Quotation from: The Arrow of Gold

Written by: Joseph Conrad

"No change of any sort?" he insisted, looking very sombre and
speaking gloomily from under his black moustaches in the dim glow
of the alabaster lamp hanging above his head. He peered at me in
an extraordinary manner as if he wanted to make sure that I had all
my limbs about me. I asked him to call for my bag at the other
house, on his way to the harbour, and he departed reassured, not,
however, without remarking ironically that ever since she saw that
American cavalier Madame Leonore was not easy in her mind about me.