Quotation from: The Arrow of Gold

Written by: Joseph Conrad

"Lunch precisely at midday. Mills will bring you along. I am
sorry you two are going. I shall throw myself on the bed for an
hour or two, but I am sure I won't sleep."

He accompanied us along the passage into the black-and-white hall,
where the low gas flame glimmered forlornly. When he opened the
front door the cold blast of the mistral rushing down the street of
the Consuls made me shiver to the very marrow of my bones.