Quotation from: The Secret Agent

Written by: Joseph Conrad


"Trying to drive out a cold," he explained to the barmaid, with a
friendly nod and a grimacing smile. Then he came out, bringing out from
that festive interlude the face of a man who had drunk at the very
Fountain of Sorrow. He raised his eyes to the clock. It was time. He
waited.


Punctual, Mrs Verloc came out, with her veil down, and all black--black
as commonplace death itself, crowned with a few cheap and pale flowers.
She passed close to a little group of men who were laughing, but whose
laughter could have been struck dead by a single word. Her walk was
indolent, but her back was straight, and Comrade Ossipon looked after it
in terror before making a start himself.

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