Quotation from: The Arrow of Gold

Written by: Joseph Conrad

I didn't say anything to that ingratiating speech. I had only an
odd thought that she could not have had such a figure, nothing like
it, when she was seventeen and wore snowy muslin dresses on the
family plantation in South Carolina, in pre-abolition days.

"You won't mind, I am sure, if an old woman whose heart is still
young elects to call you by it," she declared.