"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."

This Quote is one of the first signs of the vicious and ruthless nature of the previously assumed omniscient Kurtz. It also speaks to how enthralled and devoted the young adventurer was to Kurtz, for he goes on idolizing the man without the slightest bit of hate for the fact that he threatened to kill him.