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Somehow, in some unfathomable way, everyone knew everything about everyone and it had often been said that if you sneezed in the bath someone would appear with a tissue.
and he was sitting there in his dressing gown, so thin and crumpled that Emilia almost wanted to cry. He had always been strong, robust.
Arthur did not deal well with disappointment. Without meaning to, he somehow celebrated it. So what had happened?
These had been his plans. But if there was one thing that life had taught him, it was the futility of making plans. Life had its own agenda.
he sometimes wondered if there might not be hidden costs for a humanity that had already been sorely tested in his lifetime.
‘But there have been times when I have been very much in the shadows, when I have looked into the valley of death and wished—and wished I could enter.
He was in his late fifties but looked much older, worn out by a struggle that he had actually lost a long time ago.
