Quotation from: The Arrow of Gold

Written by: Joseph Conrad


I also often lunched with Dona Rita without invitation. But that
was now unthinkable. What had I to do with a woman who allowed
somebody else to make her cry and then with an amazing lack of good
feeling did her offensive weeping on my shoulder? Obviously I
could have nothing to do with her. My five minutes' meditation in
the middle of the bedroom came to an end without even a sigh. The
dead don't sigh, and for all practical purposes I was that, except
for the final consummation, the growing cold, the rigor mortis--
that blessed state! With measured steps I crossed the landing to
my sitting-room.

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