Quotation from: A Set of Six

Written by: Joseph Conrad


A few days later General D'Hubert was saying to his sister, after the
first greetings had been got over: "Ah, my dear Leonie! it seemed to me
I couldn't get away from Paris quick enough."


"Effect of love," she suggested, with a malicious smile.


"And horror," added General D'Hubert, with profound seriousness. "I have
nearly died there of . . . of nausea."


His face was contracted with disgust. And as his sister looked at him
attentively he continued, "I have had to see Fouche. I have had an
audience. I have been in his cabinet. There remains with one, who had
the misfortune to breathe the air of the same room with that man, a
sense of diminished dignity, an uneasy feeling of being not so clean,
after all, as one hoped one was. . . . But you can't understand."

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