Quotation from: The Secret Agent

Written by: Joseph Conrad


"Only a couple of minutes later and you'd have made me blunder against
the fellow poking about here with his damned dark lantern."


The widow of Mr Verloc, motionless in the middle of the shop, said
insistently:


"Go in and put that light out, Tom. It will drive me crazy."


She saw vaguely his vehement gesture of refusal. Nothing in the world
would have induced Ossipon to go into the parlour. He was not
superstitious, but there was too much blood on the floor; a beastly pool
of it all round the hat. He judged he had been already far too near that
corpse for his peace of mind--for the safety of his neck, perhaps!

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