<link href="css/hmh.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <meta content="urn:uuid:74220650-7367-4102-8855-6b885a0677bf" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body> <p class="timebreak"> <br/></p> <p class="timebreak"> <br/></p> <p class="timebreak"> <br/></p> <p class="timebreak"> <br/></p> <blockquote><p class="center"><a id="p2"/> I feel very shy and blushing at being let in for that thing at my venerable age.</p></blockquote> <p class="timebreak"> <br/></p> <blockquote><p class="center"><span style="font-size: smaller">—JOSEPH CONRAD AT FIFTY-THREE,</span><br/> in a letter to a friend, on finding out that his wife, Jessie, was pregnant</p></blockquote> </body> </html>