Quotation from: Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard

Written by: Joseph Conrad


"What was it, then? A joke?" snarled the man, who on the pay-sheets of
the O.S.N. Company's establishment in Sulaco was described as "Foreman
of the wharf" against the figure of his wages. "Was it for a joke they
woke me up from my sleep after two days of street fighting to make me
stake my life upon a bad card? Everybody knows, too, that I am not a
lucky gambler."


"Yes, everybody knows of your good luck with women, Capataz," Decoud
propitiated his companion in a weary drawl.

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