpected: inattendu, imprévu, inespéré unexpectedly: de façon inattendue, de manière inattendue, inopinément unexpectedness: soudaineté unexplored: inexploré unexpressed: inexprimé unfair: injuste, déloyal unfamiliar: inconnu unfathomable: insondable unfold: déplier, déplie, déplient, déplies, dépliez, déplions, se dérouler unforeseen: imprévu unfortunate: malheureux unhappy: malheureux, mécontent uniform: uniforme, tenue uninterrupted: ininterrompu universal: universel universe: univers unknown: inconnu, ignoré, inconnue unlawful: illégal, illégitime, illicite unmistakably: de manière indubitable, de façon indubitable unmoved: indifférent unnatural: anormal unnerved: déconcertâtes, déconcerté, déconcertèrent, déconcertâmes, déconcertai, déconcerta, déconcertas unostentatious: simple, sans ostentation unpardonable: inexcusable unpractical: peu pratique unreal: irréel unreasonably: de manière déraisonnable, de façon déraisonnable unresponsive: insensible unrestrained: effréné unscathed: indemne unseen: inaperçu unselfish: désintéressé unshaven: non rasé unsound: véreux unspeakable: indicible unstable: instable unstained: sans tache unsteadily: de façon instable, de manière instable unsteady: instable unswerving: inébranlable untouched: intact unwholesome: malsain uphill: montant upkeep: entretien

upper: supérieur, empeigne uproar: tumulte, vacarme, tapage upset: renverser, stupéfait, vexé, bouleverser, bouleversé upward: ascendant, vers le haut urged: exhorté urging: exhortant utter: répandre, émettre, proférer, prononcer utterance: déclaration, expression uttering: prononcer uttermost: extrême vacant: vide, vague, vacant vague: vague, imprécis, flou vaguely: vaguement, de manière vague, de façon vague vain: vain, vaniteux, abortif, frivole valuable: cher, coûteux, de valeur, précieux, objet de valeur van: camionnette, fourgon vanish: disparaître, disparais, disparaissez, disparaissons, disparaissent vanished: disparu, disparurent, disparûtes, disparut, disparûmes, disparus vanishing: disparaissant vanity: vanité, futilité vapor: vapeur varnished: verni vast: étendu, ample, vaste, large vegetation: végétation veil: voile, voiler veiled: voilé vein: veine, filon, veiner, nervure veins: veines, nervure venerable: vénérable venetian: vénitien vengeance: revanche, vengeance vengeful: vindicatif vent: évent, conduit, décharger, cheminée ventured: osé veranda: véranda veriest: le plus très verily: vraiment, en vérité vertical: vertical, verticale vexed: chagrina, chagrinai, chagrinâmes, chagrinas, chagrinâtes, chagriné, chagrinèrent, vexé, vexâtes, vexas, vexèrent vibrating: vibrant vibration: vibration, trépidation, frisson victorious: victorieux victory: victoire vigil: veille vigilantly: de manière vigilante, de façon vigilante vigor: vigueur vigorous: vigoureux vile: vil, abject, lâche, infâme

121 violence: violence violent: violent violently: violemment, de manière violente, de façon violente virgin: vierge, virginal virtue: vertu virtues: vertus visage: visage visible: visible, apparent, manifeste vision: vision, vue visitation: visite visited: visitas, visitâtes, visita, visité, visitèrent, visitai, visitâmes visitor: visiteur vital: vital vitality: vitalité vivaciously: de manière vivace, de façon vivace vivid: vif volubility: volubilité volume: volume, tome volunteer: volontaire, bénévole voracious: vorace voraciously: de manière vorace, de façon vorace voyage: voyage wade: marcher dans l'eau, patauger, patauge, pataugent, pataugeons, patauges, pataugez waded: pataugeas, pataugèrent, pataugeâtes, pataugeai, pataugea, pataugé, pataugeâmes wail: se lamenter, gémissement, gémir waist: taille, corset waited: attendu, attendîtes, attendit, attendis, attendîmes, attendirent wake: sillage, réveiller, se réveiller, se lever, s'éveiller waking: rester éveillé, réveiller wandered: erra, errèrent, errâtes, errai, errâmes, erras, erré, vaguâmes, vaguèrent, vagué, vaguas wanderer: vagabond wandering: errant, vaguant, vagabond, errance, nomade wanderings: pérégrinations wanting: voulant wanton: dévergondé wantonly: de manière dévergondée, de façon dévergondée ward: quartier, salle, pupille, service warlike: guerrier, belliqueux warning: avertissement, avertissant, sommation, alerte, alertant, recommandation, avis wars: guerres wart: verrue waste: gaspiller, déchets, gaspillons, gaspille, gaspillent, gaspilles, gaspillez, gaspillage, dissiper,

122 déchet, perte wasted: gaspilla, gaspillèrent, gaspillâtes, gaspillas, gaspillâmes, gaspillai, gaspillé, prodiguèrent, gâché, gâchâtes, gâchas wastes: gaspille, prodigue, gâche watches: montres, guette watchfully: de manière vigilante, de façon vigilante water-gauge: échelle d'étiage waters: eaux, arrose waterway: voie navigable, voie d'eau wave: vague, onde, agiter, brandir, onduler, lame waved: ondulé wavered: hésitas, hésitèrent, hésitâtes, hésitâmes, hésitai, hésita, hésité waving: ondulation weakness: faiblesse, débilité, impuissance, mollesse weaknesses: faiblesses wealth: richesse, fortune weaning: sevrage, sevrant weapon: arme weapons: armes wear: usure, porter, avoir, user wearily: de manière lasse, de façon lasse weariness: lassitude, fatigue wearing: ajustement, usure weary: las, fatigué weeping: pleurant weigh: peser, pèse, pèses, pèsent, pesons, pesez weighed: pesas, pesâtes, pesai, pesâmes, pesé, pesa, pesèrent weird: bizarre, singulier weirdly: de manière bizarre, de façon bizarre welcome: bienvenue, accueil, accueillir, bienvenu, accueilles, accueille, accueillent, accueillez, accueillons, recevoir solennellement welcoming: accueillant welded: soudas, soudâtes, souda, soudèrent, soudai, soudâmes, soudé wet: mouillé, humide, mouiller wharf: quai, appontement wheel: roue, volant, galet wheels: roues whence: d'où whiff: coup de vent, loupent, loupons, loupes, loupe, loupez, louper, bouffée whirl: tourbillon, faire tournoyer, battre, tourbillonner whiskers: bavures fines, barbes, barbe, trichite, trichites, favoris, moustaches, monocristaux orientés whisper: chuchoter, chuchotement, murmurer

Heart of Darkness whispered: chuchoté whispering: chuchotement whistle: siffler, sifflet, sifflement, coup de sifflet, siffloter whiteness: blancheur, pâleur whizz: filer whoop: cri, chant du coq, reprise widening: élargissement, élargissant widower: veuf wild: sauvage wilderness: désert winding: bobinage, enroulement, enroulage, sinueux wink: clin d'oeil, clignement, faire un clin d'oeil wiped: essuyas, essuyâtes, essuyai, essuyé, essuyâmes, essuya, essuyèrent wire: fil, toile, câbler, câble, brin, fil de fer wisdom: sagesse, intelligence wished: désira, souhaité, désirées, désirâmes, désirée, désirés wisp: brin witchcraft: sorcellerie withdrawn: retiré withdrew: retirâmes, retirèrent, retiras, retirai, retira, retirâtes withered: flétri, fané withering: flétrissure, flétrissement wonder: s'étonner, miracle, merveille, se demander wondered: demandé wonderful: merveilleux, formidable wonderfully: merveilleusement, de manière merveilleuse, de façon merveilleuse wooded: boisé wooden: de bois, en bois woods: bois, forêt wool: laine woolen: de laine, lainage, laineux, cardé woolly: laineux worker: ouvrier, travailleur worn: usé worried: inquiet worry: chagriner, avoir soin de, se soucier de, s'occuper, souci, inquiétude worst: pire, le plus mauvais worsted: peigné worthy: digne wound: blessure, blesser, plaie wounded: blessé, blessés wraith: apparition wrapped: enrobé wrapper: banderole, bande, cape wreck: épave, naufrage, détruire, accident wrecked: démoli, naufragé wrenching: soulevage

wretched: misérable, pauvre, infortuné, pitoyable, malheureux wring: tordre, tordent, tords, tordons, tordez writhe: se débattre, se démener writing-desk: secrétaire, commode à tablette pour écrire yacht: yacht yard: cour, yard, chantier, dépôt, vergue, parc yarns: fils yawl: yawl, yole yell: clamer, hurler, hurlement yelled: hurlé yelling: hurlement yellow: jaune, jaunir yells: hurle younger: plus jeune youth: jeunesse, ado, jeunes youthfully: de façon jeune, de manière jeune