Quotation from: The Secret Agent

Written by: Joseph Conrad


"Look here, Tom! I was a young girl. I was done up. I was tired. I
had two people depending on what I could do, and it did seem as if I
couldn't do any more. Two people--mother and the boy. He was much more
mine than mother's. I sat up nights and nights with him on my lap, all
alone upstairs, when I wasn't more than eight years old myself. And
then--He was mine, I tell you. . . . You can't understand that. No man
can understand it. What was I to do? There was a young fellow--"

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