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'That's Lily all over, you know: she works like a slave preparing the ground and sowing her seed; but the day she ought to be reaping the harvest she oversleeps herself or goes off on a picnic.'
'Sometimes,' she added, 'I think it's just fightiness—and sometimes I think it's because, at heart, she despises the things she's trying for. And it's the difficulty of deciding that makes her such an interesting study.'

His face, with its tossed red hair and straggling moustache, had a driven uneasy look, as though life had be come an unceasing race between himself and the thoughts at his heels.