Quotation from: The Arrow of Gold

Written by: Joseph Conrad


He made a snatch at her hand, absolutely pulled it away from under
her head (it was quite startling) and retaining it in his grasp,
proceeded to a paternal patting of the most impudent kind. She let
him go on with apparent insensibility. Meanwhile his eyes strayed
round the table over our faces. It was very trying. The stupidity
of that wandering stare had a paralysing power. He talked at large
with husky familiarity.


"Here I come, expecting to find a good sensible girl who had seen
at last the vanity of all those things; half-light in the rooms;
surrounded by the works of her favourite poets, and all that sort
of thing. I say to myself: I must just run in and see the dear
wise child, and encourage her in her good resolutions. . . And I
fall into the middle of an intime lunch-party. For I suppose it is
intime. Eh? Very? H'm, yes . . . "

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