Quotation from: Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard

Written by: Joseph Conrad

She made an almost imperceptible negative movement of her head, still
staring across the street at the Avellanos's house, grey, marked with
decay, and with iron bars like a prison.

"And it would be so easy of attainment," he continued, "this aim which,
whether knowingly or not, I have always had in my heart--ever since the
day when you snubbed me so horribly once in Paris, you remember."