beach

 “Business had taken Herbert on a journey to Marseilles.  I was alone, and had a dull sense of being alone.  Dispirited and anxious, long hoping that tomorrow or next week would clear my way, and long disappointed.” Pip in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. 

but then

“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.” Pip in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations.