Quotation from: The Arrow of Gold

Written by: Joseph Conrad


At last Therese put a dish of fruit on the table, a small
collection of oranges, raisins, and nuts. No doubt she had bought
that lot very cheap and it did not look at all inviting. Captain
Blunt jumped up. "My mother can't stand tobacco smoke. Will you
keep her company, mon cher, while I take a turn with a cigar in
that ridiculous garden. The brougham from the hotel will be here
very soon."


He left us in the white flash of an apologetic grin. Almost
directly he reappeared, visible from head to foot through the glass
side of the studio, pacing up and down the central path of that
"ridiculous" garden: for its elegance and its air of good breeding
the most remarkable figure that I have ever seen before or since.
He had changed his coat. Madame Blunt mere lowered the long-
handled glasses through which she had been contemplating him with
an appraising, absorbed expression which had nothing maternal in
it. But what she said to me was:

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