A SENTENCE BY JOSEPH CONRAD

March 9, 2013

It was not actually raining, but each gas lamp had a rusty little halo of mist.

That’s from Chapter 12 of The Secret Agent. I should have said CHAPTER TWELVE!! Why? There are 13 chapters in The Secret Agent. All of them save one are chapters. That one is a CHAPTER!! And that one is Chapter 12.

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