Quotation from: The Arrow of Gold

Written by: Joseph Conrad


This is what appears from the pages I have discreetly suppressed--
partly out of regard for the pages themselves. In every, even
terrestrial, mystery there is as it were a sacred core. A
sustained commentary on love is not fit for every eye. A universal
experience is exactly the sort of thing which is most difficult to
appraise justly in a particular instance.


How this particular instance affected Rose, who was the only
companion of the two hermits in their rose-embowered hut of stones,
I regret not to be able to report; but I will venture to say that
for reasons on which I need not enlarge, the girl could not have
been very reassured by what she saw. It seems to me that her
devotion could never be appeased; for the conviction must have been
growing on her that, no matter what happened, Madame could never
have any friends. It may be that Dona Rita had given her a glimpse
of the unavoidable end, and that the girl's tarnished eyes masked a
certain amount of apprehensive, helpless desolation.

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