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Mr. Vance explains how he came to grind colours and save half-pence. -- A sudden announcement.
The meal was over; the table had been spread by a window that looked upon the river. The moon was up: the young men asked for no other lights; conversation between them -- often shifting, often pausing -- had gradually become grave, as it usually does with two companions in youth; while yet long vistas in the Future stretch before them deep in shadow, and they fall into confiding talk on what they wish, -- what they fear; making visionary maps in that limitless Obscure.