Quotation from: The Secret Agent

Written by: Joseph Conrad


On that evening on which it may be said that Mrs Verloc's mother having
parted for good from her children had also departed this life, Winnie
Verloc did not investigate her brother's psychology. The poor boy was
excited, of course. After once more assuring the old woman on the
threshold that she would know how to guard against the risk of Stevie
losing himself for very long on his pilgrimages of filial piety, she took
her brother's arm to walk away. Stevie did not even mutter to himself,
but with the special sense of sisterly devotion developed in her earliest
infancy, she felt that the boy was very much excited indeed. Holding
tight to his arm, under the appearance of leaning on it, she thought of
some words suitable to the occasion.

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