Quotation from: The Secret Agent

Written by: Joseph Conrad


Mrs Verloc, his only sister, guardian, and protector, could not pretend
to such depths of insight. Moreover, she had not experienced the magic
of the cabman's eloquence. She was in the dark as to the inwardness of
the word "Shame." And she said placidly:


"Come along, Stevie. You can't help that."


The docile Stevie went along; but now he went along without pride,
shamblingly, and muttering half words, and even words that would have
been whole if they had not been made up of halves that did not belong to
each other. It was as though he had been trying to fit all the words he
could remember to his sentiments in order to get some sort of
corresponding idea. And, as a matter of fact, he got it at last. He
hung back to utter it at once.

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