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HELEN and I have a failing, though you may not have thought that such a thing was possible. It is a foolish weakness for old bits of rubbish. We can neither of us without anguish1 and unutterable rendings bear to throw old and useless things away. The weakness has to be got over sometimes, but we keep putting the work of destruction off, just as one puts off a visit to the dentist, with the result that when it comes to pass we find that it would have been far better to have done it long ago. However, if we did not occasionally tear things up, and throw things away, the house would become uninhabitable, so this morning we vowed2 to each other to spend the hours till lunch in the work of destruction. Our rubbish collects chiefly in the room that is called mine, where she has a knee-hole table with nine{282} drawers. She opened these one after the other. They were all full, and despair seized her.
‘I can’t,’ she said. ‘Here are nine drawers all quite full of heart’s blood. O Jack3, look!’
And she brought across to me a photograph I had taken of Legs jumping the lawn-tennis net. He was sitting in the air apparently4 in an easy attitude. One knee seemed crossed over the other, and his mouth was wide open.
‘It will be harder than ever this year,’ she said, half to herself. ‘And there are nine drawers full!’
‘Circumscribe the drops of heart’s blood as they come,’ said I. ‘Don’t think there are nine drawers full. Only keep thinking of the particular thing that has to be kept or thrown away.’
‘Oh, but it’s only the fact that there are nine drawers full that makes it possible to throw anything away at all,’ said she.
‘Hush, woman!’ said I.
Personally, I am extremely methodical over the work of destruction. I clear a table and dump upon it a pile of heart’s blood. This I{283} sort into three heaps, one of which is for destruction, one for preservation5, and one for further consideration. I proceeded to do so now.
There were many pieces of string. Throughout the year I keep pieces of string, because I know I shall use them. As a matter of fact, when I want a piece of string I cut it off Helen’s ball, and never use any of the bits that I have saved, because I don’t know where they are, and they would prove to be the wrong length if I did. So on the day of destruction I
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gale
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hearth
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puff
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