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that in Hemming’s death they
had lost something vital and necessary to their lives. He didn’t care if they really
felt that way or not: he just needed them to say it, he needed to feel that
something lay beneath their imperturbable calm, that somewhere within them
ran a thin stream of quick, cool water, teeming with delicate lives, minnows and
grasses and tiny white flowers, all tender and easily wounded and so