Slightly Tempted
“Whenever he had thought of coming, he supposed he had thought of returning to everything and everyone exactly as he had left them. He had thought of returning to himself as he had been.But everything had changed, himself most of all.He resented it. He deeply resented it. But after a few days he realized that he could not simply return to the Continent and continue with the life of wandering dissipation that he had lived for the past number of years. Because he had come home, he could not go back. He was a man caught in limbo, belonging nowhere and to no one.Not that he had any tangible reason to complain. His mother in particular doted on him.He asked her one morning at breakfast about his absent neighbors. Several families were away in London for the Season. Indeed, Gervase had only just escaped coming home to an empty house. His mother and Henrietta had been planning to leave for London themselves within a few days, to do some shopping and to attend the theater and perhaps a few sel...ectton entertainments.His mother prattled on with stories about the neighbors, filling him in on much that he had missed in his years away.MoreLess
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