Quotation from: The Arrow of Gold

Written by: Joseph Conrad

"They stared at each other. Dona Rita confessed to me that the old
fellow made her heart beat with such force that she couldn't manage
to smile at him. And she saw his eyes run full of tears. He wiped
them simply with the back of his hand and went on booming faintly.
'Thought so. You are enough to make one cry. I thought my
artist's life was finished, and here you come along from devil
knows where with this young friend of mine, who isn't a bad smearer
of canvases--but it's marble and bronze that you want. . . I shall
finish my artist's life with your face; but I shall want a bit of
those shoulders, too. . . You hear, Allegre, I must have a bit of
her shoulders, too. I can see through the cloth that they are
divine. If they aren't divine I will eat my hat. Yes, I will do
your head and then--nunc dimittis.'