Quotation from: The Secret Agent

Written by: Joseph Conrad

"You have a devilish way of holding your tongue sometimes," he began
again, without raising his voice. "Enough to make some men go mad. It's
lucky for you that I am not so easily put out as some of them would be by
your deaf-and-dumb sulks. I am fond of you. But don't you go too far.
This isn't the time for it. We ought to be thinking of what we've got to
do. And I can't let you go out to-night, galloping off to your mother
with some crazy tale or other about me. I won't have it. Don't you make
any mistake about it: if you will have it that I killed the boy, then
you've killed him as much as I."