Quotation from: The Secret Agent

Written by: Joseph Conrad


For the first time since he took up his appointment the Assistant
Commissioner felt as if he were going to do some real work for his
salary. And that was a pleasurable sensation. "I'll turn him inside out
like an old glove," thought the Assistant Commissioner, with his eyes
resting pensively upon Chief Inspector Heat.


"No, that was not my thought," he began again. "There is no doubt about
you knowing your business--no doubt at all; and that's precisely why I--"
He stopped short, and changing his tone: "What could you bring up against
Michaelis of a definite nature? I mean apart from the fact that the two
men under suspicion--you're certain there were two of them--came last
from a railway station within three miles of the village where Michaelis
is living now."

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