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Excerpt from Accidentals
I had written these things in France during the past two or three years. They were already made? into a book. Now they seem to me quite unfamiliar. They are things written ages and ages ago, in times almost forgotten, of a country that will never again be the same country, and of a people whose life will never again be the same life. Something has hap pened to the roads and streets and rivers; and to the people who pass along them; and to the forests and cities and fields; and to the people in thatched cabins, and to the people in castles. Nothing will ever any more be as it was. People who love France with a certain special love, know now why always she seemed to them sad, and so touchingly beau tiful; and for what it was that, always, everything waited. There has shone out the high, clear, keen, pure ?ame that is the soul of France. Whatever happens, there is the ?ame shining. I am half ashamed of these stories because they are small and pale. And I am fond of them, because, though the things about which they were written do not matter, and the mood of their writing I do not even remem ber, still, they were written in the country of the.
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