The Secret Agent: Drama in Four Acts (Paperbound)Classic Books Company, 1921 - 69 pages |
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affair afraid agent provocateur anarchism anarchist answered asked Assistant Commissioner breast Brett Street chair Charing Cross Station Chief Inspector Heat Comrade Ossipon counter course dark door Embassy eyes face feeling fellow felt gave gaze glance gone Greenwich Park hand head heard heart husband idea indignation Karl Yundt kitchen lady leaned light lips looked matter Maze Hill mean mental Michaelis mind moral moved murder murmured mystery ness never once outrage overcoat parlour paused perfectly perhaps person pocket police poor Stevie Professor raised revolutionary round secret agent seemed shoulders side silence Silenus Sir Ethelred slowly smile social sofa sort sound stare Stevie's stood suddenly talk tell thing thought tion tone Toodles took turned veil Verloc Verloc's mother Vladimir voice walked whisper wife window Winnie words
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Page xii - Then the vision of an enormous town presented itself, of a monstrous town more populous than some continents and in its man-made might as if indifferent to heaven's frowns and smiles; a cruel devourer of the world's light. There was room enough there to place any story, depth enough for any passion, variety enough there for any setting, darkness enough to bury five millions of lives.
Page 12 - ... under Mr Verloc's feet had an old-gold tinge in that diffused light, in which neither wall, nor tree, nor beast, nor man cast a shadow. Mr Verloc was going westward through a town without shadows in an atmosphere of powdered old gold. There were red, coppery gleams on the roofs of houses, on the corners of walls, on the panels of carriages, on the very coats of the horses, and on the broad back of Mr Verloc's overcoat, where they produced a dull effect of rustiness. But Mr Verloc was not in the...