Francis William Lauderdale Adams

Name: A Child of the Age — Part IV: Chapter I.
Author: Francis William Lauderdale Adams

A Child of the Age — Part IV: Chapter I. (1894)

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“A Child of the Age — Part IV: Chapter I.”, published in 1894, is a work by Francis William Lauderdale Adams. It explores elements such as Rayne, manhood and quiet.

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — Part IV: Chapter I. (1894)

“ You know that, if for no other reason than because you were loved by what I loved best in the world, you are and always must be dear to me: and so let me write myself down as being what, I trust, I always shall be,—Your friend, Rayne Gwatkin. ”

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — Part IV: Chapter I. (1894)

“ I feared so this morning.' What sorrow was in me for her was given in the words here.
'And where have you been all this while?' she said, looking up,—'if I may ask?'
I bowed my head.
'I left Glastonbury last February. I was in London for a little, and then in Paris for a little, and then in London again till now.'
'Perhaps,' he said, 'Mr. Leicester would go with you? You must have a great deal to say to one another after so long and so silent a separation?' I saw, or thought I saw, that she did not desire that I should go with her. Half-hesitation of hers was not enough to entice me. ”

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — Part IV: Chapter I. (1894)

“ And I thought in this wise: that the dreams of boyhood are for boyhood and are sweet, while the sights of manhood are for manhood and are bitter: and, that it is given to many to desire the well-fought fight and the well-done duty and the tender progress to the quiet of the Eternal Fields, but that few, the dwindling sacred few, achieve to it: and that it is very hard to learn this simple lesson, that I, this me, this only real existence that I know in Space and Time and Life, is one of the many. ”

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — Part IV: Chapter I. (1894)

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It was four days after this, a Wednesday as I see, that I awoke at about half-past eight in the morning and found that there was a letter with my cup of tea. After a while I summoned up sufficient energy to pull the letter somehow from the table on to the bed, and then must have fallen off into a dose again; for I remember that the writing of the envelope that must have been just under my half-closed eyes, was wound with some other writing in and out of a fantastic sort of a dream-space from which I suddenly started, with the recognition that the letter was Rayne's. ”

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — Part IV: Chapter I. (1894)

“ Oh, God, God, God, God, I would I had never been born!—Nay, is it not strange that, in an hour of weakness like this, the only thing I cry out to for help is what I have always thought I despised as being itself incarnate weakness—woman! ”

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — Part IV: Chapter I. (1894)

“ I came back from the closed hall-door into the library, and went to the window and stood looking out on the sunny day. A feeling of disgust at work rose in me. I sighed as I took down 'Antigone,' the Greek play I was then reading, and lexicon and translation, and bundled myself into the easy chair. ”

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — Part IV: Chapter I. (1894)

“ He knows what seems to me a great deal about...'
And I folded up the letter and put it into the box, and relocked the box, went back to bed; and lay thinking for another half-hour, when I got up and dressed.
At breakfast I reconsidered the matter:
The news amounted to this: Rayne had married the amusing mondain en villégiature, and was here, in London, for a short time—three weeks or so, before going north to spend the summer at Kirkory, her husband's family seat or home. Where was Mr. Cholmeley? ”

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