Quotation from: The Arrow of Gold

Written by: Joseph Conrad


"I can't imagine the devil inciting me to murder you, Therese," I
said, "and I didn't like that ready way you took me for an example,
as it were. I suppose pretty near every lodger might be a
potential murderer, but I expected to be made an exception."


With the candle held a little below her face, with that face of one
tone and without relief she looked more than ever as though she had
come out of an old, cracked, smoky painting, the subject of which
was altogether beyond human conception. And she only compressed
her lips.

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