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“But her suppressed agitation as the children continued to play showed her, moment by moment, who she was.
A mother with no generosity, mother to nobody but her own child, her love showing how mother was the opposite of motherly.”

He understood, from everything he had endured in his own lite, that the worth of honesty, presented as noble before school-children, was itself a lie. The honest souls who paused to deliberate on morals found, when they made their choice, that the treasure was gone. What was absolutely true and right, and what was absolutely false and wrong, and how could any sane person live without crossing the borders every day?

“He was too old to commence life in a new country. In America, he knew, he would be a diminished version of himself-uncertain of social mores, unaccustomed to the accents, wary of car culture. There would be nobody in that place acquainted with his boyhood self. Was such an escape rescue or its own ruin?”