Quotation from: The Secret Agent

Written by: Joseph Conrad


There must have been something imperfect in Mrs Verloc's sentiment of
regained freedom. Instead of taking the way of the door she leaned back,
with her shoulders against the tablet of the mantelpiece, as a wayfarer
rests against a fence. A tinge of wildness in her aspect was derived
from the black veil hanging like a rag against her cheek, and from the
fixity of her black gaze where the light of the room was absorbed and
lost without the trace of a single gleam. This woman, capable of a
bargain the mere suspicion of which would have been infinitely shocking
to Mr Verloc's idea of love, remained irresolute, as if scrupulously
aware of something wanting on her part for the formal closing of the
transaction.

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