Youthful ambitions

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“Perhaps at midnight, when all boundaries are lost, the country reverts to its ancient shape, as the Romans saw it, lying cloudy, when they landed, and the hills had no names and rivers wound they knew not where—such was [Lucrezia’s] darkness.”

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“[Peter] had been a Socialist, in some sense a failure—true. Still the future of civilisation lies, he thought, in the hands of young men like that; of young men such as he was, thirty years ago; with their love of abstract principles.”

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“Down, down [Peter] sank into the plumes and feathers of sleep, sank, and was muffled over.”

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“The feet of those people busy about their activities, hands putting stone to stone, minds eternally occupied not with trivial chatterings...but with thoughts of ships, of business, of law, of administration.”

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“As a child suddenly stretches its arms; it was just that, perhaps, a sigh, a stretch of the arms, an impulse, a revelation, which has its effects for ever, and then down again it went to the sandy floor. [Elizabeth] must go home.”

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“But [Sally’s] voice was wrung of its old ravishing richness; her eyes not aglow as they used to be.”

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