It falls
...in with what I tell you - that she's all, as I've called it, fine cold thought. She had, to her own mind, worked the whole thing out in advance, and worked it out for me as well as for herself. Whenever she has done that, you see, there's no room left; no margin, as it were, for any alteration. She's filled as full, packed as tight, as she'll hold, and if you wish to get anything more or different either out or in -"
"You've got to make over, altogether, the woman herself?"
TRANSIENT PEAKS
"...not a breath of the cooler evening that wasn't somehow a syllable of the text. The text was simply, when condensed, that in these places such things were, and that if it was in them one elected to move about, one had to make one's account with what one lighted on. Meanwhile, at all events, it was enough that they did affect one - so far as the village aspect was concerned - as whiteness, crookedness and blueness set in coppery green; there being positively, for that matter, an outer wall of the "White Harse" that was painted the most improbable shade. That was part of the amusement - as if to show that the fun was harmless; just as it was enough, further, that the picture and the play seemed supremely to melt together in the good woman's broad sketch of what she could do for her visitor's appetite."
SILVER MOON SAIL UP AND SILVER MOON SHINE
...seeming singularly to simplify, certified to him that the objects about would help him, would really help them both. No, he might never see them again - this was only too probably the last time;and he should certainly see nothing in the least degree like them. He should soon be going to where such things were not, and it would be a small mercy for memory, for fancy, to have, in that stress, a loaf on the shelf."
"You've got to make over, altogether, the woman herself?"
TRANSIENT PEAKS
"...not a breath of the cooler evening that wasn't somehow a syllable of the text. The text was simply, when condensed, that in these places such things were, and that if it was in them one elected to move about, one had to make one's account with what one lighted on. Meanwhile, at all events, it was enough that they did affect one - so far as the village aspect was concerned - as whiteness, crookedness and blueness set in coppery green; there being positively, for that matter, an outer wall of the "White Harse" that was painted the most improbable shade. That was part of the amusement - as if to show that the fun was harmless; just as it was enough, further, that the picture and the play seemed supremely to melt together in the good woman's broad sketch of what she could do for her visitor's appetite."
SILVER MOON SAIL UP AND SILVER MOON SHINE
...seeming singularly to simplify, certified to him that the objects about would help him, would really help them both. No, he might never see them again - this was only too probably the last time;and he should certainly see nothing in the least degree like them. He should soon be going to where such things were not, and it would be a small mercy for memory, for fancy, to have, in that stress, a loaf on the shelf."