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Updated: May 20, 2025
"What I think of America. It's the same inevitable question. I think everything of it. It's the stepping-off place. I've come here at last, because it matters most." "That's what we all want to believe," said Gidding. "That's what we want you to tell us." He reflected. "It's immense, isn't it, perfectly immense? But I am afraid at times we're too disposed to forget just what it's all about.
Tad made no reply, but, turning so that he faced them, let himself carefully over the ledge, his right hand holding the torch, his left firmly gripping the ledge so that there might be no jolt on the line by a too sudden stepping-off. "Good!" approved Lige encouragingly, beginning to let the rawhide slip slowly around the trunk of the tree.
It was not the house; it was the significance of all connoted by the house. The rooms had been a stepping-off place to independence larger and to triumphs new; the house was a stepping-off place to independence, to triumphs, to battle of life and to joy of life, lifted upon a plane high above her old world as the stars, as bright and keen as they. But for Harry it was a stepping-in place.
For the second time since that night on the Irrawaddy, Elsa recorded a disagreeable sensation. It proved to be transitory, but at the time it served to establish a stronger doubt in regard to her independence, so justifiable in her own eyes. It might be insidiously leading her too far away from the stepping-off place. The unspoken words in those hateful eyes!
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