26/27 I believe--I believe it would have--it would have ended--nothing." 'He had been walking up and down, but with the last word he turned short at me. A pause ensued, and suddenly I felt myself overcome by a profound and hopeless fatigue, as though his voice had startled me out of a dream of wandering through empty spaces whose immensity had harassed my soul and exhausted my body. Would have ended nothing," he muttered over me obstinately, after a little while. |