Quotation from: The Arrow of Gold

Written by: Joseph Conrad


We sat like two venturesome children in an illustration to a tale,
scared by their adventure. But not for long. As I instinctively,
yet timidly, sought for her other hand I felt a tear strike the
back of mine, big and heavy as if fallen from a great height. It
was too much for me. I must have given a nervous start. At once I
heard a murmur: "You had better go away now."


I withdrew myself gently from under the light weight of her head,
from this unspeakable bliss and inconceivable misery, and had the
absurd impression of leaving her suspended in the air. And I moved
away on tiptoe.

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