." He spoke excitedly, all in one breath, and, ceasing suddenly, glared at Willems and breathed hard through his nose in sulky resentment.

Willems looked at him steadily for a moment, then got up.
"Almayer," he said resolutely, "I want to become a trader in this place." Almayer shrugged his shoulders.
"Yes.

And you shall set me up.

I want a house and trade goods--perhaps a little money.

I ask you for it." "Anything else you want?
Perhaps this coat ?" and here Almayer unbuttoned his jacket--"or my house--or my boots ?" "After all it's natural," went on Willems, without paying any attention to Almayer--"it's natural that she should expect the advantages which.