Quotation from: The Secret Agent

Written by: Joseph Conrad


The Assistant Commissioner, still with his face turned to the window,
expressed his doubt as to these two men having had anything to do with
the outrage. All this theory rested upon the utterances of an old
charwoman who had been nearly knocked down by a man in a hurry. Not a
very substantial authority indeed, unless on the ground of sudden
inspiration, which was hardly tenable.


"Frankly now, could she have been really inspired?" he queried, with
grave irony, keeping his back to the room, as if entranced by the
contemplation of the town's colossal forms half lost in the night. He
did not even look round when he heard the mutter of the word
"Providential" from the principal subordinate of his department, whose
name, printed sometimes in the papers, was familiar to the great public
as that of one of its zealous and hard-working protectors. Chief
Inspector Heat raised his voice a little.

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