1. The old lady clearly read his state of mind, for the apparently irrepressible dimple peeped out. ’ Rather to his surprise, she obeyed this injunction as he led her up two flights of stairs to the first floor. A certain irritation crept into his manner as he did so. His spirits revived, and encouraging himself with the idea that the present impediment, though the greatest, was the last, he set himself seriously to consider how it might best be overcome. Their conversation degenerated again and again into a strain of self-congratulation that would have irked an eavesdropper. She became more and more alive, not so much to a system of ideas as to a big diffused impulse toward change, to a great discontent with and criticism of life as it is lived, to a clamorous confusion of ideas for reconstruction—reconstruction of the methods of business, of economic development, of the rules of property, of the status of children, of the clothing and feeding and teaching of every one; she developed a quite exaggerated consciousness of a multitude of people going about the swarming spaces of London with their minds full, their talk and gestures full, their very clothing charged with the suggestion of the urgency of this pervasive project of alteration. So absorbed was she by her passionate supplications that she was insensible to anything passing around her, until she felt a touch upon her shoulder, and heard a well-known voice breathe in her ear—"Mother!" She started at the sound as if an apparition had called her, screamed, and fell into her son's outstretched arms. ‘Not care? For this he must be an Englishman tout à fait sympathique, and— and I know only.
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