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Origins trouble the voyager much, those roots

that have sipped the waters of another continent . . .

it is solitude that mutilates,

the night bulb that reveals ash on my sleeve.

ARTHUR NORTJE

Don’t travel beyond

Acton at noon in the intimate summer light of England

ARTHUR NORTJE

In writing the history of unfashionable families one is apt to fall into a tone of emphasis which is very far from being the tone of good society, where principles and beliefs are not only of an extremely moderate kind, but are always presupposed, no subjects being eligible but such as can be touched with a light and graceful irony.

GEORGE ELIOT, The Mill on the Floss