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Updated: May 31, 2025
She threw a warm-hearted glance at her husband, valuing his kindly qualities the more because they two had just come from a tea-party, at a villa where the alternative to bridge had been telling the whole truth about people behind their backs, and digging up Pasts by the roots, as children unearth plants to see if they have grown. Luckily St.
We cannot alter, we cannot benefit, we cannot serve the past, because it is not and will not be. Our besetting tendency as individuals is to live for our own pasts, more especially as we grow old; to become retrospective, to cease to look forward, even to dedicate what remains to us of life to the service of what is not at all. In this respect, as in so many others, we are less wise than children.
Kedzie never feared that it might have a scarlet-letter significance. She forgot that she was anything but a newborn, full-fledged angel without a past only a future with the sky for its limit. Alas! we always have our pasts. Even the unborn babe has already centuries of a past. It was Ferriday who brought Kedzie home to hers. "What about dinner to-night, my dear?
"Ah!" he thought to himself with a gesture of vexation, "there are some pasts very different from that door, they are always wide open to the present." Then, after a moment's silence, he added, to cover his retreat, "Augusta, I wanted to ask you what hour Madame de l'Estorade receives. I ought to call upon her to-morrow, after what happened here to-night."
Again Barbara gave him that imperceptible and flattering touch. "Well, this is all very mysterious. I shall find out for myself. You know her, my dear. You must take me to see her." "Dear Granny! If people hadn't pasts, they wouldn't have futures." Lady Casterley let her little claw-like hand descend on her grand-daughter's thigh.
There were, too, educated failures from the East and people who had blundered. But all alike to-night, irrespective of pasts or presents or futures, were bent upon enjoying themselves to their capacities. Callous-handed ranchers and their faded wives promenaded arm in arm. Sheep-herders and cow-punchers passed in the figures of the dance eyeing each other in mutual antipathy.
"I see you're 'on. Now to make a long story short you and I can get what we want. We can help each other. You were better born than I am you've had a better training in manners and dress and all the classy sort of things. I've got the money and brains enough to learn with and I can help you in various ways. So I propose that we go up together." "We've got pasts," said Susan.
There was no doll on which she had not bestowed a history, and by dint of her insistence their pasts clung to them with all the reality of a fate not by any means to be lived down.
We want to know everything you can get. Then let us know." Thane, of course, had been prepared for this sort of thing. He'd spent time in Medico-Synthesis after every major job to immunize him against interrogation. He'd had three separate, integrated pasts built up, all quite fictional, which could be used during interrogation.
He looks more like the moon than like his own self, white and heatless and lightless, as if it were not he at all from whom all this transparency and visibility proceeded. I have lived in southern countries, and I have travelled rather far for a single lifetime. Like an epic stretch my memories into dim and ever receding pasts. I have drunk full and deep from the cup of creation.
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