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He wondered if the real world was that one in which men fought for policies and principles and died or lived gloriously—or more often miserably—for the sake of an abstract word like patriotism or independence, or if reality belonged to the humble people and the common land.
He suddenly found that the thing he had set out to prove had proved something quite different. Human nature had outmaneuvered him. For if she would not desert a friend, neither could he.
A tenacious prime minister, at twenty-seven, was holding his uneasy position in the face of all the coalitions to upset him, but the coalitions had hopes.
The United States had so far been united only in a dislike for overlordship,
Someone—a Latin poet—had defined eternity as no more than this: to hold and possess the whole fullness of life in one moment, there and then, past and present and to come.
