Quotation from: The Secret Agent

Written by: Joseph Conrad


At headquarters the Chief Inspector was admitted at once to the Assistant
Commissioner's private room. He found him, pen in hand, bent over a
great table bestrewn with papers, as if worshipping an enormous double
inkstand of bronze and crystal. Speaking tubes resembling snakes were
tied by the heads to the back of the Assistant Commissioner's wooden arm-
chair, and their gaping mouths seemed ready to bite his elbows. And in
this attitude he raised only his eyes, whose lids were darker than his
face and very much creased. The reports had come in: every anarchist had
been exactly accounted for.

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