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to sprout after so many years. TO SPROUT AFTER SO MANY YEARS
in breathe on them. It hadn't taken them many minutes, after all, to put down on the table, like the cards of a pack, those that constituted their respective hands; only what came out was that the pack was unfortunately not perfect--that the past, invoked, invited, encouraged, could give them, naturally, no more than it had. It had made them anciently meet--her at twenty, him at twenty-five; but nothing was so strange, they seemed to say to each other, as that, while so occupied, it hadn't done a little more for them. They looked at each other as with the feeling of an occasion missed; the present would have been so much better if the other, in the far distance, in the foreign land, hadn't been so stupidly meagre. There weren't, apparently, all counted, more than a dozen little old things that had succeeded in coming to pass between them; trivialities of youth, simplicities of freshness, stupidities of ignorance, small possible germs, but too deeply buried--too deeply (didn't it seem?) A MEMORY OR TWO MORE WOULDN'T AGREE AGAIN BREATHE ON THEM IT HADN'T TAKEN THEM MANY MINUTES AFTER ALL TO PUT DOWN ON THE TABLE LIKE THE CARDS OF A PACK THOSE THAT CONSTITUTED THEIR RESPECTIVE HANDS ONLY WHAT CAME OUT WAS THAT THE PACK WAS UNFORTUNATELY NOT PERFECT THAT THE PAST INVOKED INVITED ENCOURAGED COULD GIVE THEM NATURALLY NO MORE THAN IT HAD IT HAD MADE THEM ANCIENTLY MEET HER AT TWENTY HIM AT TWENTY FIVE BUT NOTHING WAS SO STRANGE THEY SEEMED TO SAY TO EACH OTHER AS THAT WHILE SO OCCUPIED IT HADN'T DONE A LITTLE MORE FOR THEM THEY LOOKED AT EACH OTHER AS WITH THE FEELING OF AN OCCASION MISSED THE PRESENT WOULD HAVE BEEN SO MUCH BETTER IF THE OTHER IN THE FAR DISTANCE IN THE FOREIGN LAND HADN'T BEEN SO STUPIDLY MEAGER THERE WEREN'T APPARENTLY ALL COUNTED MORE THAN A DOZEN LITTLE OLD THINGS THAT HAD SUCCEEDED IN COMING TO PASS BETWEEN THEM TRIVIALITIES OF YOUTH SIMPLICITIES OF FRESHNESS STUPIDITIES OF IGNORANCE SMALL POSSIBLE GERMS BUT TWO DEEPLY BURIED TOO DEEPLY DIDN'T IT SEEM
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