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front;   their   heads   together;   were   already   reckoning   up   the   weeks   to   the 

holidays。      Home   at   last;   Harold   suggested   one   or   two   occupations   of   a 

spicy and contraband flavour; but though we did our manful best there was 

no knocking any interest out of them。                Then I suggested others; with the 

same   want   of   success。      Finally   we   found   ourselves   sitting   silent   on   an 

upturned   wheelbarrow;   our  chins   on   our  fists;   staring haggardly  into   the 

raw   new   conditions   of   our   changed   life;   the   ruins   of   a   past   behind   our 

backs。 

     And   all   the   while   Selina   and   Charlotte   were   busy   stuffing   Edward's 

rabbits with unwonted forage; bilious and green; polishing up the cage of 

his mice till   the occupants   raved and   swore like  householders in   spring… 

time;   and   collecting   materials   for   new   bows   and   arrows;   whips;   boats; 

guns; and four… in…hand harness; against the return of Ulysses。                     Little did 

they dream that the hero; once back from Troy and all its onsets; would 

scornfully condemn their clumsy but laborious armoury as rot and humbug 

and   only   fit   for   kids!   This;    with   many   another   like      awakening;      was 

mercifully  hidden   from   them。          Could   the   veil   have   been   lifted;   and   the 

girls   permitted   to   see   Edward   as   he   would   appear   a   short   three   months 

hence; ragged of attire and lawless of tongue; a scorner of tradition and an 

adept in strange new physical tortures; one who would in the same half… 

hour   dismember   a   doll   and   shatter   a   hallowed   belief;in   fine;   a   sort   of 

swaggering Captain;  fresh   from the   Spanish   Main;could they  have   had 

the least hint of this; well; then perhaps。             But which of us is of mental 

fibre to stand the test of a glimpse into futurity?                Let us only hope that; 

even     with    certain   disillusionment       ahead;    the   girls   would     have    acted 

precisely as they did。 

     And perhaps we have reason to be very grateful that; both as children 

and   long   afterwards;   we   are   never   allowed   to   guess   how   the   absorbing 

pursuit of the moment will appear; not only to others; but to ourselves; a 

very short time hence。          So we pass; with a gusto and a heartiness that to 



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an    onlooker    would    seem    almost    pathetic;   from    one   droll  devotion     to 

another misshapen passion; and who shall care to play Rhadamanthus; to 

appraise the   record;   and to   decide   how   much   of   it   is   solid   achievement; 

and how much the merest child's play? 



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