Quotation from: Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard

Written by: Joseph Conrad


He extended his hand grasping the briar-wood pipe, whose bowl was
charred on the edge, and knitted his bushy eyebrows heavily at the
light.


"You have returned," he said, with shaky dignity. "Ah! Very well! I----"


He broke off. Nostromo, leaning back against the table, his arms folded
on his breast, nodded at him slightly.


"You thought I was drowned! No! The best dog of the rich, of the
aristocrats, of these fine men who can only talk and betray the people,
is not dead yet."

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