Quotation from: The Arrow of Gold

Written by: Joseph Conrad

"Perfect success."

"I could hug you."

At any time her lips moved very little but in this instance the
intense whisper of these words seemed to form itself right in my
very heart; not as a conveyed sound but as an imparted emotion
vibrating there with an awful intimacy of delight. And yet it left
my heart heavy.

"Oh, yes, for joy," I said bitterly but very low; "for your
Royalist, Legitimist, joy." Then with that trick of very precise
politeness which I must have caught from Mr. Blunt I added: