[Chance by Joseph Conrad]@TWC D-Link bookChance CHAPTER FOUR--ANTHONY AND FLORA 24/79
You are perfectly honest.
You might have, but I dare say you are right.
At any rate you have never said anything to me which you didn't mean." "Never," she whispered after a pause. He seemed distracted, choking with an emotion she could not understand because it resembled embarrassment, a state of mind inconceivable in that man. She wondered what it was she had said; remembering that in very truth she had hardly spoken to him except when giving him the bare outline of her story which he seemed to have hardly had the patience to hear, waving it perpetually aside with exclamations of horror and anger, with fiercely sombre mutters "Enough! Enough!" and with alarming starts from a forced stillness, as though he meant to rush out at once and take vengeance on somebody.
She was saying to herself that he caught her words in the air, never letting her finish her thought.
Honest.
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