Quotation from: The Secret Agent

Written by: Joseph Conrad


He beckoned to a waiter. Ossipon sat rigid, with the abstracted gaze of
mental travail. After the man had gone away with the money he roused
himself, with an air of profound dissatisfaction.


"It's extremely unpleasant for me," he mused. "Karl has been in bed with
bronchitis for a week. There's an even chance that he will never get up
again. Michaelis's luxuriating in the country somewhere. A fashionable
publisher has offered him five hundred pounds for a book. It will be a
ghastly failure. He has lost the habit of consecutive thinking in
prison, you know."

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