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"A covert place / Where you might think to find a din / Of doubtful talk, and a live flame / Wandering, and many a shape whose name / Not itself knoweth, and old dew, / And your own footsteps meeting you, / And all things going as they came. " / - D. G. ROSSETTI, The Portrait
For five months after that Whitsuntide at Flambard I saw and heard nothing of Goodeve. But I could not get him out of my mind, for of all the party he had struck me as the one to whom the experience meant the most, the one who had been the most tense and expectant. Whatever he had seen on the phantasmal Times page of a year ahead he would take with the utmost seriousness. I liked him so much that I was a little anxious about him. He was finer clay than the others.