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As for gassing about love when there's no comfort to keep it alive, that's about as foundationless as we, always being supposed to think men our superiors, even the ones a blind idiot could see are inferior." "Are you going to marry him?" "I want to, but what on earth am I to do with 'Dora' Eweword?" "Break his heart to keep Ernest's together?" "Break his heart! It's the style to break, isn't it?
Wait a little longer, and you shall see those scattered mists rallying in the ravines, and floating up towards you, along the winding valleys, till they crouch in quiet masses, iridescent with the morning light, upon the broad breasts of the higher hills, whose leagues of massy undulation will melt back, back into that robe of material light, until they fade away, lost in its lustre, to appear again above in the serene heaven like a wild, bright, impossible dream, foundationless, and inaccessible, their very bases vanishing in the unsubstantial and mocking blue of the deep lake below.
His unbelief was shaken; it was within an ace of falling in pieces to the very foundation; or rather he began to suspect how foundationless it had been.
It was a glorious morning, and as they climbed, the lightening air made their spirits rise with their steps. Great masses of cloud hung beyond the edge of the world, and here and there towered foundationless in the sky huge tumulous heaps of white vapour with gray shadows. The sun was strong, and poured down floods of light, but his heat was deliciously tempered by the mountain atmosphere.
He wondered vaguely whether Falbe's explanation of this namely, that nationally the English were prosperous, comfortable and insouciant was perhaps sound. It seemed that the notion was not wholly foundationless.
Contrast these old houses with the modern suburban abominations, "those thin tottering foundationless shells of splintered wood and imitated stone," "those gloomy rows of formalised minuteness, alike without difference and without fellowship, as solitary as similar," as Ruskin calls them.
The storm comes, the waters rise, the winds howl, the hail and the rain 'sweep away the refuge of lies, and the dwellers in these frail and foundationless houses are hurrying in wild confusion from one peak to another, before the steadily rising tide.
It was not a sense of danger; it arose from no outward and tangible manifestations. But somewhere, and persistently, at the root of his being, he heard that subliminal and submerged voice which could be neither silenced nor understood. He took three groping paces forward, as if to put distance between himself and this foundationless emotion which some part of him seemed struggling to defy.
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