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"Oh yes, and you told me you didn't know  that I was to see for myself. We've said little about it since, even in so long a time." OH YES AND YOU TOLD ME YOU DIDN'T KNOW THAT I WAS TO SEE FOR MYSELF WE'VE SAID LITTLE ABOUT IT SINCE EVEN IN SO LONG A TIME
the little drawing-room to which, year after year, he brought his inevitable topic; in which he had, as he might have said, tasted their intimate community with every sauce, where every object was as familiar to him as the things of his own house and the very carpets were worn with his fitful walk very much as the desks in old counting-houses are worn by the elbows of generations of clerks. The generations of his nervous moods had been at work there, and the place was the written history of his whole middle life. Under the impression of what his friend had just said he knew himself, for some reason, more aware of these things; which made him, after a moment, stop again before her. "Is it possibly that you've grown afraid?" "Afraid?" He thought, as she repeated the word, that his question had made her, a little, change colour; so that, lest he should have touched on a truth, he explained very kindly: "You remember that that was what you asked _me_ long ago--that first day at Weatherend. OM HIS SEAT HAD TURNED ONCE MORE ABOUT THE LITTLE DRAWING ROOM TO WHICH YEAR AFTER YEAR HE BROUGHT HIS INEVITABLE TOPIC IN WHICH HE HAD AS HE MIGHT HAVE SAID TASTED THEIR INTIMATE COMMUNITY WITH EVERY SAUCE WHERE EVERY OBJECT WAS AS FAMILIAR TO HIM AS THE THINGS OF HIS OWN HOUSE AND THE VERY CARPETS WERE WORN WITH HIS FITFUL WALK VERY MUCH AS THE DESKS IN OLD COUNTING HOUSES ARE WORN BY THE ELBOWS OF GENERATIONS OF CLERKS THE GENERATIONS OF HIS NERVOUS MOODS HAD BEEN AT WORK THERE AND THE PLACE WAS THE WRITTEN HISTORY OF HIS WHOLE MIDDLE LIFE UNDER THE IMPRESSION OF WHAT HIS FRIEND HAD JUST SAID HE KNEW HIMSELF FOR SOME REASON MORE AWARE OF THESE THINGS WHICH MADE HIM AFTER A MOMENT STOP AGAIN BEFORE HER IS IT POSSIBLY THAT YOU'VE GROWN AFRAID AFRAID HE THOUGHT AS SHE REPEATED THE WORD THAT HIS QUESTION HAD MADE HER A LITTLE CHANGE COLOR SO THAT LEST HE SHOULD HAVE TOUCHED ON A TRUTH HE EXPLAINED VERY KINDLY YOU REMEMBER THAT WAS WHAT YOU ASKED ME LONG AGO THAT FIRST DAY AT WEATHER END
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