Quotation from: The Arrow of Gold

Written by: Joseph Conrad


"A terra-cotta bust, I believe. Good? I don't know. I rather
think it's in this house. A lot of things have been sent down from
Paris here, when she gave up the Pavilion. When she goes up now
she stays in hotels, you know. I imagine it is locked up in one of
these things," went on Blunt, pointing towards the end of the
studio where amongst the monumental presses of dark oak lurked the
shy dummy which had worn the stiff robes of the Byzantine Empress
and the amazing hat of the "Girl," rakishly. I wondered whether
that dummy had travelled from Paris, too, and whether with or
without its head. Perhaps that head had been left behind, having
rolled into a corner of some empty room in the dismantled Pavilion.
I represented it to myself very lonely, without features, like a
turnip, with a mere peg sticking out where the neck should have
been. And Mr. Blunt was talking on.

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