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The expression of Theresa's round little face, still puffy and blotched from her last night's weeping, held a world of reproachful remindings. "Ah! no," the other cried conscience-stricken "no, of course not. How thoughtless of me to ask you. And" another mental skippit "and that you should be forbidden the sick-room too, not permitted to nurse Damaris! My poor friend, indeed I do feel for you.
It sort of pulled at me with remindings of you ages and ages ago, in the gardens of the club at Bhutpur when you brought me a present a darling little green jade elephant in a sandalwood box, as a birthday gift from Henrietta. Later there was a terrible tragedy. An odious little boy broke my elephant, on purpose, and broke my heart along with it."
Not a day passed without Glafira reminding her of her former position, and praising her for not forgetting herself. Malania Sergievna would willingly have acquiesced in these remindings and praisings, however bitter they might be but her child had been taken away from her. This drove her to despair. Glafira undertook the task. The child passed entirely into her keeping.
However great his powers, everything that he can do without the aid of incessant remindings from other thinkers, is merely provisional, and will require a thorough revision. He ought to be aware of this, and accept it with his eyes open, regarding himself as a pioneer, not a constructor.
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