Quotation from: The Secret Agent

Written by: Joseph Conrad


She moved a step forward in the darkness. He was terrified at her. He
would not have been surprised if she had suddenly produced another knife
destined for his breast. He certainly would have made no resistance. He
had really not enough fortitude in him just then to tell her to keep
back. But he inquired in a cavernous, strange tone: "Was he asleep?"


"No," she cried, and went on rapidly. "He wasn't. Not he. He had been
telling me that nothing could touch him. After taking the boy away from
under my very eyes to kill him--the loving, innocent, harmless lad. My
own, I tell you. He was lying on the couch quite easy--after killing the
boy--my boy. I would have gone on the streets to get out of his sight.
And he says to me like this: 'Come here,' after telling me I had helped
to kill the boy. You hear, Tom? He says like this: 'Come here,' after
taking my very heart out of me along with the boy to smash in the dirt."

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