A Family And a Fortune (2013)
“Maria was the first to speak.
‘We must go on as if nothing had happened. We could not help it. I do not think we could. We might have seen it had to come. But I thought it would not come, with Dudley. Did you think that?’ ‘I thought it,’ said Edgar, hardly parting his lips. He was summoning up his brother’s experience, grasping at its meaning as his brother had lived it. He had taken from him the thing he had asked, taken and held it for himself, and let him move aside to walk alone, but near h...im that he might give his support. The demand was exposed, and he felt that he could not believe in the sight. Maria saw that it was useless to be with him, that each was alone.
By common consent they remained apart that night. When they met in the morning they felt it was a new meeting, that it came after a sudden separation and brought them to a new future. It almost made a fresh bond between them, giving them a common knowledge out of all they knew.
‘Well, this is a sobering morning,’ said a voice, which seemed to be neither Aubrey’s nor Justine’s, but was really the former used in imitation of the latter.MoreLess
‘We must go on as if nothing had happened. We could not help it. I do not think we could. We might have seen it had to come. But I thought it would not come, with Dudley. Did you think that?’ ‘I thought it,’ said Edgar, hardly parting his lips. He was summoning up his brother’s experience, grasping at its meaning as his brother had lived it. He had taken from him the thing he had asked, taken and held it for himself, and let him move aside to walk alone, but near h...im that he might give his support. The demand was exposed, and he felt that he could not believe in the sight. Maria saw that it was useless to be with him, that each was alone.
By common consent they remained apart that night. When they met in the morning they felt it was a new meeting, that it came after a sudden separation and brought them to a new future. It almost made a fresh bond between them, giving them a common knowledge out of all they knew.
‘Well, this is a sobering morning,’ said a voice, which seemed to be neither Aubrey’s nor Justine’s, but was really the former used in imitation of the latter.MoreLess
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