Quotation from: The Arrow of Gold

Written by: Joseph Conrad

"I am convinced of it, Madame. I have even heard of your son's
bravery. It's extremely natural in a man who, in his own words,
'lives by his sword.'"

She suddenly departed from her almost inhuman perfection, betrayed
"nerves" like a common mortal, of course very slightly, but in her
it meant more than a blaze of fury from a vessel of inferior clay.
Her admirable little foot, marvellously shod in a black shoe,
tapped the floor irritably. But even in that display there was
something exquisitely delicate. The very anger in her voice was
silvery, as it were, and more like the petulance of a seventeen-
year-old beauty.