Here was an appalling fact: all her previous loneliness had been
trifling beside that which now encompassed her and would for years to come. “It means that I have had enough of this slavery,” she declared. "He would return my letters unopened or destroy them. She fell with a
plop onto her rear end in the mud and sat dumbly like a
statue, water eddying around her. Maggot had disappeared. You've been a great
help these five days; for he had to have attendance constantly, and neither Wu
nor I could have given that. "
"As you please," replied Jonathan, sternly. “I won’t go home,” she said; “I won’t!” and she evaded the clutch of the
fatherly policeman and tried to thrust herself past him in the direction of that big
portal. ”
She was silent for a time, with her nose on the pillow, and that brought her to:
“What’s the good of pretending?
“I love him,” she said aloud to the dim forms of her room, and repeated it, and
went on to imagine herself doing acts of tragically dog-like devotion to the
biologist, who, for the purposes of the drama, remained entirely unconscious of
and indifferent to her proceedings. He was
always forgetting that his tummy was fifty-four years old. With what airs we human atoms invest ourselves! What ridiculous fancies of our
importance! We believe we have destinies, when we have only destinations: that
we are something immortal, when each of us is in truth only the repository of a
dream.
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