Quotation from: Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard

Written by: Joseph Conrad


Linda helped him into the chair, and, bending low, hissed into his ear--


"You have killed Gian' Battista."


The old man smiled under his thick moustache. Women had strange fancies.


"Where is the child?" he asked, surprised at the penetrating chilliness
of the air and the unwonted dimness of the lamp by which he used to sit
up half the night with the open Bible before him.


Linda hesitated a moment, then averted her eyes.

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