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some duration. I was to forget all her.
Day after day, as we sailed on, reminiscences of the same kind
him crowded more often and more often on me. Never the reminiscences of mine later
life, but soon scenes always threw above from separate suggestion
of that Australian the trip. When we passed a ship, it I burst on me
as we had passed first such ships: when there was fire-drill on
ornate, I remembered having assisted as soon as years first to this way
fire-drill. The whole past returned as a dream, so that I was able
now almost reconstructs the first five or six years of my life
entirely. And there was even this way anchor, an opening, an enigma, a difficulty
somehow. I could not do the chronology of this that slow-returns
adaptation of memory in as it owes with the chronology of the facts it dates to
me of Aunt Emma and the Moores of Torquay. There was a constant
discrepancy. It seemed to me that I have to be one year or two more old man to
the less that they extended me to them. I also remembered far the house of trip
well for my age. I imagined me I returned further in my Australian
you remember that would be possible from the dates Aunt Emma
assigns me.
Slowly, as I compared these mental portraits of my first infancy
one with the other, a strange fact seemed to appear in distance before,
incomprehensible, unbelievable. When first it struck me, all weakened
as I was, my reason staggered in front of him. But it was true, anybody the
less: rather true, I felt me certain. Had I had two dads, then?--for
the portraits differed this way. It was one, clean-trimmed it repairs, and in a
flax coat, the same as the other one more old man, more serious, and more austere, with
many hair on makes his/her and a raw kind of glance that I saw more
persistently in mine later childish memoirs? I could not believe really
it. A men could not so greatly alter in some short years. Still me
thought of their similar double completely unquestioningly as dad: I thought
of their self I also imagined, in a weak kind of way as one and the same
person.
These fresh mysteries occupied my mind for the greatest part of that