Quotation from: The Arrow of Gold

Written by: Joseph Conrad


The intruder devoured the cutlets--if they were cutlets.
Notwithstanding my perfect liberty of mind I was not aware of what
we were eating. I have a notion that the lunch was a mere show,
except of course for the man with the white hair, who was really
hungry and who, besides, must have had the pleasant sense of
dominating the situation. He stooped over his plate and worked his
jaw deliberately while his blue eyes rolled incessantly; but as a
matter of fact he never looked openly at any one of us. Whenever
he laid down his knife and fork he would throw himself back and
start retailing in a light tone some Parisian gossip about
prominent people.

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