Quotation from: The Secret Agent

Written by: Joseph Conrad


"Don't you know what the police are for, Stevie? They are there so that
them as have nothing shouldn't take anything away from them who have."


She avoided using the verb "to steal," because it always made her brother
uncomfortable. For Stevie was delicately honest. Certain simple
principles had been instilled into him so anxiously (on account of his
"queerness") that the mere names of certain transgressions filled him
with horror. He had been always easily impressed by speeches. He was
impressed and startled now, and his intelligence was very alert.

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