Quotation from: Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard

Written by: Joseph Conrad


Decoud lay on the silver boxes panting. All his active sensations and
feelings from as far back as he could remember seemed to him the maddest
of dreams. Even his passionate devotion to Antonia into which he had
worked himself up out of the depths of his scepticism had lost all
appearance of reality. For a moment he was the prey of an extremely
languid but not unpleasant indifference.


"I am sure they didn't mean you to take such a desperate view of this
affair," he said.

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