Quotation from: The Arrow of Gold

Written by: Joseph Conrad

She had gazed at the addressed envelope, smiled (I was looking up
at her from my desk), and at last took it up with an effort of
sanctimonious repugnance. But she remained with it in her hand
looking at me as though she were piously gloating over something
she could read in my face.

"Oh, that Rita, that Rita," she murmured. "And you, too! Why are
you trying, you, too, like the others, to stand between her and the
mercy of God? What's the good of all this to you? And you such a
nice, dear, young gentleman. For no earthly good only making all
the kind saints in heaven angry, and our mother ashamed in her
place amongst the blessed."