Quotation from: The Arrow of Gold

Written by: Joseph Conrad


"I suppose our Rita does tell people awful lies about her poor
sister." She sighed deeply (she had several kinds of sighs and
this was the hopeless kind) and added reflectively, "Sin on sin,
wickedness on wickedness! And the longer she lives the worse it
will be. It would be better for our Rita to be dead."


I told "Mademoiselle Therese" that it was really impossible to tell
whether she was more stupid or atrocious; but I wasn't really very
much shocked. These outbursts did not signify anything in Therese.
One got used to them. They were merely the expression of her
rapacity and her righteousness; so that our conversation ended by
my asking her whether she had any dinner ready for me that evening.

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