Such an expression of unhappiness was enough by itself to make one's eyes slide above the paper's edge to the poor woman's face-insignificant without that look, almost a symbol of human destiny with it. 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-what? That life's like that, it seems. Five faces opposite-five mature faces-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-the terrible thing about the fifth is that she does nothing at all.
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- A HAUNTED HOUSE
- A SOCIETY
- BLUE & GREEN
- MONDAY OR TUESDAY
- AN UNWRITTEN NOVEL
- THE STRING QUARTET
- KEW GARDENS
- THE MARK ON THE WALL
- THE NEW DRESS
- THE SHOOTING PARTY
- LAPPIN AND LAPINOVA
- SOLID OBJECTS
- THE LADY IN THE LOOKING-GLASS
- THE DUCHESS AND THE JEWELLER
- MOMENTS OF BEING
- THE MAN WHO LOVED HIS KIND
- THE SEARCHLIGHT
- THE LEGACY
- TOGETHER AND APART
- A SUMMING UP