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The promotion of cottage industries , the prevention of juvenile street trading , the extension of the Borstal prison system , the furtherance of vague talkative religious movements the fostering of inter-racial ENTENTES , all found in him a tireless exponent , a fluent and entertaining , though perhaps not very convincing , advocate . From the corner of her eye , she noticed that the toes of Lambert ’ s boots were no longer wagging . It 'd take another expedition , with adequate climbing equipment , to properly search the chasm 's entire length . So I was on the seventh floor of Barneys , standing on line , waiting to pay for a sweater-a little cashmere cardigan in a bright tangerine that would look good peeking out from under my white smock . But from the man who had been standing statue still , even the faintest motion was startling and so commanding that the nurse recoiled and was silent . I must have fallen asleep ; for the next thing I remem - bered was finding myself standing up , supported by a soldier on each side of me . It continued to rain , but Killip shouldered his pack and started up the steep slope , convinced he was climbing Mount Ida . Tom Hillman and John Biggs had just come one mountain closer to their goal of climbing the highest point in each of the 50 states . " She forced a smile , suddenly recalling his article , the almost published piece in Life . But now that he was standing in bright light , she saw it was raven black . It is to be noted that lying and standing and sitting are particular attitudes , but attitude is itself a relative term . An 11 millimeter [ 0.43 inch ] climbing rope was severed in half about 20 feet [ 6 meters ] from his body . For two hours I sat there , thinking of bygone times ; recalling old scenes , and summoning half-forgotten faces out of the mists of the past ; listening , in fancy , to voices that long ago grew silent for all time , and to once familiar songs that nobody sings now . Already her mind was dwelling on the details of that ghastly farewell dinner-party and recalling one by one the incidents of ill-omen that had marked it ; how they had sat down seven to table and how one liqueur glass in the set of seven had been shivered into fragments ; how her glass had slipped from her hand as she raised it to her lips to wish Comus a safe return ; and the strange , quiet hopelessness of Lady Veula 's " good-bye " ; she remembered now how it had chilled and frightened her at the moment .