Quotation from: Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard

Written by: Joseph Conrad


"My sister is only waiting to embrace you. My father is transported with
joy. I won't say anything of my mother! Our mothers were like sisters.
There is the mail-boat for the south next week--let us go. That Moraga
is a fool! A man like Montero is bribed. It's the practice of the
country. It's tradition--it's politics. Read 'Fifty Years of Misrule.'"


"Leave poor papa alone, Don Martin. He believes--"


"I have the greatest tenderness for your father," he began, hurriedly.
"But I love you, Antonia! And Moraga has miserably mismanaged this
business. Perhaps your father did, too; I don't know. Montero was
bribeable. Why, I suppose he only wanted his share of this famous loan
for national development. Why didn't the stupid Sta. Marta people give
him a mission to Europe, or something? He would have taken five years'
salary in advance, and gone on loafing in Paris, this stupid, ferocious
Indio!"

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