a something of loose ends, words, looks, there was no retrieving
a something of trouble and unease as it were
black scratches on rough plaster ₁
such a lot of loose ends ₂
I could extract a something, of, at least ₃
in new series of invention. Yet a something of consistency ₄
and a something of interest ₅
that’s the mystery. A few pence wrong in our accounts
seemed to unfold to me a something of the purpose and aim of life,
of which I had been till then ignorant ₆
a something of a string-halt in the bargain, I need hardly say ₇
seems to mount up to quite a lot of money in twenty years.
Or was it not rather that a something of which they were both conscious,
and that had lain concealed;
as an apparently dead dry stick in Eastern lands ₈
in quo etiam erat aliquis quaestus; in which lay a something of gain ₉
Compound interest, whatever that may be ₁₀
and a something of self in all their speculations ₁₁
She did not know. ₁₂
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- “She did not know. There seemed to be no clearness or simplicity in any human emotion, and life, which ought to have been noble, was cluttered with mistakes, words, looks, there was no retrieving. But, she thought, they might with patience, with care and courage, be overlaid by something better. But had she, did she want to exercise the patience and care and courage? Again, she did not know and her musings were interrupted by an imperative ring and knock.”
“She opened the door to a telegraph boy.”
— E. H. Young, Celia (1937) : 333
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