Quotation from: Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard

Written by: Joseph Conrad


"No wind!" he muttered to himself. "Look here, senor--do you know the
nature of my undertaking?"


Dr. Monygham nodded sourly.


"It is as if I were taking up a curse upon me, senor doctor. A man with
a treasure on this coast will have every knife raised against him in
every place upon the shore. You see that, senor doctor? I shall float
along with a spell upon my life till I meet somewhere the north-bound
steamer of the Company, and then indeed they will talk about the Capataz
of the Sulaco Cargadores from one end of America to another."

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