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Updated: June 10, 2025
But with his return, England and Stoke-Newington sank into the shadowy past their spell weakened, for the time being, by the thought-absorbing, heart-filling scenes of which he had now become a part. The years at the Manor House School were as a dream this was the real thing this was Home. Home ah, the charm of that word and all it implied!
"If you don't get up at once, George," I said softly, "I shall kick you hard." He scrambled to his feet, and then crouched back against the wall eyeing me like a trapped weasel. I indulged myself in a good heart-filling look at him. "So you've been sorry for me, George?" I said. "All these three long weary years that I've been rotting in Dartmoor, you've been really and truly sorry for me?"
It made her laugh to think of his languid reception of her, the moods, the silences, the weeks of just civil acquaintanceship; and then gradually, the snatches of talk and those great black brows of his lifted in a surprise which a tardy politeness would try to mask: and at last, the good, long, brain-filling, heart-filling talks, the break-down of reserves the man's whole mind, its remorses, ambitions, misgivings, poured at her feet ending in the growth of that sweet daily habit of common work side by side, head close to head hand close to hand.
This particular existence was more satisfying to her than any other, more heart-filling and warmly complete.
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