Quotation from: The Secret Agent

Written by: Joseph Conrad


His generosity was not infinite, because he was a human being--and not a
monster, as Mrs Verloc believed him to be. He paused, and a snarl
lifting his moustaches above a gleam of white teeth gave him the
expression of a reflective beast, not very dangerous--a slow beast with a
sleek head, gloomier than a seal, and with a husky voice.


"And when it comes to that, it's as much your doing as mine. That's so.
You may glare as much as you like. I know what you can do in that way.
Strike me dead if I ever would have thought of the lad for that purpose.
It was you who kept on shoving him in my way when I was half distracted
with the worry of keeping the lot of us out of trouble. What the devil
made you? One would think you were doing it on purpose. And I am damned
if I know that you didn't. There's no saying how much of what's going on
you have got hold of on the sly with your infernal don't-care-a-damn way
of looking nowhere in particular, and saying nothing at all. . . . "

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