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By that point , even Lexie had stopped browsing and turned her attention to the couple . All gathered to pay homage to the man who spoke of the universality of love . On a salver by itself was the cablegram for which she had waited . As childhood gave way to adolescence and adolescence to manhood , Jean Pierre Michel found his life taking on the shape and specificity of one of his gathered objects . In the lonely hour of early afternoon , when the workers had gone back to their work , and the loiterers were scarcely yet gathered again , Francesca Bassington made her way restlessly along the stretches of gravelled walk that bordered the ornamental water . Four pairs of eyes were trained on her , curiously waiting to hear her name . The heavy golden curtains of the room were tied back from the window ; they had not been closed in many years , and their gathered folds held within them the ageing dust of the man who sat there every day . But Foxe Basin turned out to be choked with sea ice , so I was stuck in Sanirajak , waiting for a gale to come along and whisk the ice away . " Then he took out his watch , a great , old-fashioned German silver thing as big as a turnip and looked at it , with his eyebrows gathered together and a little impatient shrug of his shoulders .