Joseph Conrad

“ Wang had some knowledge of the more superficial rites and ceremonies of white men's existence, otherwise so enigmatically remote to his mind, and containing unexpected possibilities of good and evil, which had to be watched for with prudence and care. ”

“ She stood still in the dusk, in which her dazzled eyes could scarcely make out the forms of objects, and sighed a sigh of relief. The impression of the sunlight, of sea and sky, remained with her like a memory of a painful trial gone through--done with at last! ”

“ Wang had marched off towards the wharf.
"He's like those waiters in that place," she said. That place was Schomberg's hotel.
"One Chinaman looks very much like another," Heyst remarked. "We shall find it useful to have him here. This is the house."
They faced, at some distance, the six shallow steps leading up to the veranda. The girl had abandoned Heyst's arm. ”