Quotation from: The Secret Agent

Written by: Joseph Conrad


Each step cost her an effort of will which seemed the last possible. Mrs
Verloc had dragged herself past the red glow of the eating-house window.
"To the bridge--and over I go," she repeated to herself with fierce
obstinacy. She put out her hand just in time to steady herself against a
lamp-post. "I'll never get there before morning," she thought. The fear
of death paralysed her efforts to escape the gallows. It seemed to her
she had been staggering in that street for hours. "I'll never get
there," she thought. "They'll find me knocking about the streets. It's
too far." She held on, panting under her black veil.

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