The best evidence to support the statement "The Company was filled with ambitious employees" is the line: "They were going to run an over-sea empire and make no end of coin by trade." This indicates the aspirations and ambitious plans of the employees, highlighting their desire to establish a grand enterprise and achieve financial success through trade.
The following passage is narrated by a sailor named Charlie Marlow. Select the best evidence to support the statement "The Company was filled with ambitious employees."
"I flew around like mad to get ready and before forty-eight hours, I was crossing the Channel to show myself to my employers and sign the contract. In a very few hours, I arrived in a city that always makes me think of a whited sepulchre.
Prejudice no doubt. I had no difficulty in finding the Company's offices. It was the biggest thing in the town, and everybody I met was full of it. They were going to run an over-sea empire and make no end of coin by trade.
"A narrow and deserted street in deep shadow, high houses, innumerable windows with venetian blinds, a dead silence, grass sprouting right and left, immense double doors standing ponderously ajar. I slipped through one of these cracks, went up a swept and ungarnished staircase, as arid as a desert, and opened the first door I came to."
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