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"You came to ask a favour then of Claridge Pasha; your life-work to do under him. I remember your words: 'I can aid thee in thy great task. Thou wouldst remake our Egypt, and my heart is with you.
But thenceforward, just as Elise Delaunay had stood to him in the beginning for French art and life, and that ferment in himself which answered to them, so now in her place stood Regnault with those stern words upon his young and dying lips 'We have lost many men we must remake them better!
It seemed to me that it would be so easy and natural for me to tear myself away from my past and to remake it to forget all that had been, and to begin my life, with all its relations, anew that the past never troubled me, never clung to me at all. I even found a certain pleasure in detesting the past, and in seeing it in a darker light than the true one.
As well attempt to catch up the water which first rushed through the sluice-gates, opened an hour before you reached the dam. How impossible to remake a reputation once broken. Before the priceless Venetian goblet fell from the table on to the flagged floor, one hand put forth in time might have hindered its fall.
She was terribly afraid of scaring him off. It had occurred to her more than once that his bonds held him far more lightly than she was held by hers. And the prospect of marriage was now an absolute necessity if she was to endure her memories. Marriage alone could hallow and remake Joanna Godden.
White had bought one of the aprons; she said she hadn't seen the pattern before; a stranger had taken another; and Miss Sargent had called and wanted to know how much it would cost to remake her blue dress. 'Oh, I know; she wants me to reline the skirt and put new trimming on the bodice for seven and sixpence; we can do without her custom. What then? 'And then ah! I was forgetting Mrs.
'I will reclaim it, she had said, smiling, 'the first time you make me weep! It was all that was brought back to her all except a scrawled paper found in his pocket, containing some hurried and almost illegible words, written perhaps beside his outpost fire. 'We have lost many men we must remake them better stronger. The lesson should profit us. No more lingering amid facile pleasures!
This was something springing full-born out of nothing! a force which, for the first time in his life, made him complaisant to the natural weaknesses of man! a dream and yet a reality strong enough to blot out the past, remake the present, change the aspect of all his hopes, and outline a new fate. He did not know himself.
One fine evening, when the nuns were gathered at vespers, but as it happened not in the chapel, because since the tale of the hauntings they shunned the place after high noon, Cicely, whose strength was returning to her, asked Emlyn to change her garments and remake her bed.
Or is it the birth of a new race? For freedom is not fruitless, but prolific of higher things. Being the most sacred aspect of woman's freedom, voluntary motherhood is motherhood in its highest and holiest form. It is motherhood unchained motherhood ready to obey its own urge to remake the world. Voluntary motherhood implies a new morality a vigorous, constructive, liberated morality.
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