Quotation from: The Arrow of Gold

Written by: Joseph Conrad


I had no notion whether Therese could hear me. I seemed to
remember that she slept in any bed that happened to be vacant. For
all I knew she might have been asleep in mine. As I had no matches
on me I waited for a while in the dark. The house was perfectly
still. Suddenly without the slightest preliminary sound light fell
into the room and Therese stood in the open door with a candlestick
in her hand.


She had on her peasant brown skirt. The rest of her was concealed
in a black shawl which covered her head, her shoulders, arms, and
elbows completely, down to her waist. The hand holding the candle
protruded from that envelope which the other invisible hand clasped
together under her very chin. And her face looked like a face in a
painting. She said at once:

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