Quotation from: Lord Jim

Written by: Joseph Conrad


'"You mustn't laugh like this, with all these people about," I
remonstrated. "It isn't nice for them, you know."


'He gave no sign of having heard at first, but after a while, with a
stare that, missing me altogether, seemed to probe the heart of some
awful vision, he muttered carelessly--"Oh! they'll think I am drunk."


'And after that you would have thought from his appearance he would
never make a sound again. But--no fear! He could no more stop telling
now than he could have stopped living by the mere exertion of his will.'

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