I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger throu — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger throu — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger throu — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger throu — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger throu — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger throu — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger throu — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger throu — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger throu — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger throu — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger throu — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger throu — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger throu — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger throu — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger throu — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger throu — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger throu — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger throu — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger throu — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger throu — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger throu — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger throu — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger throu — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger throu — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger throu — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger throu — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger throu — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger throu — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger throu — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger throu — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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I let him run on, this papier-maché 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.

— Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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