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bc2faf8
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Old Campion had once said he believed - he positively believed, with shudders - that Christopher desired to live in the spirit of Christ. That had seemed horrible to the general, but Mark did not see that it was horrible, ... He doubted, however, whether Christ would have refused to manage Groby had it been his job. Christ was sort of an Englishman and Englishmen did not as rule refuse their jobs... They had not used to; now no doubt they ..
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englishmen
tietjens
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Ford Madox Ford |
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721ae1f
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Ruggles disliked Christopher Tietjens with the inveterate dislike of the man who revels in gossip for the man who never gossips.
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Ford Madox Ford |
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0f58be0
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By God!' Christopher exclaimed. 'I loathe your whole beastly buttered-toast, mutton-chopped, carpet-slippered, rum-negused comfort as much as I loathe your beastly Riviera-palaced, chauffeured, hydraulic-lifted, hot-house aired beastliness of fornication....
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Ford Madox Ford |
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634ce8f
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A gentleman in those days consulted his heirs about tree planting. Should you plant a group of copper beeches against a group of white maples over against the ha-ha a quarter of a mile from the house so that the contrast seen from the ball-room windows should be agreeable--in thirty years' time? In those days thought, in families, went in periods of thirty years, owner gravely consulting heir who should see that development of light and sha..
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treeplanting
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Ford Madox Ford |
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8548678
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We talked of it, of course, but I guess Florence got all she wanted out of one look at a place. She had the seeing eye. I haven't, unfortunately, so that the world is full of places to which I want to return.
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Ford Madox Ford |
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f8b7e9e
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The signal for the train's departure was a very bright red; that is about as passionate a statement as I can get into that scene.
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Ford Madox Ford |
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6fe41b6
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For love is like a journey in mountainous country, up through the clouds, and down into the shadows to an unknown destination.
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Ford Madox Ford |
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c7edd75
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Words passed, but words could no more prove an established innocence than words can enhance a love that exists.
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Ford Madox Ford |
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a9130dd
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And she knew too: she had always known under her mind and now she confessed it; her agony had been, half of it, because one day he would say farewell to her, like that, with the inflexion of a verb. As, just occasionally, using the word 'we' - and perhaps without intention - he had let her know that he loved her.
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Ford Madox Ford |
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aad6dfb
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She warned him that, if he got killed, she should cut down the great cedar at the south-west corner of Groby. It kept all the light out of the principal drawing-room and the bedrooms above it.... He winced: he certainly winced at that. She regretted that she had said it. It was along other lines that she desired to make him wince.
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cutting
no-more-parades
parade-s-end
sylvia-tietjens
tree
warning
wince
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Ford Madox Ford |
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0855b5c
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At the beginning of the war...I had to look in on the War Office, and in a room I found a fellow...What do you think he was doing...what the hell do you think he was doing? He was devising the ceremonial for the disbanding of a Kitchener battalion. You can't say we were not prepared in one matter at least.... Well, the end of the show was to be: the adjutant would stand the battalion at ease; the band would play Land of Hope and Glory, and ..
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passing-of-time
tragedy
world-war-1
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Ford Madox Ford |
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9ac1d7d
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Is the whole thing a folly and a mockery? Am I no better than a eunuch or is the proper man--the man with the right to existence--a raging stallion forever neighing after his neighbor's womankind? I don't know. And there is nothing to guide us. And if everything is so nebulous about a matter so elementary as the morals of sex, what is there to guide us in the more subtle morality of all other personal contacts, associations, and activities?..
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Ford Madox Ford |
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bb215bb
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You have no idea how engrossing such a profession may become. Just as the blacksmith says: 'By hammer and hand all Art doth stand,' just as the baker thinks that all the solar system revolves around his morning delivery of rolls, as the postmaster-general believes that he alone is the preserver of society - and surely, surely, these delusions are necessary to keep us going.
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Ford Madox Ford |
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ec3579a
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hw'l ns flndrz yntZrn lDWy'`yn, yntZrna lDWy'`yn ldhyn 'bdan ln yuGdrw lmyn, yntZrn lDWy'`yn lWdhyn 'bdan ln yjy bhm lqTr l~ 'HDn hw'l lnWsw@, dhwt lwjwh lmyt@, yntZrn lDWy'`yn lWdhyn yrqdwn mwt~ fy lkhndq wlHjz wlTWyn fy Zlm llyl. hdhh mHTW@ tshrnG krws. lsW`@ jwzt lwHd@. thmW@ Dw Dy'yl thmW@ 'lm `Zym"."
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Ford Madox Ford |
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822ad07
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Then, happy was the man who carried his liquor well.
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Ford Madox Ford |
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9fa268b
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What distinguished man from the brutes was his freedom. When,
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Ford Madox Ford |
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30b034e
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Fellows come in and tell the most extraordinarily gross stories--so gross that they will positively give you a pain. And yet they'd be offended if you suggested that they weren't the sort of person you could trust your wife alone with.
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Ford Madox Ford |
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7d980a4
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But of course he hates you for being in the army. All the men who aren't hate all the men that are.
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Ford Madox Ford |
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f348d50
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Sylvia knew he was only now formulating his settled opinion so as not to have his active brain to give to the discussion.
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Ford Madox Ford |
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d61f88c
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Our Minister for Water-closets won't keep two and a half million men in any base in order to get the votes of their women
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Ford Madox Ford |
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198721c
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A world with England presenting the spectacles of moral cowardice will be a world on a lower plane.... If
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Ford Madox Ford |
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6267a73
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A world profits by the example of a steadfast nation....
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Ford Madox Ford |
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1a689ec
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There won't be any more parades after this war. There aren't any now.
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Ford Madox Ford |
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69b3763
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The Central Empires represented Roman Catholicism, the Allies Protestantism and Orthodoxy. Let them unite.
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Ford Madox Ford |
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3cb04e4
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The exact eye: exact observation: it was a man's work. The only work for a man. Why then were artists soft: effeminate: not men at all: whilst the army officer, who had the inexact mind of the schoolteacher, was a manly man? Quite a manly man: until he became an old woman!
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tietjens
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Ford Madox Ford |
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1e36258
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It was as if a man should have jumped out of a frying pan into -- a duckpond.
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Ford Madox Ford |
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5c62a0f
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God is probably -- and very rightly -- on the side of the stuffy domesticities. Otherwise
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Ford Madox Ford |
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0e6ed17
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Otherwise the world could not continue -- the children would not be healthy. And
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Ford Madox Ford |
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7d16b60
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Few Germans were imaginative enough to be irresponsible, but
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Ford Madox Ford |
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0c90784
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Gentlemen don't earn money. Gentlemen, as a matter of fact, don't do anything. They
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Ford Madox Ford |
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2f0f357
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This was a war of attrition...A mug's game! A mug's game as far as killing men was concerned, but not an uninteresting occupation if you considered it as a struggle of various minds spread all over the broad landscape in the sunlight. They did not kill many men and they expended an infinite number of missiles and a vast amount of thought. If you took six million men armed with loaded canes and stockings containing bricks or knives and set t..
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Ford Madox Ford |
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8e55d49
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Society must go on, I suppose, and society can only exist if the normal, if the virtuous, and the slightly deceitful flourish, and if the passionate, the headstrong, and the too-truthful are condemned to suicide and to madness.
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Ford Madox Ford |
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b2f1743
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Being correspondent of a Left paper with a name like Eisenstein deprived one of one's chance of usefulness. Besides
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Ford Madox Ford |
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37f3696
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Edith Ethel with the sweetest possible smile would beg the pillows off a whole hospital ward full of dying.... She
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Ford Madox Ford |
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2f172a4
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It was probably indecent to think of a corpse as impotent. But he was, very likely. That would be why his wife had taken up with the prize-fighter Red Evans Williams of Castell Goch.
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dead-man
indecent
no-more-parades
parade-s-end
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Ford Madox Ford |
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cddafae
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being a miner he sat on his heels more comfortably than on a chair
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no-more-parades
parade-s-end
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Ford Madox Ford |
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3d9de0b
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But always, at moments when his mind was like a blind octopus, squirming in an agony of knife-cuts, she would drop in that accusation.
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mind
no-more-parades
octopus
parade-s-end
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Ford Madox Ford |
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9b06a70
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It is, in fact, asking for trouble if you are more altruist than the society that surrounds you
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Ford Madox Ford |
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c2523a6
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So you cannot teach me a great deal about the shady in life. I was in the family of a Middlesex County Councillor. In
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Ford Madox Ford |
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ca513f6
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I have, I am aware, told this story in a very rambling way so that it may be difficult for anyone to find his path through what may be a sort of maze. I cannot help it. I have stuck to my idea of being in a country cottage with a silent listener, hearing between the gusts of the wind and amidst the noises of the distant sea the story as it comes. And, when one discusses an affair - a long, sad affair - one goes back, one goes forward. One r..
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Ford Madox Ford |
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aba72c6
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Good God, what did they all see in him? for I swear there was all there was of him, inside and out; though they said he was a good soldier. Yet, Leonora adored him with a passion that was like an agony, and hated him with an agony that was as bitter as the sea. How could he arouse anything like a sentiment, in anybody?
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Ford Madox Ford |
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0d4359e
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Leonora, as I have said, was the perfectly normal woman. I mean to say that in normal circumstances her desires were those of the woman who is needed by society. She desired children, decorum, an establishment she desired to avoid waste, she desired to keep up appearances. She was utterly and entirely normal even in her utterly undeniable beauty. But I don't mean to say that she acted perfectly normally in this perfectly abnormal situation...
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Ford Madox Ford |
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2074976
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It is of course lawful to learn of the Enemy; but is it sensible?
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Ford Madox Ford |
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5752b1b
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That was what a young woman was for. You seduced a young woman in order to be able to finish your talks with her. You could not do that without living with her. You could not live with her without seducing her; but that was the by-product. The point is that you can't otherwise talk. You can't finish talks at street corners; in museums; even in drawing-rooms. You mayn't be in the mood when she is in the mood - for the intimate conversation t..
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Ford Madox Ford |