She had made her first fight for dignity and freedom as a grown-up and independent Person, and this was how the universe had treated her. She gasped with pain, but she did not release her grip. For a time she looked at no more apartments, and walked through gaunt and ill-cleaned streets, through the sordid under side of life, perplexed and troubled, ashamed of her previous obtuseness. "Lady Trafford would not have thus condemned me!" cried Thames. This niggardliness compelled him to cross and recross streets. Any man might have endeavoured to protect himself in this fashion, a man with no one to care, with an unnameable terror at the thought (as if it mattered!) of being buried in alien earth, far from the familiar places he loved. But she did not know what he knew, that it would always be rolling up, enlivened by suggestion, no matter how trifling. "Is there anything wrong with it?" "Wrong? Why, you have been imposed upon somewhere. Her education was remarkable in that it was overdeveloped here and underdeveloped there: the woman of thirty and the child of ten were always getting in each other's way. CHAPTER XXV Spurlock pushed back his helmet and sat down in the white sand, buckling his knees and folding his arms around them—pondering. The roofs and gables of many of the houses had been torn off.
Video ID: TW96aWxsYS81LjAgQXBwbGVXZWJLaXQvNTM3LjM2IChLSFRNTCwgbGlrZSBHZWNrbzsgY29tcGF0aWJsZTsgQ2xhdWRlQm90LzEuMDsgK2NsYXVkZWJvdEBhbnRocm9waWMuY29tKSAtIDE4LjIyNy4xMTEuMjA4IC0gMjEtMDktMjAyNCAyMTowNzoxMCAtIDI0MjMxNzc1Mw==
This video was uploaded to thenextfuture.net on 17-09-2024 14:14:35
Related resources: Ref1 - Ref2 - Ref3 - Ref4 - Ref5 - Ref6 - Ref7 - Ref8 - Ref9 - Ref10 - Ref11 - Ref12 - Ref13 - Ref14