Quotation from: The Secret Agent

Written by: Joseph Conrad


The Assistant Commissioner of Police had really some qualifications for
his post. Suddenly his suspicion was awakened. It is but fair to say
that his suspicions of the police methods (unless the police happened to
be a semi-military body organised by himself) was not difficult to
arouse. If it ever slumbered from sheer weariness, it was but lightly;
and his appreciation of Chief Inspector Heat's zeal and ability, moderate
in itself, excluded all notion of moral confidence. "He's up to
something," he exclaimed mentally, and at once became angry. Crossing
over to his desk with headlong strides, he sat down violently. "Here I
am stuck in a litter of paper," he reflected, with unreasonable
resentment, "supposed to hold all the threads in my hands, and yet I can
but hold what is put in my hand, and nothing else. And they can fasten
the other ends of the threads where they please."

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