Quotation from: The Secret Agent

Written by: Joseph Conrad


The voice of Mrs Verloc rose subdued, pleading piteously: "Don't let them
hang me, Tom! Take me out of the country. I'll work for you. I'll
slave for you. I'll love you. I've no one in the world. . . . Who
would look at me if you don't!" She ceased for a moment; then in the
depths of the loneliness made round her by an insignificant thread of
blood trickling off the handle of a knife, she found a dreadful
inspiration to her--who had been the respectable girl of the Belgravian
mansion, the loyal, respectable wife of Mr Verloc. "I won't ask you to
marry me," she breathed out in shame-faced accents.

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