Both Uses of
consequence
in
Heart of Darkness
- 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.†
Chpt 2 *
- "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.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(consequence as in: a direct consequence of) a result of something (often an undesired side effect)