Quotation from: The Arrow of Gold

Written by: Joseph Conrad

There was under the table the noise of Mills stretching his legs.

"A person of imagination," he began, "a young, virgin intelligence,
steeped for nearly five years in the talk of Allegre's studio,
where every hard truth had been cracked and every belief had been
worried into shreds. They were like a lot of intellectual dogs,
you know . . ."