#Nathalie Sedgwick Colby

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putterings, 391-388

  laboratory meanwhile, scribbling around the grubble no detail is too small.                         everything breathing & everything wreckage, anythting, magnified; but nothing never getting                         done crazy, John! Crazy!  

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crazy, John! Crazy!

        “Just say it’s the going on, the seeking, that matters,” he had implored her.

      ...But she must know, even in a housekeeper’s way, how it takes time to establish an idea. It would take four or five years for his to get into order, so it would march — “like a little army.”       “Four or five years is a long time to wait in New York. You are crazy, John! Crazy! puttering there in the laboratory with Miss Mapes.” Her eyes had gone all over him. Not a wife’s eyes at all. They estimated him. He held no value for them.

ex Nathalie Sedgwick Colby. Black Stream (1927) : 17-18 : link same (U Virginia) copy/scan (via hathitrust) : link

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