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Only Maria's mouth kept closed. Her great blue eyes were closed as well. She looked as if she could have told them all this in a couple of words! "Knocking about on the loose," he explained further, then paused and stared into the upturned faces; "sort of escaped days that have never been torn off calendars or ticked away by clocks unused, unfilled, unlived slipped out of Time, that is "
At the foot of the short flight he turned and looked up at the strong, peaceful form of his friend. "What will you do?" he said. "I shall go back to my big-game," replied Guy Oscard. "I am best at that. But I shall not go to Africa." The life unlived, the deed undone, the tear Unshed.
It was the future which took hold of him then smothered him. He went down before the vision of those unlived days, the grim vision of those relentless, inevitable days, standing there waiting to be lived. It was desolation. The surrender of a strong man who had tried to the uttermost.
It must mean disaster ... indefinable disaster that had somehow engulfed him and had not pointed the way that he had gone. She recalled, now, that she had refused Buff Miles's invitation to ride, but had suffered him to take the children. Then she had set out to walk home. On that walk home she had unlived her plans.
And the glimmering souls passed away, sustained and failing, merged in a moving breath. One soul was lost; a tiny soul: his. It flickered once and went out, forgotten, lost. The end: black, cold, void waste. Consciousness of place came ebbing back to him slowly over a vast tract of time unlit, unfelt, unlived.
Marteen! Pray pardon the undress livery! No word had been received." She took note of the darkened rooms. Only one switch, whose glow she had seen turned on as the servant came to the door, gave light. The place was hollow and unlived in as an outworn shell. "Miss Dorothy?" she said, striving to give her voice a natural tone. The butler h'mmed.
I am sorrowful with the sorrow of ages, and strong with the strength of ages yet unlived. What is thy sorrow to my sorrow, or thy strength to my strength? Listen. "Knowest thou whence I come, or whither I go?
For I regret the unlived life that I was meant for the comfortable level life of little happenings which all my schoolfellows have passed through in a stolid drove. I was equipped to live that life with relish, and that life only; and it was denied me. It was demolished in order that a book or two be made out of its wreckage."
It meant the dawning in Myrtle Hazard of one of her as yet unlived secondary lives. Bathsheba's virgin perceptions had caught a faint early ray of its glimmering twilight. She answered, after a very slight pause, which this explanation has made seem so long, that she had never seen the young gentleman, and that she did not know about Susan's sentiments.
But this is not exactly the sort of thing one finds it easy to confide to a policeman, be he ever so friendly a policeman. Cleggett Old Clegg, the copyreader Clegg, the commonplace C. J. Cleggett, the Brooklynite-this person whom young reporters conceived of as the staid, dry prophet of the dusty Fact was secretly a mighty reservoir of unwritten, unacted, unlived, unspoken romance.
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