13/39 "You can't do it," he said decisively. "Everything in every way has been begun and completed and then forgotten over and over in this world,--to be begun and completed and forgotten again, and so on to the end of the chapter. No one nation is better than another in this respect,--there is,--there can be nothing new. Norway, for example, has had its day; whether it will ever have another I know not,--at any rate, I shall not live to see it. And yet, what a past!--" He broke off and his eyes grew meditative. |