"The voyage isn't finished yet." Our new acquaintance paused, then added meditatively: "Queer man.

As if it made any difference.

Queer man." "It's certainly unwise to admit any sort of responsibility for our actions, whose consequences we are never able to foresee," remarked Marlow by way of assent.
"The consequence of his action was that I got a ship," said the other.
"That could not do much harm," he added with a laugh which argued a probably unconscious contempt of general ideas.
But Marlow was not put off.

He was patient and reflective.

He had been at sea many years and I verily believe he liked sea-life because upon the whole it is favourable to reflection.