Sally: A Study: And Other Tales of the Outskirts (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Sally: A Study: And Other Tales of the Outskirts

Those years have brought me things good and things ill, joys and sorrows, failures over-numerous and successes one or two: my union with the East has had, like nearly every union, its jars and its evil moments, its periods of depression, its passing accesses of aversion, of nausea, of satiety. But above and beyond and behind all this, how much, how more than much, it has held for me! Now at the last, when the bitter hour of separation has come, a full realisation of all that the East has meant for me, of all that the East has taught to me, of all that the East has given to me, of all that the East stands for in my heart and in my memory, is upon me with overpowering force; and I the whilom exile, kneel humbly at her dear feet, grim step-mother of our kind, though some he found to name her, - thank her for her bounties, kiss her time-worn hand, and so depart in sadness.

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