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Life¡¯s what you
see in people¡¯s eyes; life¡¯s what they learn, and, having learnt it, never,
though they seek to hide it, cease to be aware of ¡ª what That life¡¯s like
that, it seems. Five faces opposite ¡ª five mature faces ¡ª and the knowledge in
each face. Strange, though, how people want to conceal it! Marks of reticence
are on all those faces: lips shut, eyes shaded, each one of the five doing
something to hide or stultify his knowledge. One smokes; another reads; a third
checks entries in a pocket book; a fourth stares at the map of the line framed
opposite; and the fifth ¡ª the terrible thing about the fifth is that she does
nothing at all. She looks at life. Ah, but my poor, unfortunate woman, do play
the game ¡ª do, for all our sakes, conceal it! As if she heard me, she looked
up, shifted slightly in her seat and sighed. She seemed to apologise and at the
same time to say to me, ¡°If only you knew!¡± Then she looked at life again.
¡°But I do know,¡± I answered silently, glancing at the TIMES for manners¡¯
sake. ¡°I know the whole business. ¡®Peace between Germany and the Allied Powers
was yesterday officially ushered in at Paris ¡ª Signor Nitti, the Italian Prime
Minis. Air Max 90 UK ter ¡ª a passenger
train at Doncaster was in collision with a goods train. ..¡¯ We all know ¡ª the
TIMES knows ¡ª but we pretend we don¡¯t.¡± My eyes had once more crept over the
paper¡¯s rim She shuddered, twitched her arm queerly to the middle of her back
and shook her head. Again I dipped into my great reservoir of life. ¡°Take what
you like,¡± I continued, ¡°births, deaths, marriages, Court Circular, the habits
of birds, Leonardo da Vinci, the Sandhills murder, high wages and the cost of
living ¡ª oh, take what you like,¡± I repeated, ¡°it¡¯s all in the TIMES!¡±
Again with infinite weariness she moved her head from side to side until, like a
top exhausted with spinning, it settled on her neck. The TIMES was no protection
against such sorrow as hers. But other human beings forbade intercourse. The
best thing to do against life was to fold the paper so that it made a perfect
square, crisp, thick, impervious even to life. This done, I glanced up quickly,
armed with a shield of my own. She pierced through my shield; she gazed into my
eyes as if searching any sediment of courage at the depths of them and damping
it to clay. Her twitch alone denied all h. Cheap Air Max 2012 ope, discounted all
illusion. So we rattled through Surrey and across the border into Sussex. But
with my eyes upon life I did not see that the other travellers had left, one by
one, till, save for the man who read, we were alone together. Here was Three
Bridges station. We drew slowly down the platform and stopped. Was he going to
leave us I prayed both ways ¡ª I prayed last that he might stay. At that instant
he roused himself, crumpled his paper contemptuously, like a thing done with,
burst open the door, and left us alone. The unhappy woman, leaning a little
forward, palely and colourlessly addressed me ¡ª talked of stations and
holidays, of brothers at Eastbourne, and the time of year, which was, I forget
now, early or late. But at last looking from the window and seeing, I knew, only
life, she breathed, ¡°Staying away ¡ª that¡¯s the drawback of it ¡ª¡± Ah, now we
approached the catastrophe, ¡°My sister-in-law¡±¡ª the bitterness of her tone
was like lemon on cold steel, and speaking, not to me, but to herself, she
muttered, ¡°nonsense, she would say ¡ª that¡¯s what they all say,¡± and while
she spoke she fidgeted as though the skin on her back were as a plucked fowl¡¯s
in a poulterer¡¯s shop-window.
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