Quotation from: The Arrow of Gold

Written by: Joseph Conrad

"Oh, for ages, for ages," she exclaimed hastily, frowning a little,
then she went on addressing herself to Mills, apparently in
continuation of what she was saying before.

. . . "This man's is an extreme case, and yet perhaps it isn't the
worst. But that's the sort of thing. I have no account to render
to anybody, but I don't want to be dragged along all the gutters
where that man picks up his living."