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The lemons had enormously thick skins and were only mildly acidulous—sweet
lemons, they were called; and one found them delicious by dipping the slices in
sugar. " Here she began to
blubber loudly for sympathy. ‘But you are idiot. “Do you know why they are estranged?” Lucy asked. “But you do not know,” she whispered, “whether I am a married woman or not. She had come across the
wicked South Seas which were still infested with cannibals; she had seen
drunkenness and called men beachcombers; who was this moment as innocent as
a babe, and in the next uttered some bitter wisdom it had taken a thousand years
of philosophy to evolve. "And now, mark me. Practically it was most of the chief interests
in life that she proposed to settle in this pedestrian meditation. “You mustn’t talk any more,” he said, “but I want you to listen to me just for a
moment. The waterman sheltered his
mouth with his hand while he spoke, or his voice would have been carried away
by the violence of the blast. She wished she had not
stood up. She took the piece of
paper and unfolded it in the safety of her lap. She became more and more alive, not
so much to a system of ideas as to a big diffused impulse toward change, to a
great discontent with and criticism of life as it is lived, to a clamorous confusion
of ideas for reconstruction—reconstruction of the methods of business, of
economic development, of the rules of property, of the status of children, of the
clothing and feeding and teaching of every one; she developed a quite
exaggerated consciousness of a multitude of people going about the swarming
spaces of London with their minds full, their talk and gestures full, their very
clothing charged with the suggestion of the urgency of this pervasive project of
alteration. You were delicious in concert,
by the way.
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