Quotation from: The Secret Agent

Written by: Joseph Conrad


"Ten minutes after seeing the evening paper," explained Ossipon with
ardour, "I met a fellow whom you may have seen once or twice at the shop
perhaps, and I had a talk with him which left no doubt whatever in my
mind. Then I started for here, wondering whether you--I've been fond of
you beyond words ever since I set eyes on your face," he cried, as if
unable to command his feelings.


Comrade Ossipon assumed correctly that no woman was capable of wholly
disbelieving such a statement. But he did not know that Mrs Verloc
accepted it with all the fierceness the instinct of self-preservation
puts into the grip of a drowning person. To the widow of Mr Verloc the
robust anarchist was like a radiant messenger of life.

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