Memories

In the concluding paragraph of some novels by Dornford Yates, the first person narrator recalls several highlights from the just-completed narrative and informs us that he frequently remembers those experiences later in life. 

I am having the familiar experience of remembering but not being able to find a passage near the end of A Circus of Hells. Djana remembers the time when when she and Flandry had hunted for wealth on Wayland. There is a similar passage near the end of The Rebel Worlds:

"Theirs had been a curious intimacy when they traveled hither... dreamy talk of old days and far places, much reminiscence about little events on Dido..."

-The Rebel Worlds, CHAPTER FIFTEEN, p. 505.

Those are events that we did not read about. We know that that journey was long whereas Anderson's narrative is almost telegrammatically compact. Those little events were too trivial to be mentioned.

One later incident on Dido stays in my memory. Passing himself off as a rebel, Flandry converses with white-bearded Director Jowett in Port Frederiksen. Jowett says that the Josipists:

"'...won't give our Emperor the decisive battle he needs.'"

-CHAPTER THIRTEEN, p. 493.

When asked whether the rebels should yield:

"The old head lifted. 'Not while our Emperor lives!'" (ibid.)

I appreciate the archaism of the director of a scientific base on an extra-solar planet surrounded by an interstellar civilization expressing loyalty to "our Emperor."