Quotation from: The Arrow of Gold

Written by: Joseph Conrad

"Yes, really," Blunt nodded and knitted his brows very devilishly
indeed. "She may yet be left without a single pair of stockings."

"The world's a thief," declared Mills, with the utmost composure.
"It wouldn't mind robbing a lonely traveller."

"He is so subtle." Blunt remembered my existence for the purpose
of that remark and as usual it made me very uncomfortable.
"Perfectly true. A lonely traveller. They are all in the scramble
from the lowest to the highest. Heavens! What a gang! There was
even an Archbishop in it."