Quotation from: The Arrow of Gold

Written by: Joseph Conrad


I accepted the invitation with a worldly grin and a perfectly just
intonation, because I really didn't care what I did. I only
wondered vaguely why that fellow required all the air in the room
for himself. There did not seem enough left to go down my throat.
I didn't say that I would come with pleasure or that I would be
delighted, but I said that I would come. He seemed to forget his
tongue in his head, put his hands in his pockets and moved about
vaguely. "I am a little nervous this morning," he said in French,
stopping short and looking me straight in the eyes. His own were
deep sunk, dark, fatal. I asked with some malice, that no one
could have detected in my intonation, "How's that sleeplessness?"

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