Excerpt from The Gayworthys: A Story of Threads and Thrums
Threads and thrums are everywhere. Human nature and its workings are everywhere. But the "wheres" change. I am not sure that exactly such a town as Hilbury, or exactly such life as was lived there, could be found now in New England; because the science books, and the fashion books, and the continual throb of the electric wires have got into all the quiet places, and nothing is remote or separate, any more. Human experience is all mixed up; what happens in London, or Japan, or Washington, or Boston is the news and stir in every little far-off corner at the hour of its transpiring. There is no rest from the great whirl of the world.
I think, therefore, it is a comfort to get away into a book, sometimes, where the old things are laid up in the lavender of memory.
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