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Can you understand when I tell you that you owe me nothing? That to have a child is an account which is settled on the spot
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The children seemed to cast their Precursors like shadows about the house, sometimes tangibly, in the sound of a voice, sometimes by suggestion, because it was striking the hour for their return from a walk, sometimes mysteriously, because inside the shell of their mother's head the children were painted like angels on the roof of a chapel.
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Suddenly, as they walked with their buckets, it was not the child in each face that she sought, but the Wonder that had raised itself on to its two feet, that had learnt to walk, to run, that had spoken, that had got in touch with life under her hand.
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If I had my life over again[, ] I'd have thought more about words. And thought about them earlier.
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It was March. The days of March creeping gustily on like something that man couldn't hinder and God wouldn't hurry.
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In a strange way', she thought, 'these absences suit my nature though not my heart. I love him, I miss him, but I have time to put on my humanity again.
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And now, finished with that puzzling mixture of insane intimacy and isolation which is notoriety, Velvet was able to get on quietly to her next adventures.
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I don't like people," said Velvet. "... I only like horses.
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She'd ride like a piece of lightning. No more weight'n a piece of lightning.
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