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+MINNIE'S FLAT AS THE ONE FLOOR RESIDENT APARTMENTS WERE THEN BEING CALLED WAS IN A PART OF WEST VAN BUREN STREET INHABITED BY FAMILIES OF LABOURERS AND CLERKS MEN WHO HAD COME AND WERE STILL COMING WITH THE RUSH OF POPULATION POURING IN AT THE RATE OF FIFTY THOUSAND A YEAR. IT WAS ON THE THIRD FLOOR THE FRONT WINDOWS LOOKING DOWN INTO THE STREET WHERE AT NIGHT THE LIGHTS OF GROCERY STORES WERE SHINING AND CHILDREN WERE PLAYING. TO CARRIE THE SOUND OF THE LITTLE BELLS UPON THE HORSE CARS AS THEY TINKLED IN AND OUT OF HEARING WAS AS PLEASING AS IT WAS NOVEL. SHE GAZED INTO THE LIGHTED STREET WHEN MINNIE BROUGHT HER INTO THE FRONT ROOM AND WONDERED AT THE SOUNDS THE MOVEMENT THE MURMUR OF THE VAST CITY WHICH STRETCHED FOR MILES AND MILES IN EVERY DIRECTION. MISSUS HANSON AFTER THE FIRST GREETINGS WERE OVER GAVE CARRIE THE BABY AND PROCEEDED TO GET SUPPER. HER HUSBAND ASKED A FEW QUESTIONS AND SAT DOWN TO READ THE EVENING PAPER. HE WAS A SILENT MAN AMERICAN BORN OF A SWEDE FATHER AND NOW EMPLOYED AS A CLEANER OF REFRIGERATOR CARS AT THE STOCK YARDS. TO HIM THE PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF HIS WIFE'S SISTER WAS A MATTER OF INDIFFERENCE. HER PERSONAL APPEARANCE DID NOT AFFECT HIM ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. HIS ONE OBSERVATION TO THE POINT WAS CONCERNING THE CHANCES OF WORK IN CHICAGO. IT'S A BIG PLACE HE SAID. YOU CAN GET IN SOMEWHERE IN A FEW DAYS EVERYBODY DOES. IT HAD BEEN TACITLY UNDERSTOOD BEFOREHAND THAT SHE WAS TO GET WORK AND PAY HER BOARD. HE WAS OF A CLEAN SAVING DISPOSITION AND HAD ALREADY PAID A NUMBER OF MONTHLY INSTALMENTS ON TWO LOTS FAR OUT ON THE WEST SIDE. HIS AMBITION WAS SOME DAY TO BUILD A HOUSE ON THEM. IN THE INTERVAL WHICH MARKED THE PREPARATION OF THE MEAL CARRIE FOUND TIME TO STUDY THE FLAT. SHE HAD SOME SLIGHT GIFT OF OBSERVATION AND THAT SENSE SO RICH IN EVERY WOMAN INTUITION. SHE FELT THE DRAG OF A LEAN AND NARROW LIFE. THE WALLS OF THE ROOMS WERE DISCORDANTLY PAPERED. THE FLOORS WERE COVERED WITH MATTING AND THE HALL LAID WITH A THIN RAG CARPET. ONE COULD SEE THAT THE FURNITURE WAS OF THAT POOR HURRIEDLY PATCHED TOGETHER QUALITY SOLD BY THE INSTALMENT HOUSES. SHE SAT WITH MINNIE IN THE KITCHEN HOLDING THE BABY UNTIL IT BEGAN TO CRY. THEN SHE WALKED AND SANG TO IT UNTIL HANSON DISTURBED IN HIS READING CAME AND TOOK IT. A PLEASANT SIDE TO HIS NATURE CAME OUT HERE HE WAS PATIENT. ONE COULD SEE THAT HE WAS VERY MUCH WRAPPED UP IN HIS OFFSPRING. NOW NOW HE SAID WALKING THERE THERE AND THERE WAS A CERTAIN SWEDISH ACCENT NOTICEABLE IN HIS VOICE. YOU'LL WANT TO SEE THE CITY FIRST WON'T YOU SAID MINNIE WHEN THEY WERE EATING. WELL WE'LL GO OUT SUNDAY AND SEE LINCOLN PARK. CARRIE NOTICED THAT HANSON HAD SAID NOTHING TO THIS. HE SEEMED TO BE THINKING OF SOMETHING ELSE. WELL SHE SAID I THINK I'LL LOOK AROUND TO MORROW I'VE GOT FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AND IT WON'T BE ANY TROUBLE WHICH WAY IS THE BUSINESS PART. MINNIE BEGAN TO EXPLAIN BUT HER HUSBAND TOOK THIS PART OF THE CONVERSATION TO HIMSELF. IT'S THAT WAY HE SAID POINTING EAST THAT'S EAST. THEN HE WENT OFF INTO THE LONGEST SPEECH HE HAD YET INDULGED IN CONCERNING THE LAY OF CHICAGO. YOU'D BETTER LOOK IN THOSE BIG MANUFACTURING HOUSES ALONG FRANKLIN STREET AND JUST THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER HE CONCLUDED LOTS OF GIRLS WORK THERE. YOU COULD GET HOME EASY TOO IT ISN'T VERY FAR. CARRIE NODDED AND ASKED HER SISTER ABOUT THE NEIGHBOURHOOD. THE LATTER TALKED IN A SUBDUED TONE TELLING THE LITTLE SHE KNEW ABOUT IT WHILE HANSON CONCERNED HIMSELF WITH THE BABY. FINALLY HE JUMPED UP AND HANDED THE CHILD TO HIS WIFE. MINNIE'S MANNER WAS ONE OF TRAINED INDUSTRY AND CARRIE COULD SEE THAT IT WAS A STEADY ROUND OF TOIL WITH HER. SHE BEGAN TO SEE THAT HER RELATIONS WITH DROUET WOULD HAVE TO BE ABANDONED HE COULD NOT COME HERE. SHE READ FROM THE MANNER OF HANSON IN THE SUBDUED AIR OF MINNIE AND INDEED THE WHOLE ATMOSPHERE OF THE FLAT A SETTLED OPPOSITION TO ANYTHING SAVE A CONSERVATIVE ROUND OF TOIL

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+IT LIES WITH THOSE THREE OF COURSE THE TWO WOMEN AND THE ITALIAN. AND ALL THREE ARE AT LARGE ADDED THE JUDGE. THAT SHOULD BE AT ONCE REMARKED THE COMMISSARY EAGER AS USUAL FOR DECISIVE ACTION. VERY WELL LET US PROCEED IN THAT WAY. PREPARE THE WARRANTS SAID THE JUDGE TURNING TO HIS CLERK. THE ITALIAN RIPALDI WE SHALL HEAR OF THROUGH YOUR INSPECTOR BLOCK. THAT TOO SIR YOU WILL OF COURSE UNDERTAKE. I WILL CHARGE MYSELF WITH IT CERTAINLY MY MAN SHOULD BE HERE BY NOW AND I WILL INSTRUCT HIM AT ONCE. THE INSPECTOR IS THERE SAID THE GUARD POINTING TO THE OUTER ROOM HE HAS JUST RETURNED. RETURNED YOU MEAN ARRIVED. NO MONSIEUR RETURNED. IT IS BLOCK WHO LEFT AN HOUR OR MORE AGO BLOCK. THEN SOMETHING HAS HAPPENED HE HAS SOME SPECIAL INFORMATION SOME GREAT NEWS. WHEN BLOCK APPEARED IT WAS EVIDENT THAT SOMETHING HAD GONE WRONG WITH HIM. HIS FACE WORE A LOOK OF HOT FLURRIED EXCITEMENT AND HIS MANNER WAS ONE OF ABJECT CRINGING SELF ABASEMENT. WHAT IS IT. ASKED THE LITTLE CHIEF SHARPLY. YOU ARE ALONE WHERE IS YOUR MAN. ALAS MONSIEUR HOW SHALL I TELL YOU. IMPOSSIBLE YOU CANNOT MEAN IT. GONE NOW JUST WHEN WE MOST WANT HIM NEVER. IT IS SO UNHAPPILY. IDIOT TRIPLE IDIOT. YOU SHALL BE DISMISSED DISCHARGED FROM THIS HOUR YOU ARE A DISGRACE TO THE FORCE. HOW WAS IT EXPLAIN. OF COURSE YOU HAVE BEEN DRINKING. IT IS THAT OR YOUR GREAT GLUTTONY. YOU WERE BEGUILED INTO SOME EATING HOUSE. MONSIEUR YOU SHALL HEAR THE EXACT TRUTH. MY GENTLEMAN MADE HIMSELF MOST PLEASANT. NO DOUBT GROWLED THE CHIEF. I WAS MUCH SURPRISED BUT HE TOLD ME HIS BUSINESS OFTEN BROUGHT HIM HERE. GET ON GET ON COME TO THE ESSENTIAL. MY FAITH MONSIEUR I TOO WAS HUNGRY IT WAS MY REGULAR HOUR. WELL AT ANY RATE FOR MY SINS I ACCEPTED. WE ENTERED THE FIRST RESTAURANT THAT OF THE REUNITED FRIENDS YOU KNOW IT PERHAPS MONSIEUR. IN SPITE OF HIS ANGUISH BLOCK SMACKED HIS FAT LIPS AT THE THOUGHT OF THIS MOST SUCCULENT BUT VERY GREASY DISH. HOW OFTEN MUST I TELL YOU TO GET ON. I DID THINK OF IT MONSIEUR BUT THEN HE THE ITALIAN WAS JUST THE SAME AS MYSELF HE WAS A COLLEAGUE. I HAD NO FEAR OF HIM NOT TILL THE VERY LAST WHEN HE PLAYED ME THIS EVIL TURN. I SUSPECTED NOTHING WHEN HE BROUGHT OUT HIS POCKETBOOK IT WAS STUFFED FULL MONSIEUR I SAW THAT AND MY CONFIDENCE INCREASED CALLED FOR THE RECKONING AND PAID WITH AN ITALIAN BANK NOTE. A MINUTE AFTER MY MAN GOT UP SAYING. THERE MAY BE SOME TROUBLE ABOUT CHANGING THAT BANK NOTE. EXCUSE ME ONE MOMENT PRAY. HE WENT OUT MONSIEUR AND PIFF PAFF HE WAS NO MORE TO BE SEEN. AH NIGAUD ASS YOU ARE TOO FOOLISH TO LIVE. WHY DID YOU NOT FOLLOW HIM. WHY LET HIM OUT OF YOUR SIGHT. BUT MONSIEUR I WAS NOT TO KNOW WAS I. I WAS TO ACCOMPANY HIM NOT TO WATCH HIM. I HAVE DONE WRONG I CONFESS. BUT THEN WHO WAS TO TELL HE MEANT TO RUN AWAY. IT WAS ONLY NOW AT THE ELEVENTH HOUR THAT THE ITALIAN HAD BECOME INCULPATED AND THE QUESTION OF HIS POSSIBLE ANXIETY TO ESCAPE HAD NEVER BEEN CONSIDERED. HE WAS SO ARTFUL WENT ON BLOCK IN FURTHER EXTENUATION OF HIS OFFENCE. HE LEFT EVERYTHING BEHIND. HIS OVERCOAT STICK THIS BOOK HIS OWN PRIVATE MEMORANDUM BOOK SEEMINGLY BOOK

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+HAND IT ME SAID THE CHIEF AND WHEN IT CAME INTO HIS HANDS HE BEGAN TO TURN OVER THE LEAVES HURRIEDLY. I DO NOT UNDERSTAND NOT MORE THAN A WORD HERE AND THERE. IT IS NO DOUBT ITALIAN. NOT PERFECTLY BUT I CAN READ IT ALLOW ME. HE ALSO TURNED OVER THE PAGES PAUSING TO READ A PASSAGE HERE AND THERE AND NODDING HIS HEAD FROM TIME TO TIME EVIDENTLY STRUCK WITH THE IMPORTANCE OF THE MATTER RECORDED. OF COURSE SUCH A CONSUMMATE ASS AS YOU HAVE PROVED YOURSELF WOULD NOT THINK OF SEARCHING THE RESTAURANT OR THE IMMEDIATE NEIGHBOURHOOD OR OF MAKING INQUIRIES AS TO WHETHER HE HAD BEEN SEEN OR AS TO WHICH WAY HE HAD GONE. PARDON ME MONSIEUR IS TOO HARD ON ME. I HAVE BEEN UNFORTUNATE A VICTIM TO CIRCUMSTANCES STILL I BELIEVE I KNOW MY DUTY. YES I MADE INQUIRIES AND WHAT IS MORE I HEARD OF HIM. WHERE HOW. HE NEVER SPOKE TO THE MANAGER BUT WALKED OUT AND LET THE CHANGE GO. IT WAS A NOTE FOR A HUNDRED LIRE A HUNDRED FRANCS AND THE RESTAURANT BILL WAS NO MORE THAN SEVENTEEN FRANCS HAH. THAT IS GREATLY AGAINST HIM INDEED. HE WAS MUCH PRESSED IN A GREAT HURRY. DIRECTLY HE CROSSED THE THRESHOLD HE CALLED THE FIRST CAB AND WAS DRIVING AWAY BUT HE WAS STOPPED THE DEVIL. WHY DID THEY NOT KEEP HIM THEN. STOPPED BUT ONLY FOR A MOMENT AND ACCOSTED BY A WOMAN. A WOMAN YES MONSIEUR. HE WISHED TO PASS ON TO LEAVE HER SHE WOULD NOT CONSENT THEN THEY BOTH GOT INTO THE CAB AND WERE DRIVEN AWAY TOGETHER. THE OFFICIALS WERE NOW LISTENING WITH ALL EARS. HER FACE IT WAS A POLICEMAN WHO SAW HER AND HE SAID SHE WAS GOOD LOOKING DARK BRUNETTE BLACK HAIR

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+THE SOCIAL ATTITUDE TOWARDS SMOKING IN EARLY VICTORIAN DAYS AND FOR SOME TIME LATER WAS CURIOUS. THE DEVELOPMENT OF CIGAR SMOKING AMONG THOSE CLASSES FROM WHICH TOBACCO HAD LONG BEEN PRACTICALLY BANISHED AND THE NATURAL CONSEQUENT SPREAD DOWNWARDS OF THE USE OF CIGARS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INVARIABLE LAW OF FASHION TOGETHER WITH THE CONTINUED DEVOTION TO THE PIPE AMONG THOSE WHOSE LOVE OF TOBACCO HAD NEVER SLACKENED MADE SMOKING A MUCH MORE GENERAL PRACTICE THAN IT HAD BEEN FOR SOME GENERATIONS. IT IS SOMEWHAT SIGNIFICANT THAT DICKENS IN THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP EIGHTEEN FORTY MAKES THAT REPULSIVE DWARF QUILP SMOKE CIGARS. NOW MISSUS QUILP HE SAYS I FEEL IN A SMOKING HUMOUR AND SHALL PROBABLY BLAZE AWAY ALL NIGHT. BUT SIT WHERE YOU ARE IF YOU PLEASE IN CASE I WANT YOU. THE DWARF'S TASTES HOWEVER WERE CATHOLIC. A LITTLE LATER IN THE BOOK THE READER FINDS HIM WHEN ENCAMPED IN THE BACK PARLOUR OF THE OLD MAN'S SHOP SMOKING PIPE AFTER PIPE AND COMPELLING THAT KNAVISH ATTORNEY SAMPSON BRASS TO DO THE SAME. BUT QUILP AND BRASS WERE NOT IN SOCIETY. THERE WERE STILL PLENTY OF ACTIVE OPPONENTS AND DENOUNCERS OF TOBACCO. ONE OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED WAS THE GREAT DUKE OF WELLINGTON WHO ABOMINATED SMOKING AND WAS ANNOYED BY THE INCREASE OF CIGAR SMOKING AMONG OFFICERS OF THE ARMY. THE DUKE'S PREJUDICES WERE STRONGER THAN HIS FACTS. THE LADIES HAD A KEEN SCENT FOR THE ABOMINABLE ODOUR OF TOBACCO AND DISTRUSTED THE MEN WHO SMOKED. HERE IS FITZ BOODLE'S OR THACKERAY'S COMMENT ON IT WHAT IS THIS SMOKING THAT IT SHOULD BE CONSIDERED A CRIME. I BELIEVE IN MY HEART THAT WOMEN ARE JEALOUS OF IT AS OF A RIVAL. I WOULD LAY A GUINEA THAT MANY A LADY WHO HAS JUST BEEN KIND ENOUGH TO READ THE ABOVE LINES LAYS DOWN THE BOOK AFTER THIS CONFESSION OF MINE THAT I AM A SMOKER AND SAYS OH THE VULGAR WRETCH AND PASSES ON TO SOMETHING ELSE. GERMANY HAS BEEN PUFFING FOR THREE SCORE YEARS FRANCE SMOKES TO A MAN. PSHA LOOK AT HIS PROGRESS. LATER HIS TOBACCO COMBINED WITH INSOLENCE TO HIS TOBACCO HATING COLONEL CONDUCTED HIM OUT OF THE ARMY INTO THE RETIREMENT OF CIVIL LIFE AND SO ON AND SO ON. THUS THE ODOUR OF TOBACCO WAS NOT BROUGHT INTO THE DRAWING ROOM. THE JOURNALISTS AND BOHEMIANS WHO MET AT THE COGERS WERE ABOVE OR BELOW THE DICTATES OF FASHION AND SMOKING WAS ALWAYS A FEATURE OF THEIR GATHERINGS. THE HOT PIPES AND SMOULDERING MATCHES STAINED THE TABLE TOPS AND BURNT THE CARPETS SO THAT THEY HAD THE OPTION OF ABANDONING EITHER THE PIPE OR THE QUARTERS. BOTH QUEEN VICTORIA AND THE PRINCE CONSORT DETESTED IT SO TOBACCO WAS TABOO WHEREVER THE COURT WAS

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+THE OFFICERS WERE ABOUT TO TAKE LEAVE BUT PRINCE ANDREW APPARENTLY RELUCTANT TO BE LEFT ALONE WITH HIS FRIEND ASKED THEM TO STAY AND HAVE TEA. SEATS WERE BROUGHT IN AND SO WAS THE TEA. THE OFFICERS GAZED WITH SURPRISE AT PIERRE'S HUGE STOUT FIGURE AND LISTENED TO HIS TALK OF MOSCOW AND THE POSITION OF OUR ARMY ROUND WHICH HE HAD RIDDEN. SO YOU UNDERSTAND THE WHOLE POSITION OF OUR TROOPS. PRINCE ANDREW INTERRUPTED HIM. NOT BEING A MILITARY MAN I CAN'T SAY I HAVE UNDERSTOOD IT FULLY BUT I UNDERSTAND THE GENERAL POSITION. WELL THEN YOU KNOW MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE BE IT WHO IT MAY SAID PRINCE ANDREW. OH SAID PIERRE LOOKING OVER HIS SPECTACLES IN PERPLEXITY AT PRINCE ANDREW. I WAS VERY GLAD OF HIS APPOINTMENT THAT'S ALL I KNOW REPLIED PRINCE ANDREW. AND TELL ME YOUR OPINION OF BARCLAY DE TOLLY. IN MOSCOW THEY ARE SAYING HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT ABOUT HIM WHAT DO YOU THINK OF HIM. ASK THEM REPLIED PRINCE ANDREW INDICATING THE OFFICERS. PIERRE LOOKED AT TIMOKHIN WITH THE CONDESCENDINGLY INTERROGATIVE SMILE WITH WHICH EVERYBODY INVOLUNTARILY ADDRESSED THAT OFFICER. WE SEE LIGHT AGAIN SINCE HIS SERENITY HAS BEEN APPOINTED YOUR EXCELLENCY SAID TIMOKHIN TIMIDLY AND CONTINUALLY TURNING TO GLANCE AT HIS COLONEL. WHY SO ASKED PIERRE. WELL TO MENTION ONLY FIREWOOD AND FODDER LET ME INFORM YOU. AND AGAIN TIMOKHIN TURNED TO THE PRINCE BUT WE DAREN'T. THEN WHY WAS IT FORBIDDEN. PIERRE PUT THE SAME QUESTION TO PRINCE ANDREW. AT SMOLENSK TOO HE JUDGED CORRECTLY THAT THE FRENCH MIGHT OUTFLANK US AS THEY HAD LARGER FORCES. HE ORDERED US TO RETREAT AND ALL OUR EFFORTS AND LOSSES WENT FOR NOTHING. HE IS UNSUITABLE NOW JUST BECAUSE HE PLANS OUT EVERYTHING VERY THOROUGHLY AND ACCURATELY AS EVERY GERMAN HAS TO HOW CAN I EXPLAIN. SO IT HAS BEEN WITH BARCLAY. WHILE RUSSIA WAS WELL A FOREIGNER COULD SERVE HER AND BE A SPLENDID MINISTER BUT AS SOON AS SHE IS IN DANGER SHE NEEDS ONE OF HER OWN KIN. BUT IN YOUR CLUB THEY HAVE BEEN MAKING HIM OUT A TRAITOR. AND THEY SAY HE'S A SKILLFUL COMMANDER REJOINED PIERRE. I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT IS MEANT BY A SKILLFUL COMMANDER REPLIED PRINCE ANDREW IRONICALLY. A SKILLFUL COMMANDER REPLIED PIERRE. PIERRE LOOKED AT HIM IN SURPRISE. AND YET THEY SAY THAT WAR IS LIKE A GAME OF CHESS HE REMARKED. THE RELATIVE STRENGTH OF BODIES OF TROOPS CAN NEVER BE KNOWN TO ANYONE. SUCCESS NEVER DEPENDS AND NEVER WILL DEPEND ON POSITION OR EQUIPMENT OR EVEN ON NUMBERS AND LEAST OF ALL ON POSITION BUT ON WHAT THEN. ON THE FEELING THAT IS IN ME AND IN HIM HE POINTED TO TIMOKHIN AND IN EACH SOLDIER. PRINCE ANDREW GLANCED AT TIMOKHIN WHO LOOKED AT HIS COMMANDER IN ALARM AND BEWILDERMENT. A BATTLE IS WON BY THOSE WHO FIRMLY RESOLVE TO WIN IT. WHY DID WE LOSE THE BATTLE AT AUSTERLITZ. WE'VE LOST SO LET US RUN AND WE RAN. BUT TOMORROW WE SHAN'T SAY IT. THAT'S ALL NONSENSE THERE'S NOTHING OF THE KIND. BUT WHAT AWAITS US TOMORROW. THE FACT IS THAT THOSE MEN WITH WHOM YOU HAVE RIDDEN ROUND THE POSITION NOT ONLY DO NOT HELP MATTERS BUT HINDER. PRINCE ANDREW REPEATED. AND IF YOU LIKE I WILL TELL YOU THAT WHATEVER HAPPENS AND WHATEVER MUDDLES THOSE AT THE TOP MAY MAKE WE SHALL WIN TOMORROW'S BATTLE. THERE NOW YOUR EXCELLENCY

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+THAT'S THE TRUTH THE REAL TRUTH SAID TIMOKHIN. WHO WOULD SPARE HIMSELF NOW. THE SOLDIERS IN MY BATTALION BELIEVE ME WOULDN'T DRINK THEIR VODKA. IT'S NOT THE DAY FOR THAT THEY SAY. ALL WERE SILENT THE OFFICERS ROSE. PRINCE ANDREW WENT OUT OF THE SHED WITH THEM GIVING FINAL ORDERS TO THE ADJUTANT. YES YES ANSWERED PRINCE ANDREW ABSENTLY. ONE THING I WOULD DO IF I HAD THE POWER HE BEGAN AGAIN I WOULD NOT TAKE PRISONERS. WHY TAKE PRISONERS IT'S CHIVALRY. THE FRENCH HAVE DESTROYED MY HOME AND ARE ON THEIR WAY TO DESTROY MOSCOW THEY HAVE OUTRAGED AND ARE OUTRAGING ME EVERY MOMENT THEY ARE MY ENEMIES. IN MY OPINION THEY ARE ALL CRIMINALS. AND SO THINKS TIMOKHIN AND THE WHOLE ARMY. THEY SHOULD BE EXECUTED. SINCE THEY ARE MY FOES THEY CANNOT BE MY FRIENDS WHATEVER MAY HAVE BEEN SAID AT TILSIT. YES YES MUTTERED PIERRE LOOKING WITH SHINING EYES AT PRINCE ANDREW. THE QUESTION THAT HAD PERTURBED PIERRE ON THE MOZHAYSK HILL AND ALL THAT DAY NOW SEEMED TO HIM QUITE CLEAR AND COMPLETELY SOLVED. HE NOW UNDERSTOOD THE WHOLE MEANING AND IMPORTANCE OF THIS WAR AND OF THE IMPENDING BATTLE. AS IT IS WE HAVE PLAYED AT WAR THAT'S WHAT'S VILE. THEY TALK TO US OF THE RULES OF WAR OF CHIVALRY OF FLAGS OF TRUCE OF MERCY TO THE UNFORTUNATE AND SO ON IT'S ALL RUBBISH. THEY PLUNDER OTHER PEOPLE'S HOUSES ISSUE FALSE PAPER MONEY AND WORST OF ALL THEY KILL MY CHILDREN AND MY FATHER AND THEN TALK OF RULES OF WAR AND MAGNANIMITY TO FOES. TAKE NO PRISONERS BUT KILL AND BE KILLED. PRINCE ANDREW WHO HAD THOUGHT IT WAS ALL THE SAME TO HIM WHETHER OR NOT MOSCOW WAS TAKEN AS SMOLENSK HAD BEEN WAS SUDDENLY CHECKED IN HIS SPEECH BY AN UNEXPECTED CRAMP IN HIS THROAT. HE PACED UP AND DOWN A FEW TIMES IN SILENCE BUT HIS EYES GLITTERED FEVERISHLY AND HIS LIPS QUIVERED AS HE BEGAN SPEAKING. IF THERE WAS NONE OF THIS MAGNANIMITY IN WAR WE SHOULD GO TO WAR ONLY WHEN IT WAS WORTH WHILE GOING TO CERTAIN DEATH AS NOW. AND WHEN THERE WAS A WAR LIKE THIS ONE IT WOULD BE WAR. AND THEN THE DETERMINATION OF THE TROOPS WOULD BE QUITE DIFFERENT. WE OUGHT TO ACCEPT THIS TERRIBLE NECESSITY STERNLY AND SERIOUSLY. IT ALL LIES IN THAT GET RID OF FALSEHOOD AND LET WAR BE WAR AND NOT A GAME. AS IT IS NOW WAR IS THE FAVORITE PASTIME OF THE IDLE AND FRIVOLOUS. WHAT IS NEEDED FOR SUCCESS IN WARFARE. WHAT ARE THE HABITS OF THE MILITARY. AND IN SPITE OF ALL THIS IT IS THE HIGHEST CLASS RESPECTED BY EVERYONE. HOW DOES GOD ABOVE LOOK AT THEM AND HEAR THEM. I SEE THAT I HAVE BEGUN TO UNDERSTAND TOO MUCH. AND IT DOESN'T DO FOR MAN TO TASTE OF THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL AH WELL IT'S NOT FOR LONG HE ADDED. HOWEVER YOU'RE SLEEPY AND IT'S TIME FOR ME TO SLEEP. GO BACK TO GORKI SAID PRINCE ANDREW SUDDENLY. OH NO PIERRE REPLIED LOOKING AT PRINCE ANDREW WITH FRIGHTENED COMPASSIONATE EYES. GO GO BEFORE A BATTLE ONE MUST HAVE ONE'S SLEEP OUT REPEATED PRINCE ANDREW. HE CAME QUICKLY UP TO PIERRE AND EMBRACED AND KISSED HIM. NO HE DOES NOT WANT IT PIERRE CONCLUDED. AND I KNOW THAT THIS IS OUR LAST MEETING. HE SIGHED DEEPLY AND RODE BACK TO GORKI. HE CLOSED HIS EYES

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+ONE PICTURE SUCCEEDED ANOTHER IN HIS IMAGINATION. ON ONE OF THEM HE DWELT LONG AND JOYFULLY

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+HIS MAJOR DOMO CAME IN A SECOND TIME TO SAY THAT THE FRENCHMAN WHO HAD BROUGHT THE LETTER FROM THE COUNTESS WAS VERY ANXIOUS TO SEE HIM IF ONLY FOR A MINUTE AND THAT SOMEONE FROM BAZDEEV'S WIDOW HAD CALLED TO ASK PIERRE TO TAKE CHARGE OF HER HUSBAND'S BOOKS AS SHE HERSELF WAS LEAVING FOR THE COUNTRY. OH YES IN A MINUTE WAIT OR NO NO OF COURSE GO AND SAY I WILL COME DIRECTLY PIERRE REPLIED TO THE MAJOR DOMO. THERE WAS NO ONE IN THE PASSAGE. HE WENT ALONG THE WHOLE LENGTH OF THIS PASSAGE TO THE STAIRS AND FROWNING AND RUBBING HIS FOREHEAD WITH BOTH HANDS WENT DOWN AS FAR AS THE FIRST LANDING. THE HALL PORTER WAS STANDING AT THE FRONT DOOR. FROM THE LANDING WHERE PIERRE STOOD THERE WAS A SECOND STAIRCASE LEADING TO THE BACK ENTRANCE. HE WENT DOWN THAT STAIRCASE AND OUT INTO THE YARD NO ONE HAD SEEN HIM. WHEN HE FELT HE WAS BEING LOOKED AT HE BEHAVED LIKE AN OSTRICH WHICH HIDES ITS HEAD IN A BUSH IN ORDER NOT TO BE SEEN HE HUNG HIS HEAD AND QUICKENING HIS PACE WENT DOWN THE STREET. HE HIRED THE FIRST CAB HE MET AND TOLD THE DRIVER TO GO TO THE PATRIARCH'S PONDS WHERE THE WIDOW BAZDEEV'S HOUSE WAS. WILL YOU STEP INTO THE STUDY PIERRE NODDED. PIERRE WENT INTO THAT GLOOMY STUDY WHICH HE HAD ENTERED WITH SUCH TREPIDATION IN HIS BENEFACTOR'S LIFETIME. GERASIM OPENED ONE OF THE SHUTTERS AND LEFT THE ROOM ON TIPTOE. THIS WAS THE AUTHENTIC SCOTCH ACTS WITH BAZDEEV'S NOTES AND EXPLANATIONS. HE SAT DOWN AT THE DUSTY WRITING TABLE AND HAVING LAID THE MANUSCRIPTS BEFORE HIM OPENED THEM OUT CLOSED THEM FINALLY PUSHED THEM AWAY AND RESTING HIS HEAD ON HIS HAND SANK INTO MEDITATION. THAT SAME EVENING WITHOUT EVEN ASKING HIMSELF WHAT THEY WERE WANTED FOR HE PROCURED A COACHMAN'S COAT AND CAP FOR PIERRE AND PROMISED TO GET HIM THE PISTOL NEXT DAY. MAKAR ALEXEEVICH CAME TWICE THAT EVENING SHUFFLING ALONG IN HIS GALOSHES AS FAR AS THE DOOR AND STOPPED AND LOOKED INGRATIATINGLY AT PIERRE

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+THE MAIN ARMY WAS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF MOSCOW OR BEYOND IT. AT THAT VERY TIME AT TEN IN THE MORNING OF THE SECOND OF SEPTEMBER NAPOLEON WAS STANDING AMONG HIS TROOPS ON THE POKLONNY HILL LOOKING AT THE PANORAMA SPREAD OUT BEFORE HIM. AT TEN IN THE MORNING OF THE SECOND OF SEPTEMBER THIS WEATHER STILL HELD. THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE MORNING WAS MAGICAL. BUT MY CLEMENCY IS ALWAYS READY TO DESCEND UPON THE VANQUISHED. I MUST BE MAGNANIMOUS AND TRULY GREAT. BUT NO IT CAN'T BE TRUE THAT I AM IN MOSCOW HE SUDDENLY THOUGHT. YET HERE SHE IS LYING AT MY FEET WITH HER GOLDEN DOMES AND CROSSES SCINTILLATING AND TWINKLING IN THE SUNSHINE. BUT I SHALL SPARE HER. ON THE ANCIENT MONUMENTS OF BARBARISM AND DESPOTISM I WILL INSCRIBE GREAT WORDS OF JUSTICE AND MERCY. IT SEEMED TO NAPOLEON THAT THE CHIEF IMPORT OF WHAT WAS TAKING PLACE LAY IN THE PERSONAL STRUGGLE BETWEEN HIMSELF AND ALEXANDER. FROM THE HEIGHT OF THE KREMLIN YES THERE IS THE KREMLIN YES I WILL GIVE THEM JUST LAWS I WILL TEACH THEM THE MEANING OF TRUE CIVILIZATION I WILL MAKE GENERATIONS OF BOYARS REMEMBER THEIR CONQUEROR WITH LOVE. I WILL TELL THE DEPUTATION THAT I DID NOT AND DO NOT DESIRE WAR THAT I HAVE WAGED WAR ONLY AGAINST THE FALSE POLICY OF THEIR COURT THAT I LOVE AND RESPECT ALEXANDER AND THAT IN MOSCOW I WILL ACCEPT TERMS OF PEACE WORTHY OF MYSELF AND OF MY PEOPLE. I DO NOT WISH TO UTILIZE THE FORTUNES OF WAR TO HUMILIATE AN HONORED MONARCH. HE WILL HAVE TO BE TOLD ALL THE SAME SAID SOME GENTLEMEN OF THE SUITE BUT GENTLEMEN. THE POSITION WAS THE MORE AWKWARD BECAUSE THE EMPEROR MEDITATING UPON HIS MAGNANIMOUS PLANS WAS PACING PATIENTLY UP AND DOWN BEFORE THE OUTSPREAD MAP OCCASIONALLY GLANCING ALONG THE ROAD TO MOSCOW FROM UNDER HIS LIFTED HAND WITH A BRIGHT AND PROUD SMILE. A SINGLE REPORT OF A SIGNALING GUN FOLLOWED AND THE TROOPS WHO WERE ALREADY SPREAD OUT ON DIFFERENT SIDES OF MOSCOW MOVED INTO THE CITY THROUGH TVER KALUGA AND DOROGOMILOV GATES. FASTER AND FASTER VYING WITH ONE ANOTHER THEY MOVED AT THE DOUBLE OR AT A TROT VANISHING AMID THE CLOUDS OF DUST THEY RAISED AND MAKING THE AIR RING WITH A DEAFENING ROAR OF MINGLING SHOUTS

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+HE TARRIED AT GENISHAU A FEW DAYS AND CAME UP TO GARDOW WHERE I THEN RESIDED HE WAS APPARENTLY WITHOUT ANY BUSINESS THAT WOULD SUPPORT HIM BUT HE SOON BECAME ACQUAINTED WITH MY SON THOMAS WITH WHOM HE HUNTED FOR A LONG TIME AND MADE HIS HOME WITH HIM AT MY HOUSE WINTER CAME ON AND HE CONTINUED HIS STAY. WHEN ALLEN CAME TO MY HOUSE I HAD A WHITE MAN LIVING ON MY LAND WHO HAD A NANTICOKE SQUAW FOR HIS WIFE WITH WHOM HE HAD LIVED VERY PEACEABLY FOR HE WAS A MODERATE MAN COMMONLY AND SHE WAS A KIND GENTLE CUNNING CREATURE. THE ENRAGED HUSBAND WELL KNOWING THAT HE SHOULD FEEL A BLOW IF HE WAITED TO HEAR THE ORDER REPEATED INSTANTLY RETREATED AND WENT DOWN THE RIVER TO HIS CATTLE. WE PROTECTED THE POOR NANTICOKE WOMAN AND GAVE HER VICTUALS AND ALLEN SYMPATHIZED WITH HER IN HER MISFORTUNES TILL SPRING WHEN HER HUSBAND CAME TO HER ACKNOWLEDGED HIS FORMER ERRORS AND THAT HE HAD ABUSED HER WITHOUT A CAUSE PROMISED A REFORMATION AND SHE RECEIVED HIM WITH EVERY MARK OF A RENEWAL OF HER AFFECTION. THEY WENT HOME LOVINGLY AND SOON AFTER REMOVED TO NIAGARA. THE SAME SPRING ALLEN COMMENCED WORKING MY FLATS AND CONTINUED TO LABOR THERE TILL AFTER THE PEACE IN SEVENTEEN EIGHTY THREE. THE INDIANS WERE SOON ANSWERED BY THE AMERICAN OFFICER THAT THE WAMPUM WAS CORDIALLY ACCEPTED AND THAT A CONTINUANCE OF PEACE WAS ARDENTLY WISHED FOR. THEY HOWEVER RESOLVED TO PUNISH ALLEN FOR HIS OFFICIOUSNESS IN MEDDLING WITH THEIR NATIONAL AFFAIRS BY PRESENTING THE SACRED WAMPUM WITHOUT THEIR KNOWLEDGE AND WENT ABOUT DEVISING MEANS FOR HIS DETECTION. THE PARTY CAME ON BUT BEFORE IT ARRIVED AT GARDOW ALLEN GOT NEWS OF ITS APPROACH AND FLED FOR SAFETY LEAVING THE HORSE AND GOODS THAT HE HAD BROUGHT FROM PHILADELPHIA AN EASY PREY TO HIS ENEMIES. HE HAD NOT BEEN LONG ABSENT WHEN THEY ARRIVED AT GARDOW WHERE THEY MADE DILIGENT SEARCH FOR HIM TILL THEY WERE SATISFIED THAT THEY COULD NOT FIND HIM AND THEN SEIZED THE EFFECTS WHICH HE HAD LEFT AND RETURNED TO NIAGARA. MY SON THOMAS WENT WITH THEM WITH ALLEN'S HORSE AND CARRIED THE GOODS. ALLEN ON FINDING THAT HIS ENEMIES HAD GONE CAME BACK TO MY HOUSE WHERE HE LIVED AS BEFORE BUT OF HIS RETURN THEY WERE SOON NOTIFIED AT NIAGARA AND NETTLES WHO MARRIED PRISCILLA RAMSAY WITH A SMALL PARTY OF INDIANS CAME ON TO TAKE HIM. HE HOWEVER BY SOME MEANS FOUND THAT THEY WERE NEAR AND GAVE ME HIS BOX OF MONEY AND TRINKETS TO KEEP SAFELY TILL HE CALLED FOR IT AND AGAIN TOOK TO THE WOODS. NETTLES CAME ON DETERMINED AT ALL EVENTS TO TAKE HIM BEFORE HE WENT BACK AND IN ORDER TO ACCOMPLISH HIS DESIGN HE WITH HIS INDIANS HUNTED IN THE DAY TIME AND LAY BY AT NIGHT AT MY HOUSE AND IN THAT WAY THEY PRACTISED FOR A NUMBER OF DAYS. ALLEN WATCHED THE MOTION OF HIS PURSUERS AND EVERY NIGHT AFTER THEY HAD GONE TO REST CAME HOME AND GOT SOME FOOD AND THEN RETURNED TO HIS RETREAT. IT WAS IN THE FALL AND THE WEATHER WAS COLD AND RAINY SO THAT HE SUFFERED EXTREMELY. SOME NIGHTS HE SAT IN MY CHAMBER TILL NEARLY DAY BREAK WHILE HIS ENEMIES WERE BELOW AND WHEN THE TIME ARRIVED I ASSISTED HIM TO ESCAPE UNNOTICED. NETTLES AT LENGTH ABANDONED THE CHASE WENT HOME AND ALLEN ALL IN TATTERS CAME IN. BY RUNNING IN THE WOODS HIS CLOTHING HAD BECOME TORN INTO RAGS SO THAT HE WAS IN A SUFFERING CONDITION ALMOST NAKED. ALLEN MADE HIS TROWSERS HIMSELF AND THEN BUILT A RAFT ON WHICH HE WENT DOWN THE RIVER TO HIS OWN PLACE AT MOUNT MORRIS. ABOUT THAT TIME HE MARRIED A SQUAW WHOSE NAME WAS SALLY. FORTUNATELY FOR HIM IT SO HAPPENED THAT JUST AS THEY ARRIVED AT THE FORT A HOUSE TOOK FIRE AND HIS KEEPERS ALL LEFT HIM TO SAVE THE BUILDING IF POSSIBLE

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+SHE WEARS HER NEW GOWN IN A DOWDY MANNER AND ONE CAN READ HER FACE EASILY. THERE'S LITTLE DANGER IN THIS QUARTER I'M SURE SO I MAY AS WELL BE FRIENDS WITH THE POOR CHILD. AH WHY NOT. ENQUIRED THE OTHER AS IF IN WONDER. BETH HESITATED. SHE ASKED NO. NOR I. THE LETTER ASKING ME TO VISIT HER WAS THE FIRST I HAVE EVER RECEIVED FROM HER. EVEN MY MOTHER HER OWN SISTER DOES NOT CORRESPOND WITH HER. BUT SINCE SHE ASKED ME TO VISIT HER WE JUDGED SHE HAD SOFTENED AND MIGHT WISH TO BECOME FRIENDLY AND SO I ACCEPTED THE INVITATION. I HAD NO IDEA YOU WERE ALSO INVITED. SURELY TWO GIRLS WILL HAVE A BETTER TIME IN THIS LONELY OLD PLACE THAN ONE COULD HAVE ALONE. WELL QUERIED LOUISE EVIDENTLY AMUSED IT'S PLAIN TO ME THAT AUNT JANE HAS INVITED US HERE TO CHOOSE WHICH ONE OF US SHALL INHERIT HER MONEY AND ELMHURST. OH YES SHE HAS CORRECTED LOUISE. YOU MEAN PATRICIA DOYLE YES. I HAVEN'T THE FAINTEST IDEA. LOUISE SPOKE AS CALMLY AS IF SHE HAD NOT MAILED PATRICIA'S DEFIANT LETTER TO AUNT JANE OR DISCOVERED HER COUSIN'S IDENTITY IN THE LITTLE HAIR DRESSER FROM MADAME BORNE'S ESTABLISHMENT. HAS AUNT JANE MENTIONED HER CONTINUED BETH. THEN WE MAY CONCLUDE SHE'S LEFT OUT OF THE ARRANGEMENT SAID BETH CALMLY. YOU'LL FIGHT FOR YOUR CHANCE AND FIGHT MIGHTY HARD. WHY MY DEAR COUSIN I DON'T WANT AUNT JANE'S MONEY. MY MOTHER AND I ARE AMPLY PROVIDED FOR AND I AM ONLY HERE TO FIND REST FROM MY SOCIAL DUTIES AND TO GET ACQUAINTED WITH MY DEAD FATHER'S SISTER THAT IS ALL. OH. NOW TELL ME SOMETHING ABOUT YOURSELF AND YOUR PEOPLE ARE YOU POOR. POOR AS POVERTY SAID BETH GLOOMILY. MY FATHER TEACHES MUSIC AND MOTHER SCOLDS HIM CONTINUALLY FOR NOT BEING ABLE TO EARN ENOUGH MONEY TO KEEP OUT OF DEBT. HASN'T AUNT JANE HELPED YOU. WE'VE NEVER SEEN A CENT OF HER MONEY ALTHOUGH FATHER HAS TRIED AT TIMES TO BORROW ENOUGH TO HELP HIM OUT OF HIS DIFFICULTIES. SHE SEEMS LIKE SUCH A DEAR KINDLY OLD LADY SAID LOUISE MUSINGLY. I EVEN KISSED HER WHEN SHE ASKED ME TO AND IT SENT A SHIVER ALL DOWN MY BACK. LOUISE LAUGHED WITH GENUINE AMUSEMENT. YOU MUST DISSEMBLE COUSIN ELIZABETH SHE ADVISED AND TEACH OUR AUNT TO LOVE YOU. FOR MY PART I AM FOND OF EVERYONE AND IT DELIGHTS ME TO FUSS AROUND INVALIDS AND ASSIST THEM. I OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN A TRAINED NURSE YOU KNOW BUT OF COURSE THERE'S NO NECESSITY OF MY EARNING A LIVING. I SUPPOSE NOT SAID BETH. YOU SAY YOU LIKE TO CARE FOR INVALIDS AND I DON'T. BETH'S FACE GREW HARD AGAIN. YOU'RE DECEIVING ME SHE DECLARED ANGRILY. YOU'RE TRYING TO MAKE ME THINK YOU DON'T WANT ELMHURST WHEN YOU'RE AS ANXIOUS TO GET IT AS I AM. THEY CALL ME BETH SULLENLY. THEN MY DEAR BETH LET ME BEG YOU NOT TO BORROW TROUBLE OR TO DOUBT ONE WHO WISHES TO BE YOUR FRIEND. I COULDN'T LIVE IN THIS OUT OF THE WAY CORNER OF THE WORLD YOU KNOW. BUT SUPPOSE SHE LEAVES IT TO YOU PERSISTED BETH. YOU WOULDN'T REFUSE IT I IMAGINE. LOUISE SEEMED TO MEDITATE. BUT I'LL NOT INTERFERE IN ANY WAY WITH YOUR CHANCES AND I'LL PROMISE TO SING YOUR PRAISES TO OUR AUNT PERSISTENTLY. IS THERE MUCH MORE ASKED BETH. I HAVEN'T ANY LIST OF AUNT JANE'S POSSESSIONS SO I DON'T KNOW BUT YOU SHALL HAVE ELMHURST IF I GET IT BECAUSE THE PLACE WOULD BE OF NO USE TO ME. IT'S A MAGNIFICENT ESTATE SAID BETH LOOKING AT HER COUSIN DOUBTFULLY. NOW SHALL WE BE FRIENDS SHE ASKED LIGHTLY. NOW WILL YOU ABANDON ALL THOSE NAUGHTY SUSPICIONS AND LET ME LOVE YOU. BETH HESITATED. THE SUGGESTION SEEMED PREPOSTEROUS. SUCH GENEROSITY SAVORED OF PLAY ACTING AND LOUISE'S MANNER WAS TOO AIRY TO BE GENUINE

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+IN ONE CORNER OF THE LITTLE ROOM KENNETH FORBES SQUATTED UPON A BENCH WITH AN EMPTY PINE BOX HELD CARELESSLY IN HIS LAP. WHILE DUNCAN WORKED THE BOY WAS BUSY WITH HIS PENCIL BUT NEITHER HAD SPOKEN FOR AT LEAST A HALF HOUR. FINALLY THE AGED COACHMAN WITHOUT LOOKING UP ENQUIRED. WHAT YOUNG LADIES. THE BOY LOOKED ASTONISHED AND LEANED OVER THE BOX IN HIS LAP EAGERLY. HOW MANY DON TWO LAD. GIRLS WITH AN ACCENT OF HORROR. HE DID NOT KNOW ONE OF THEM BY NAME AND CARED LITTLE HOW MUCH THEY MIGHT SPECULATE UPON HIS PECULIAR POSITION AT THE BIG HOUSE. THEN RIDING SLOWLY UP THE HEDGE BORDERED ROAD HIS TROUBLES ONCE MORE ASSAILED HIM AND HE WONDERED IF THERE WAS NOT SOME SPOT UPON THE BROAD EARTH TO WHICH HE COULD FLY FOR RETIREMENT UNTIL THE GIRLS HAD LEFT ELMHURST FOR GOOD. NORA SHIED AND HE LOOKED UP TO DISCOVER THAT HE HAD NEARLY RUN DOWN A PEDESTRIAN A STOUT LITTLE MAN WITH A BUNDLE UNDER HIS ARM WHO HELD UP ONE HAND AS IF TO ARREST HIM. SORRY TO TROUBLE YOU SIR REMARKED THE LITTLE MAN IN A CHEERY VOICE BUT I AIN'T JUST CERTAIN ABOUT MY WAY. WHERE DO YOU WANT TO GO ASKED THE BOY. TO JANE MERRICK'S PLACE THEY CALL IT ELMHURST I GUESS. IT'S STRAIGHT AHEAD SAID KENNETH AS THE MARE WALKED ON. HIS QUESTIONER ALSO STARTED AND PACED BESIDE HIM FAR FROM HERE. HE SPOKE WITH AN EASY FAMILIARITY THAT MADE IT DIFFICULT NOT TO RESPOND WITH EQUAL FRANK CORDIALITY AND THERE WAS A SHREWD EXPRESSION UPON HIS WRINKLED SMOOTH SHAVEN FACE THAT STAMPED HIM A MAN WHO HAD SEEN LIFE IN MANY OF ITS PHASES. KNOW JANE MERRICK ASKED THE STRANGER. THE BOY NODDED LIKE HER. I HATE HER HE SAID SAVAGELY. THE MAN LAUGHED A BIT UNEASILY. THEN IT'S THE SAME JANE AS EVER HE RESPONDED WITH A SHAKE OF HIS GRIZZLED HEAD. DO YOU KNOW I SORT O HOPED SHE'D REFORMED AND I'D BE GLAD TO SEE HER AGAIN THEY TELL ME SHE'S GOT MONEY. THE BOY LOOKED AT HIM IN SURPRISE. SHE OWNS ELMHURST AND HAS MORTGAGES ON A DOZEN FARMS AROUND HERE AND PROPERTY IN NEW YORK AND THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN THE BANK HE SAID. AUNT JANE'S RICH AUNT JANE. ECHOED THE MAN QUICKLY WHAT'S YOUR NAME LAD. KENNETH FORBES A SHAKE OF THE HEAD. SHE'S NEVER MARRIED HAS SHE. NO SHE WAS ENGAGED TO MY UNCLE TOM WHO OWNED ELMHURST. SO WHEN MY PARENTS DIED AUNT JANE TOOK ME FOR UNCLE TOM'S SAKE AND KEEPS ME OUT OF CHARITY. I SEE QUITE SOBERLY THIS TIME. THEY DID NOT SPEAK AGAIN FOR SOME MOMENTS. FINALLY THE STRANGER ASKED. ARE JANE'S SISTERS LIVING JULIA AND VIOLET. HA WHO ARE THEY. THE STRANGER WHISTLED. DON'T LIKE GIRLS I TAKE IT. NO I HATE THEM. ANOTHER LONG PAUSE THEN THE BOY SUDDENLY TURNED QUESTIONER. YOU KNOW AUNT MISS MERRICK SIR. I USED TO WHEN WE WERE BOTH YOUNGER. ANY RELATION SIR. JUST A BROTHER THAT'S ALL. KENNETH STOPPED SHORT AND THE MARE STOPPED AND THE LITTLE MAN WITH A WHIMSICAL SMILE AT THE BOY'S ASTONISHMENT ALSO STOPPED. SHE HAD TWO BUT WILL'S DEAD YEARS AGO I'M TOLD I'M THE OTHER. JOHN MERRICK THAT'S ME. I WENT WEST A LONG TIME AGO BEFORE YOU WERE BORN I GUESS. YOU WERE THE TINSMITH. THE SAME BAD PENNIES ALWAYS RETURN THEY SAY. I'VE COME BACK TO LOOK UP THE FAMILY AND FIND HOW MANY ARE LEFT. BUT I'M SORRY YOU CAME TO AUNT JANE FIRST WHY. THEY KEPT TRACK OF HER BECAUSE SHE SUDDENLY BECAME RICH AND A GREAT LADY AND THAT WAS A SURPRISING THING TO HAPPEN TO A MERRICK. WE'VE ALWAYS BEEN A POOR LOT YOU KNOW. THE BOY GLANCED AT THE BUNDLE PITYINGLY AND THE LITTLE MAN CAUGHT THE LOOK AND SMILED HIS SWEET CHEERY SMILE

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+THE SAGITTARY CORRESPONDENCE COULD NOT LAST FOR LONG. THEY ARE BUT LUKEWARM LOVERS WHO CAN CONTENT THEMSELVES WITH A DIALOGUE CARRIED ON AT BOWSHOT DISTANCE. HEARTS BRIMFUL OF PASSION MUST BEAT AND BURN TOGETHER IN CLOSE PROXIMITY EACH FEELING THE PULSATION OF THE OTHER. IF THERE BE AN ELYSIUM ON EARTH IT IS THIS. MAURICE GERALD WAS NOT THE MAN NOR LOUISE POINDEXTER THE WOMAN TO SHUN SUCH A CONSUMMATION. HIS OWN DAUGHTER HIS ONLY DAUGHTER OF THE BEST BLOOD OF SOUTHERN ARISTOCRACY BEAUTIFUL ACCOMPLISHED EVERYTHING TO SECURE HIM A SPLENDID ALLIANCE HOLDING NIGHTLY ASSIGNATION WITH A HORSE HUNTER. COULD HE HAVE BUT DREAMT IT WHEN SLUMBERING UPON HIS SOFT COUCH THE DREAM WOULD HAVE STARTLED HIM FROM HIS SLEEP LIKE THE CALL OF THE ETERNAL TRUMPET. HE COULD WELL CONCEDE SO MUCH TO HER CAPRICE SINCE HER STAYING AT HOME COULD BE NO DISADVANTAGE TO THE CAUSE THAT HAD PROMPTED HIM TO THE STERN COUNSEL. HER READY OBEDIENCE HAD ALMOST INFLUENCED HIM TO REGRET THE PROHIBITION. IT IS ALREADY KNOWN THAT THIS ROAD PASSED THE HACIENDA OF CASA DEL CORVO AT SOME DISTANCE FROM THE HOUSE AND ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE RIVER. IT IS ALSO KNOWN THAT AT THE SAME PLACE IT TRAVERSED A STRETCH OF OPEN PRAIRIE WITH ONLY A PIECE OF COPSEWOOD MIDWAY BETWEEN TWO EXTENSIVE TRACTS OF CHAPPARAL. ON REACHING THE COPSE HE DISMOUNTED LED HIS HORSE IN AMONG THE UNDERWOOD HITCHED HIM BY LOOPING HIS BRIDLE REIN AROUND THE TOPMOST TWIGS OF AN ELASTIC BOUGH THEN DETACHING A LONG ROPE OF TWISTED HORSEHAIR FROM THE HORN OF HIS SADDLE AND INSERTING HIS ARM INTO ITS COIL HE GLIDED OUT TO THE EDGE OF THE ISLAND ON THAT SIDE THAT LAY TOWARDS THE HACIENDA. BEFORE FORSAKING THE SHADOW OF THE COPSE HE CAST A GLANCE TOWARDS THE SKY AND AT THE MOON SAILING SUPREMELY OVER IT. IT WAS A GLANCE OF INQUIRY ENDING IN A LOOK OF CHAGRIN WITH SOME MUTTERED PHRASES THAT RENDERED IT MORE EMPHATIC. NO USE WAITING FOR THAT BEAUTY TO GO TO BED. SHE'S MADE UP HER MIND SHE WON'T GO HOME TILL MORNING HA HA. THE DROLL CONCEIT WHICH HAS SO OFT AMUSED THE NOCTURNAL INEBRIATE OF GREAT CITIES APPEARED TO PRODUCE A LIKE AFFECT UPON THE NIGHT PATROLLER OF THE PRAIRIE AND FOR A MOMENT THE SHADOW LATE DARKENING HIS BROW DISAPPEARED. IT RETURNED ANON AS HE STOOD GAZING ACROSS THE OPEN SPACE THAT SEPARATED HIM FROM THE RIVER BOTTOM BEYOND WHICH LAY THE HACIENDA OF CASA DEL CORVO CLEARLY OUTLINED UPON THE OPPOSITE BLUFF IF THERE SHOULD BE ANY ONE STIRRING ABOUT THE PLACE. IT'S NOT LIKELY AT THIS HOUR UNLESS IT BE THE OWNER OF A BAD CONSCIENCE WHO CAN'T SLEEP. TROTH THERE'S ONE SUCH WITHIN THOSE WALLS. IF HE BE ABROAD THERE'S A GOOD CHANCE OF HIS SEEING ME ON THE OPEN GROUND NOT THAT I SHOULD CARE A STRAW IF IT WERE ONLY MYSELF TO BE COMPROMISED. BY SAINT PATRICK I SEE NO ALTERNATIVE BUT RISK IT. IT'S NO USE WAITING UPON THE MOON DEUCE TAKE HER. SHE DON'T GO DOWN FOR HOURS AND THERE'S NOT THE SIGN OF A CLOUD IT WON'T DO TO KEEP HER WAITING. NO I MUST CHANCE IT IN THE CLEAR LIGHT HERE GOES. SAYING THIS WITH A SWIFT BUT STEALTHY STEP THE DISMOUNTED HORSEMAN GLIDED ACROSS THE TREELESS TRACT AND SOON READIED THE ESCARPMENT OF THE CLIFF THAT FORMED THE SECOND HEIGHT OF LAND RISING ABOVE THE CHANNEL OF THE LEONA. HE DID NOT STAY TEN SECONDS IN THIS CONSPICUOUS SITUATION BUT BY A PATH THAT ZIGZAGGED DOWN THE BLUFF AND WITH WHICH HE APPEARED FAMILIAR HE DESCENDED TO THE RIVER BOTTOM

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+THE CHURCH BELLS WERE RINGING AND PEOPLE ON THE AVENUE GOING BY TO SERVICE TURNED CURIOUS INQUIRING LOOKS UP AT THE GREAT HOUSE AND THEN WENT ON TALKING OF THE RECENT EVENTS WHICH HAD SO STRANGELY ENTERED INTO AND MADE HISTORY IN THE CITY. ONLY THIS WAS WITH A DIFFERENT ATTITUDE. AND ALL THROUGH HIS IMPASSIONED APPEAL THIS MORNING THERE WAS A NOTE OF SADNESS AND REBUKE AND STERN CONDEMNATION THAT MADE MANY OF THE MEMBERS PALE WITH SELF ACCUSATION OR WITH INWARD ANGER. FOR RAYMOND HAD AWAKENED THAT MORNING TO THE FACT THAT THE CITY HAD GONE FOR LICENSE AFTER ALL. THE RUMOR AT THE RECTANGLE THAT THE SECOND AND THIRD WARDS HAD GONE NO LICENSE PROVED TO BE FALSE. IT WAS TRUE THAT THE VICTORY WAS WON BY A VERY MEAGER MAJORITY. BUT THE RESULT WAS THE SAME AS IF IT HAD BEEN OVERWHELMING. RAYMOND HAD VOTED TO CONTINUE FOR ANOTHER YEAR THE SALOON. THE CHRISTIANS OF RAYMOND STOOD CONDEMNED BY THE RESULT. MORE THAN A HUNDRED PROFESSING CHRISTIAN DISCIPLES HAD FAILED TO GO TO THE POLLS AND MANY MORE THAN THAT NUMBER HAD VOTED WITH THE WHISKEY MEN. FOR THAT HAD BEEN THE FACT IN RAYMOND FOR YEARS THE SALOON RULED. NO ONE DENIED THAT WHAT WOULD JESUS DO. AND THIS WOMAN WHO HAD BEEN BRUTALLY STRUCK DOWN BY THE VERY HAND THAT HAD ASSISTED SO EAGERLY TO WORK HER EARTHLY RUIN WHAT OF HER. ALL THIS WITH A VOICE THAT RANG AND TREMBLED AND BROKE IN SOBS OF ANGUISH FOR THE RESULT DID HENRY MAXWELL POUR OUT UPON HIS PEOPLE THAT SUNDAY MORNING. AND MEN AND WOMEN WEPT AS HE SPOKE. PRESIDENT MARSH SAT THERE HIS USUAL ERECT HANDSOME FIRM BRIGHT SELF CONFIDENT BEARING ALL GONE HIS HEAD BOWED UPON HIS BREAST THE GREAT TEARS ROLLING DOWN HIS CHEEKS UNMINDFUL OF THE FACT THAT NEVER BEFORE HAD HE SHOWN OUTWARD EMOTION IN A PUBLIC SERVICE. NO MAN HAD GIVEN OR SUFFERED MORE TO INFLUENCE PUBLIC OPINION THAT WEEK THAN NORMAN. WHAT IF HE HAD BEGUN TO DO AS JESUS WOULD HAVE DONE LONG AGO. WHO COULD TELL WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN ACCOMPLISHED BY THIS TIME. WHEN HAD THE FIRST CHURCH YIELDED TO SUCH A BAPTISM OF TEARS. WHAT HAD BECOME OF ITS REGULAR PRECISE CONVENTIONAL ORDER OF SERVICE UNDISTURBED BY ANY VULGAR EMOTION AND UNMOVED BY ANY FOOLISH EXCITEMENT. THEY HAD BEEN LIVING SO LONG ON THEIR SURFACE FEELINGS THAT THEY HAD ALMOST FORGOTTEN THE DEEPER WELLS OF LIFE. NOW THAT THEY HAD BROKEN THE SURFACE THE PEOPLE WERE CONVICTED OF THE MEANING OF THEIR DISCIPLESHIP. MISTER MAXWELL DID NOT ASK THIS MORNING FOR VOLUNTEERS TO JOIN THOSE WHO HAD ALREADY PLEDGED TO DO AS JESUS WOULD. BUT WHEN THE CONGREGATION HAD FINALLY GONE AND HE HAD ENTERED THE LECTURE ROOM IT NEEDED BUT A GLANCE TO SHOW HIM THAT THE ORIGINAL COMPANY OF FOLLOWERS HAD BEEN LARGELY INCREASED. THE MEETING WAS TENDER IT GLOWED WITH THE SPIRIT'S PRESENCE IT WAS ALIVE WITH STRONG AND LASTING RESOLVE TO BEGIN A WAR ON THE WHISKEY POWER IN RAYMOND THAT WOULD BREAK ITS REIGN FOREVER. SINCE THE FIRST SUNDAY WHEN THE FIRST COMPANY OF VOLUNTEERS HAD PLEDGED THEMSELVES TO DO AS JESUS WOULD DO THE DIFFERENT MEETINGS HAD BEEN CHARACTERIZED BY DISTINCT IMPULSES OR IMPRESSIONS. TODAY THE ENTIRE FORCE OF THE GATHERING SEEMED TO BE DIRECTED TO THIS ONE LARGE PURPOSE. IT WAS A MEETING FULL OF BROKEN PRAYERS OF CONTRITION OF CONFESSION OF STRONG YEARNING FOR A NEW AND BETTER CITY LIFE. AND ALL THROUGH IT RAN ONE GENERAL CRY FOR DELIVERANCE FROM THE SALOON AND ITS AWFUL CURSE. BUT IF THE FIRST CHURCH WAS DEEPLY STIRRED BY THE EVENTS OF THE LAST WEEK THE RECTANGLE ALSO FELT MOVED STRANGELY IN ITS OWN WAY. EVERY ONE IN THE RECTANGLE KNEW THAT LOREEN WAS AT THIS MOMENT LYING IN THE PAGE MANSION UP ON THE AVENUE. EXAGGERATED REPORTS OF THE MAGNIFICENCE OF THE CASKET HAD ALREADY FURNISHED MATERIAL FOR EAGER GOSSIP. THE RECTANGLE WAS EXCITED TO KNOW THE DETAILS OF THE FUNERAL. THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR DOING SO WERE NOT FREQUENT. GRAY AND HIS WIFE WERE BESIEGED BY INQUIRERS WHO WANTED TO KNOW WHAT LOREEN'S FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES WERE EXPECTED TO DO IN PAYING THEIR LAST RESPECTS TO HER. FOR HER ACQUAINTANCE WAS LARGE AND MANY OF THE RECENT CONVERTS WERE AMONG HER FRIENDS. GRAY HAD GONE UP TO VIRGINIA'S AND AFTER TALKING IT OVER WITH HER AND MAXWELL THE ARRANGEMENT HAD BEEN MADE

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+I AM AND ALWAYS HAVE BEEN OPPOSED TO LARGE PUBLIC FUNERALS SAID GRAY WHOSE COMPLETE WHOLESOME SIMPLICITY OF CHARACTER WAS ONE OF ITS GREAT SOURCES OF STRENGTH BUT THE CRY OF THE POOR CREATURES WHO KNEW LOREEN IS SO EARNEST THAT I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO REFUSE THIS DESIRE TO SEE HER AND PAY HER POOR BODY SOME LAST LITTLE HONOR WHAT DO YOU THINK MISTER MAXWELL. I WILL BE GUIDED BY YOUR JUDGMENT IN THE MATTER. I AM SURE THAT WHATEVER YOU AND MISS PAGE THINK BEST WILL BE RIGHT. I FEEL AS YOU DO REPLIED MISTER MAXWELL. UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES I HAVE A GREAT DISTASTE FOR WHAT SEEMS LIKE DISPLAY AT SUCH TIMES BUT THIS SEEMS DIFFERENT. THE PEOPLE AT THE RECTANGLE WILL NOT COME HERE TO SERVICE. YES SAID VIRGINIA POOR SOUL. I DO NOT KNOW BUT THAT SOME TIME I SHALL KNOW SHE GAVE HER LIFE FOR MINE. WE CERTAINLY CANNOT AND WILL NOT USE THE OCCASION FOR VULGAR DISPLAY. LET HER FRIENDS BE ALLOWED THE GRATIFICATION OF THEIR WISHES I SEE NO HARM IN IT. SO THE ARRANGEMENTS WERE MADE WITH SOME DIFFICULTY FOR THE SERVICE AT THE TENT AND VIRGINIA WITH HER UNCLE AND ROLLIN ACCOMPANIED BY MAXWELL RACHEL AND PRESIDENT MARSH AND THE QUARTET FROM THE FIRST CHURCH WENT DOWN AND WITNESSED ONE OF THE STRANGE THINGS OF THEIR LIVES. IT HAPPENED THAT THAT AFTERNOON A SOMEWHAT NOTED NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT WAS PASSING THROUGH RAYMOND ON HIS WAY TO AN EDITORIAL CONVENTION IN A NEIGHBORING CITY. HE HEARD OF THE CONTEMPLATED SERVICE AT THE TENT AND WENT DOWN. HIS DESCRIPTION OF IT WAS WRITTEN IN A GRAPHIC STYLE THAT CAUGHT THE ATTENTION OF VERY MANY READERS THE NEXT DAY. THE OCCASION WAS CAUSED BY THE KILLING OF A WOMAN DURING AN ELECTION RIOT LAST SATURDAY NIGHT. SHE WAS A COMMON STREET DRUNKARD AND YET THE SERVICES AT THE TENT WERE AS IMPRESSIVE AS ANY I EVER WITNESSED IN A METROPOLITAN CHURCH OVER THE MOST DISTINGUISHED CITIZEN. IN THE FIRST PLACE A MOST EXQUISITE ANTHEM WAS SUNG BY A TRAINED CHOIR. IT STRUCK ME OF COURSE BEING A STRANGER IN THE PLACE WITH CONSIDERABLE ASTONISHMENT TO HEAR VOICES LIKE THOSE ONE NATURALLY EXPECTS TO HEAR ONLY IN GREAT CHURCHES OR CONCERTS AT SUCH A MEETING AS THIS. SHE HAD A MOST WONDERFUL MANNER IN SINGING AND EVERYBODY WAS WEEPING BEFORE SHE HAD SUNG A DOZEN WORDS. I UNDERSTAND MISS WINSLOW SINGS IN THE FIRST CHURCH OF RAYMOND AND COULD PROBABLY COMMAND ALMOST ANY SALARY AS A PUBLIC SINGER. SHE WILL PROBABLY BE HEARD FROM SOON. SUCH A VOICE COULD WIN ITS WAY ANYWHERE. THE SERVICE ASIDE FROM THE SINGING WAS PECULIAR. MISTER MAXWELL SPOKE OF THE FACT THAT THE DEAD WOMAN HAD BEEN FULLY PREPARED TO GO BUT HE SPOKE IN A PECULIARLY SENSITIVE MANNER OF THE EFFECT OF THE LIQUOR BUSINESS ON THE LIVES OF MEN AND WOMEN LIKE THIS ONE. RAYMOND OF COURSE BEING A RAILROAD TOWN AND THE CENTRE OF THE GREAT PACKING INTERESTS FOR THIS REGION IS FULL OF SALOONS. I CAUGHT FROM THE MINISTER'S REMARKS THAT HE HAD ONLY RECENTLY CHANGED HIS VIEWS IN REGARD TO LICENSE HE CERTAINLY MADE A VERY STRIKING ADDRESS AND YET IT WAS IN NO SENSE INAPPROPRIATE FOR A FUNERAL. THEN FOLLOWED WHAT WAS PERHAPS THE QUEER PART OF THIS STRANGE SERVICE. THEN WHILE THE SINGING WAS GOING ON ONE ROW OF WOMEN STOOD UP AND WALKED SLOWLY PAST THE CASKET AND AS THEY WENT BY EACH ONE PLACED A FLOWER OF SOME KIND UPON IT. THEN THEY SAT DOWN AND ANOTHER ROW FILED PAST LEAVING THEIR FLOWERS. ALL THE TIME THE SINGING CONTINUED SOFTLY LIKE RAIN ON A TENT COVER WHEN THE WIND IS GENTLE. IT WAS ONE OF THE SIMPLEST AND AT THE SAME TIME ONE OF THE MOST IMPRESSIVE SIGHTS I EVER WITNESSED. THERE MUST HAVE BEEN A HUNDRED OF THESE WOMEN AND I WAS TOLD MANY OF THEM HAD BEEN CONVERTED AT THE MEETINGS JUST RECENTLY

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+IT WOULD BE SO NICE TO HAVE CHARLOTTE HAVE SOME WITH ME STILL NO ANSWER. SO PHRONSIE WENT UP AND DOWN SILENTLY BY HIS SIDE FOR A FEW MORE TURNS THEN SHE SPOKE AGAIN. DOES IT MAKE YOU SORRY GRANDPAPA DEAR TO HAVE ME WANT CHARLOTTE TO HAVE THE MONEY WITH ME SHE ASKED TIMIDLY. NO NO CHILD ANSWERED MISTER KING HASTILY AND YET I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY. BUT IT WAS NO USE AND MISTER KING CAUGHT HER IN TIME TO SEE THE QUICK DROPS ROLL DOWN PHRONSIE'S CHEEK AND TO FEEL THEM FALL ON HIS HAND OH DEAR ME HE CRIED IN GREAT DISTRESS THERE THERE CHILD YOU SHALL GIVE AWAY THE WHOLE IF YOU WISH I'VE ENOUGH FOR YOU WITHOUT IT ONLY DON'T CRY PHRONSIE. IT SHALL BE JUST A SECRET BETWEEN YOU AND ME. I WON'T GRANDPAPA SAID PHRONSIE OBEDIENTLY AND PATTING HIS BROAD BACK WITH HER SOFT HAND. AND MEANTIME SAID MISTER KING QUITE SATISFIED WHY CHARLOTTE IS HAVING PRETTY GOOD TIMES I THINK POLLY IS LOOKING OUT FOR THAT. POLLY IS MAKING HER HAVE BEAUTIFUL TIMES SAID PHRONSIE HAPPILY OH VERY BEAUTIFUL TIMES INDEED GRANDPAPA. I WAS WRITING A NOTE TO MISSUS FARGO SAID PHRONSIE PUTTING UP HER LIPS FOR A KISS. SURE AS I CAN BE PHRONSIE SAID OLD MISTER KING SMILING GOOD BY DEAR. CAN'T STOP UNCLE SAID PICKERING HASTILY. BESIDES WHAT WOULD BE THE USE YOU NEVER SEE ANYTHING ENCOURAGING ABOUT ME OR MY CAREER AND I BELIEVE I AM GOING TO THE DOGS. INDEED YOU ARE NOT PICKERING CRIED MISTER CABOT QUICKLY THE COLOR RISING TO HIS CHEEK. THERE THERE MY SISTER'S BOY SHALL NEVER SAY THAT BUT COME IN COME IN. HE LAID HOLD OF PICKERING'S ARM AND GENTLY FORCED HIM INTO THE LITTLE ROOM. NOT TO BE UNGRACIOUS THE YOUNG MAN THREW HIMSELF INTO A CHAIR. WELL WHAT IS IT UNCLE DO OUT WITH IT I'M IN NO MOOD FOR A LECTURE THOUGH THIS MORNING. I'M NOT GOING TO LECTURE YOU MY BOY SAID MISTER CABOT CLOSING THE DOOR THEN GOING TO THE MANTEL TO LEAN ONE ELBOW ON IT A FAVORITE ATTITUDE OF HIS WHILE HE SCANNED HIS NEPHEW. BUT SOMETHING WORSE THAN COMMON HAS COME TO YOU CAN I HELP IN ANY WAY. NO NO DON'T ASK ME EJACULATED PICKERING STRIKING HIS KNEE WITH ONE GLOVE AND TURNING APPREHENSIVELY IN HIS CHAIR. OH HANG IT UNCLE WHY CAN'T YOU LET ME ALONE. HE TURNED AWAY HIS HEAD NOW A BREAK COMING IN HIS VOICE. NOT WORTH IT EITHER HE ADDED RELAPSING INTO HIS GLOOM. THEN HE SHOVED HIS CHAIR SO THAT HE COULD NOT LOOK HIS UNCLE IN THE FACE AND BENT A STEADY GLANCE OUT OF THE WINDOW. MISTER CABOT GAVE A NERVOUS START THAT CARRIED HIM AWAY FROM THE MANTEL A STEP OR TWO. BUT WHEN HE WAS THERE HE FELT SO MUCH WORSE THAT HE SOON GOT BACK INTO THE OLD POSITION. I DON'T SEE PICKERING HE RESUMED WHY YOU SHOULDN'T GET ALONG YOU'RE THROUGH COLLEGE. WHICH IS A WONDER INTERPOLATED PICKERING. WELL I CAN'T SAY BUT THAT I WAS A GOOD DEAL DISTURBED AT ONE TIME SAID MISTER CABOT FRANKLY BUT NEVER MIND THAT NOW YOU ARE THROUGH AND HE HEAVED A SIGH OF RELIEF AND NICELY ESTABLISHED WITH VAN METRE AND CARTWRIGHT IT'S THE BEST LAW FIRM IN THE TOWN PICKERING. MISTER CABOT BROUGHT HIS ELBOW OFF FROM THE MANTEL ENOUGH TO SMITE HIS PALMS TOGETHER SMARTLY IN ENTHUSIASM I GOT YOU IN THERE. I KNOW YOU DID UNCLE SAID PICKERING YOU'VE DONE EVERYTHING THAT'S GOOD. ONLY I REPEAT I'M NOT WORTH IT AND HE DRUMMED ON THE CHAIR ARM. FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE PICKERING CRIED HIS UNCLE DARTING IN FRONT OF THE CHAIR AND ITS RESTLESS OCCUPANT DON'T SAY THAT AGAIN. I'VE BEEN A LAZY DOG ALL MY LIFE AND A GOOD FOR NAUGHT BUT I HOPE I'VE NOT SUNK TO THAT. OH NOTHING NOTHING I'M SURE I DIDN'T MEAN CRIED MISTER CABOT STARTING BACK SUDDENLY IN ASTONISHMENT

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+GOOD HEAVENS IS KATE IN THIS TOO BERTRAM'S VOICE WAS SAVAGE NOW. WELL SHE WROTE A LETTER. HUMPH WELL DEARIE I DON'T KNOW YET WHAT YOU FOUND BUT I DO KNOW YOU WOULDN'T HAVE FOUND IT AT ALL IF IT HADN'T BEEN FOR KATE AND I WISH I HAD HER HERE THIS MINUTE. I WAS SCARED BLUE BILLY WITH JEALOUSY OF ARKWRIGHT. BILLY LAUGHED GAYLY BUT SHE SHIFTED HER POSITION AND DID NOT MEET HER LOVER'S EYES. ARKWRIGHT NONSENSE SHE CRIED. AND YOU NEVER DID THINK FOR A MINUTE BILLY THAT YOU CARED FOR HIM. BERTRAM'S GAZE SEARCHED BILLY'S FACE A LITTLE FEARFULLY. HE HAD NOT BEEN SLOW TO MARK THAT SWIFT LOWERING OF HER EYELIDS. BUT BILLY LOOKED HIM NOW STRAIGHT IN THE FACE IT WAS A LEVEL FRANK GAZE OF ABSOLUTE TRUTH. NEVER DEAR SHE SAID FIRMLY. BILLY WAS SO GLAD BERTRAM HAD TURNED THE QUESTION ON HER LOVE INSTEAD OF ARKWRIGHT'S. THERE HAS NEVER REALLY BEEN ANY ONE BUT YOU. THANK GOD FOR THAT BREATHED BERTRAM AS HE DREW THE BRIGHT HEAD NEARER AND HELD IT CLOSE. AFTER A MINUTE BILLY STIRRED AND SIGHED HAPPILY. AREN'T LOVERS THE BEAT'EM FOR IMAGINING THINGS SHE MURMURED THEY CERTAINLY ARE. YOU SEE I WASN'T IN LOVE WITH MISTER ARKWRIGHT. I SEE I HOPE. AND AND YOU DIDN'T CARE SPECIALLY FOR FOR MISS WINTHROP. BILLY PUT A SOFT FINGER ON HIS LIPS. BERTRAM KISSED THE FINGER AND SUBSIDED HUMPH HE COMMENTED. THERE WAS A LONG SILENCE THEN A LITTLE BREATHLESSLY BILLY ASKED. AND YOU DON'T AFTER ALL LOVE ME JUST TO PAINT. WELL WHAT IS THAT IS THAT KATE TOO DEMANDED BERTRAM GRIMLY. THERE WAS ANOTHER SILENCE THEN SUDDENLY BERTRAM STIRRED. BILLY I'M GOING TO MARRY YOU TO MORROW HE ANNOUNCED DECISIVELY. BILLY LIFTED HER HEAD AND SAT BACK IN PALPITATING DISMAY. I DON'T KNOW AS I CAN TRUST YOU OUT OF MY SIGHT TILL THEN YOU'LL READ SOMETHING OR HEAR SOMETHING OR GET A LETTER FROM KATE AFTER BREAKFAST TO MORROW MORNING THAT WILL SET YOU SAVING ME AGAIN AND I DON'T WANT TO BE SAVED THAT WAY. I'M GOING TO MARRY YOU TO MORROW I'LL GET HE STOPPED SHORT WITH A SUDDEN FROWN CONFOUND THAT LAW I FORGOT. GREAT SCOTT BILLY I'LL HAVE TO TRUST YOU FIVE DAYS AFTER ALL THERE'S A NEW LAW ABOUT THE LICENSE WE'VE GOT TO WAIT FIVE DAYS AND MAYBE MORE COUNTING IN THE NOTICE AND ALL BILLY LAUGHED SOFTLY. FIVE DAYS INDEED SIR. I WONDER IF YOU THINK I CAN GET READY TO BE MARRIED IN FIVE DAYS. DON'T WANT YOU TO GET READY RETORTED BERTRAM PROMPTLY I SAW MARIE GET READY AND I HAD ALL I WANTED OF IT. IF YOU REALLY MUST HAVE ALL THOSE MILES OF TABLECLOTHS AND NAPKINS AND DOILIES AND LACE RUFFLINGS WE'LL DO IT AFTERWARDS NOT BEFORE BUT. BESIDES I NEED YOU TO TAKE CARE OF ME CUT IN BERTRAM CRAFTILY. BERTRAM DO YOU REALLY. THE TENDER GLOW ON BILLY'S FACE TOLD ITS OWN STORY AND BERTRAM'S EAGER EYES WERE NOT SLOW TO READ IT. SWEETHEART SEE HERE DEAR HE CRIED SOFTLY TIGHTENING HIS GOOD LEFT ARM. AND FORTHWITH HE BEGAN TO TELL HER HOW MUCH HE DID INDEED NEED HER. BILLY MY DEAR. IT WAS AUNT HANNAH'S PLAINTIVE VOICE AT THE DOORWAY A LITTLE LATER. WE MUST GO HOME AND WILLIAM IS HERE TOO AND WANTS TO SEE YOU. BILLY ROSE AT ONCE AS AUNT HANNAH ENTERED THE ROOM. YES AUNT HANNAH I'LL COME BESIDES SHE GLANCED AT BERTRAM MISCHIEVOUSLY I SHALL NEED ALL THE TIME I'VE GOT TO PREPARE FOR MY WEDDING YOUR WEDDING. YOU MEAN IT'LL BE BEFORE OCTOBER. AUNT HANNAH GLANCED FROM ONE TO THE OTHER UNCERTAINLY. SOMETHING IN THEIR SMILING FACES SENT A QUICK SUSPICION TO HER EYES. YES NODDED BILLY DEMURELY. YES I KNOW THAT IS A GOOD WHILE CUT IN BERTRAM AIRILY. WE WANTED IT TO MORROW BUT WE HAD TO WAIT ON ACCOUNT OF THE NEW LICENSE LAW

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+JASPER'S DELICATE CASE. ONLY WHEN HE RECEIVED MISS RUPERT'S AMIABLY WORDED REFUSAL TO BECOME HIS WIFE WAS JASPER AWARE HOW FIRMLY HE HAD COUNTED ON HER ACCEPTING HIM. HE TOLD DORA WITH SINCERITY THAT HIS PROPOSAL WAS A PIECE OF FOOLISHNESS SO FAR FROM HAVING ANY REGARD FOR MISS RUPERT HE FELT TOWARDS HER WITH SOMETHING OF ANTIPATHY AND AT THE SAME TIME HE WAS CONSCIOUS OF ARDENT EMOTIONS IF NOT LOVE FOR ANOTHER WOMAN WHO WOULD BE NO BAD MATCH EVEN FROM THE COMMERCIAL POINT OF VIEW. YET SO STRONG WAS THE EFFECT UPON HIM OF CONTEMPLATING A LARGE FORTUNE THAT IN DESPITE OF REASON AND DESIRE HE LIVED IN EAGER EXPECTATION OF THE WORD WHICH SHOULD MAKE HIM RICH. AND FOR SEVERAL HOURS AFTER HIS DISAPPOINTMENT HE COULD NOT OVERCOME THE IMPRESSION OF CALAMITY. A PART OF THAT IMPRESSION WAS DUE TO THE ENGAGEMENT WHICH HE MUST NOW FULFIL. HE HAD PLEDGED HIS WORD TO ASK MARIAN TO MARRY HIM WITHOUT FURTHER DELAY. TO SHUFFLE OUT OF THIS DUTY WOULD MAKE HIM TOO IGNOBLE EVEN IN HIS OWN EYES. BUT EVENTS HAD ENMESHED HIM CIRCUMSTANCES HAD PROVED FATAL. BECAUSE IN HIS SALAD DAYS HE DALLIED WITH A GIRL WHO HAD INDEED MANY CHARMS STEP BY STEP HE HAD COME TO THE NECESSITY OF SACRIFICING HIS PROSPECTS TO THAT RAW ATTACHMENT. AND TO MAKE IT MORE IRRITATING THIS HAPPENED JUST WHEN THE WAY BEGAN TO BE MUCH CLEARER BEFORE HIM. UNABLE TO THINK OF WORK HE LEFT THE HOUSE AND WANDERED GLOOMILY ABOUT REGENT'S PARK. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS RECOLLECTION THE CONFIDENCE WHICH WAS WONT TO INSPIRIT HIM GAVE WAY TO AN ATTACK OF SULLEN DISCONTENT. HE FELT HIMSELF ILL USED BY DESTINY AND THEREFORE BY MARIAN WHO WAS FATE'S INSTRUMENT. IT WAS NOT IN HIS NATURE THAT THIS MOOD SHOULD LAST LONG BUT IT REVEALED TO HIM THOSE DARKER POSSIBILITIES WHICH HIS EGOISM WOULD DEVELOP IF IT CAME SERIOUSLY INTO CONFLICT WITH OVERMASTERING MISFORTUNE. A HOPE A CRAVEN HOPE INSINUATED ITSELF INTO THE CRACKS OF HIS INFIRM RESOLVE. HE WOULD NOT EXAMINE IT BUT CONSCIOUS OF ITS EXISTENCE HE WAS ABLE TO GO HOME IN SOMEWHAT BETTER SPIRITS. HE WROTE TO MARIAN. IF POSSIBLE SHE WAS TO MEET HIM AT HALF PAST NINE NEXT MORNING AT GLOUCESTER GATE. HE HAD REASONS FOR WISHING THIS INTERVIEW TO TAKE PLACE ON NEUTRAL GROUND. EARLY IN THE AFTERNOON WHEN HE WAS TRYING TO DO SOME WORK THERE ARRIVED A LETTER WHICH HE OPENED WITH IMPATIENT HAND THE WRITING WAS MISSUS REARDON'S AND HE COULD NOT GUESS WHAT SHE HAD TO COMMUNICATE. DOUBTLESS YOU CAN OBTAIN MORE DETAILS THAN ARE GIVEN IN THIS BARE REPORT OF THE DISCOVERY OF HIS BODY. WILL YOU LET ME HEAR OR COME AND SEE ME. HE READ AND WAS ASTONISHED. I SUPPOSE THERE WAS NO ALTERNATIVE BETWEEN THAT AND STARVATION. I SCARCELY THOUGHT OF BIFFEN AS LIKELY TO KILL HIMSELF. IF REARDON HAD DONE IT I SHOULDN'T HAVE FELT THE LEAST SURPRISE. MISTER WHELPDALE WILL BE BRINGING US INFORMATION NO DOUBT SAID DORA WHO AS SHE SPOKE THOUGHT MORE OF THAT GENTLEMAN'S VISIT THAN OF THE EVENT THAT WAS TO OCCASION IT. REALLY ONE CAN'T GRIEVE. THERE SEEMED NO POSSIBILITY OF HIS EVER EARNING ENOUGH TO LIVE DECENTLY UPON. BUT WHY THE DEUCE DID HE GO ALL THE WAY OUT THERE. CONSIDERATION FOR THE PEOPLE IN WHOSE HOUSE HE LIVED I DARE SAY BIFFEN HAD A GOOD DEAL OF NATIVE DELICACY

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+LEAVING HER JASPER MADE A RAPID THOUGH CAREFUL TOILET AND WAS PRESENTLY ON HIS WAY TO WESTBOURNE PARK. IT WAS HIS HOPE THAT HE SHOULD REACH MISSUS YULE'S HOUSE BEFORE ANY ORDINARY AFTERNOON CALLER COULD ARRIVE AND SO HE DID HE HAD NOT BEEN HERE SINCE THAT EVENING WHEN HE ENCOUNTERED REARDON ON THE ROAD AND HEARD HIS REPROACHES. TO HIS GREAT SATISFACTION AMY WAS ALONE IN THE DRAWING ROOM HE HELD HER HAND A TRIFLE LONGER THAN WAS NECESSARY AND RETURNED MORE EARNESTLY THE LOOK OF INTEREST WITH WHICH SHE REGARDED HIM. I WAS IGNORANT OF THIS AFFAIR WHEN YOUR LETTER CAME HE BEGAN AND I SET OUT IMMEDIATELY TO SEE YOU. I HOPED YOU WOULD BRING ME SOME NEWS. WHAT CAN HAVE DRIVEN THE POOR MAN TO SUCH EXTREMITY. POVERTY I CAN ONLY SUPPOSE. BUT I WILL SEE WHELPDALE I HADN'T COME ACROSS BIFFEN FOR A LONG TIME. WAS HE STILL SO VERY POOR. ASKED AMY COMPASSIONATELY. I'M AFRAID SO HIS BOOK FAILED UTTERLY. OH IF I HAD IMAGINED HIM STILL IN SUCH DISTRESS SURELY I MIGHT HAVE DONE SOMETHING TO HELP HIM. WITH AMY'S SORROW WAS MINGLED A SUGGESTION OF TENDERNESS WHICH CAME OF HER KNOWLEDGE THAT THE DEAD MAN HAD WORSHIPPED HER. PERCHANCE HIS DEATH WAS IN PART ATTRIBUTABLE TO THAT HOPELESS LOVE. HE SENT ME A COPY OF HIS NOVEL SHE SAID AND I SAW HIM ONCE OR TWICE AFTER THAT. BUT HE WAS MUCH BETTER DRESSED THAN IN FORMER DAYS AND I THOUGHT. HAVING THIS SUBJECT TO CONVERSE UPON PUT THE TWO MORE QUICKLY AT EASE THAN COULD OTHERWISE HAVE BEEN THE CASE. JASPER WAS CLOSELY OBSERVANT OF THE YOUNG WIDOW HER FINISHED GRACES MADE A STRONG APPEAL TO HIS ADMIRATION AND EVEN IN SOME DEGREE AWED HIM. HE SAW THAT HER BEAUTY HAD MATURED AND IT WAS MORE DISTINCTLY THAN EVER OF THE TYPE TO WHICH HE PAID REVERENCE. AMY MIGHT TAKE A FOREMOST PLACE AMONG BRILLIANT WOMEN. IT GRIEVED ME VERY MUCH SAID AMY TO HEAR OF THE MISFORTUNE THAT BEFELL MY COUSIN THE LEGACY AFFAIR. WHY YES IT WAS A PITY. ESPECIALLY NOW THAT HER FATHER IS THREATENED WITH BLINDNESS. IS IT SO SERIOUS. I HEARD INDIRECTLY THAT HE HAD SOMETHING THE MATTER WITH HIS EYES BUT I DIDN'T KNOW. THEY MAY BE ABLE TO OPERATE BEFORE LONG AND PERHAPS IT WILL BE SUCCESSFUL. THIS EXPLAINS THE THE DELAY. FELL FROM AMY'S LIPS AS SHE SMILED. JASPER MOVED UNCOMFORTABLY IT WAS A VOLUNTARY GESTURE. THE WHOLE SITUATION EXPLAINS IT HE REPLIED WITH SOME SHOW OF IMPULSIVENESS. INDEED BUT THERE IS HER MOTHER. NO COMPANION FOR HER FATHER AS I THINK YOU KNOW. EVEN IF MISTER YULE RECOVERS HIS SIGHT IT IS NOT AT ALL LIKELY THAT HE WILL BE ABLE TO WORK AS BEFORE. OUR DIFFICULTIES ARE SO GRAVE THAT. HE PAUSED AND LET HIS HAND FAIL DESPONDENTLY. I HOPE IT ISN'T AFFECTING YOUR WORK YOUR PROGRESS. I HAVE A GOOD DEAL OF WILL YOU REMEMBER AND WHAT I HAVE SET MY MIND UPON NO DOUBT I SHALL SOME DAY ACHIEVE. BUT ONE MAKES MISTAKES. THERE WAS SILENCE. THE LAST THREE YEARS HE CONTINUED HAVE MADE NO SLIGHT DIFFERENCE IN MY POSITION. RECALL WHERE I STOOD WHEN YOU FIRST KNEW ME. JUST NOW I AM IN NEED OF A LITTLE ENCOURAGEMENT. YOU DON'T NOTICE ANY FALLING OFF IN MY WORK RECENTLY. NO INDEED. DO YOU SEE MY THINGS IN THE CURRENT AND SO ON GENERALLY. I DON'T THINK I MISS MANY OF YOUR ARTICLES

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+SOMETIMES I BELIEVE I HAVE DETECTED YOU WHEN THERE WAS NO SIGNATURE. AND DORA HAS BEEN DOING WELL. HER STORY IN THAT GIRLS PAPER HAS ATTRACTED ATTENTION. AND I COULD SO EASILY PUT HER AT REST BY RENOUNCING ALL CLAIM UPON HER. I SURMISE THAT THAT YOU YOURSELF WOULD ALSO BE PUT AT REST BY SUCH A DECISION. DON'T LOOK AT ME WITH THAT IRONICAL SMILE HE PLEADED. WHAT YOU HAVE SAID IS TRUE. AND REALLY WHY SHOULD I NOT BE GLAD OF IT. I COULDN'T GO ABOUT DECLARING THAT I WAS HEARTBROKEN IN ANY EVENT I MUST BE CONTENT FOR PEOPLE TO JUDGE ME ACCORDING TO THEIR DISPOSITION AND JUDGMENTS ARE PRETTY SURE TO BE UNFAVOURABLE WHAT CAN I DO. IN EITHER CASE I MUST TO A CERTAIN EXTENT BE IN THE WRONG. TO TELL THE TRUTH I WAS WRONG FROM THE FIRST. THE CASE IS TOO DELICATE I FEAR FOR MY ADVICE. WELL I'LL GO BACK TO MY SCRIBBLING. IT WAS GOOD OF YOU TO TAKE THE TROUBLE TO COME WHILST YOU HAVE SO MUCH ON YOUR MIND. AGAIN JASPER HELD THE WHITE SOFT HAND FOR A SUPERFLUOUS MOMENT. THE NEXT MORNING IT WAS HE WHO HAD TO WAIT AT THE RENDEZVOUS HE WAS PACING THE PATHWAY AT LEAST TEN MINUTES BEFORE THE APPOINTED TIME. WHEN MARIAN JOINED HIM SHE WAS PANTING FROM A HURRIED WALK AND THIS AFFECTED JASPER DISAGREEABLY HE THOUGHT OF AMY REARDON'S AIR OF REPOSE AND HOW IMPOSSIBLE IT WOULD BE FOR THAT REFINED PERSON TO FALL INTO SUCH DISORDER. HE OBSERVED TOO WITH MORE DISGUST THAN USUAL THE SIGNS IN MARIAN'S ATTIRE OF ENCROACHING POVERTY HER UNSATISFACTORY GLOVES HER MANTLE OUT OF FASHION. YET FOR SUCH FEELINGS HE REPROACHED HIMSELF AND THE REPROACH MADE HIM ANGRY. THEY WALKED TOGETHER IN THE SAME DIRECTION AS WHEN THEY MET HERE BEFORE. MARIAN COULD NOT MISTAKE THE AIR OF RESTLESS TROUBLE ON HER COMPANION'S SMOOTH COUNTENANCE. SHE HAD DIVINED THAT THERE WAS SOME GRAVE REASON FOR THIS SUMMONS AND THE PANTING WITH WHICH SHE HAD APPROACHED WAS HALF CAUSED BY THE ANXIOUS BEATS OF HER HEART. JASPER'S LONG SILENCE AGAIN WAS OMINOUS. HE BEGAN ABRUPTLY. YOU'VE HEARD THAT HAROLD BIFFEN HAS COMMITTED SUICIDE NO. SHE REPLIED LOOKING SHOCKED POISONED HIMSELF. YOU'LL FIND SOMETHING ABOUT IT IN TODAY'S TELEGRAPH. HE GAVE HER SUCH DETAILS AS HE HAD OBTAINED THEN ADDED. THERE ARE TWO OF MY COMPANIONS FALLEN IN THE BATTLE. I OUGHT TO THINK MYSELF A LUCKY FELLOW MARIAN WHAT. YOU ARE BETTER FITTED TO FIGHT YOUR WAY JASPER. MORE OF A BRUTE YOU MEAN. YOU KNOW VERY WELL I DON'T. YOU HAVE MORE ENERGY AND MORE INTELLECT. SHE LOOKED AT HIM INQUIRINGLY BUT SAID NOTHING. I HAVE MADE UP MY MIND ABOUT OUR AFFAIRS HE WENT ON PRESENTLY. THE WORDS WERE SO UNEXPECTED THAT THEY BROUGHT A FLUSH TO HER CHEEKS AND NECK NOW. YES. WILL YOU MARRY ME AND LET US TAKE OUR CHANCE. HER HEART THROBBED VIOLENTLY. WELL NOW THERE'S THE POINT. YOU FEEL YOURSELF INDISPENSABLE TO YOUR FATHER AT PRESENT. NOT INDISPENSABLE BUT WOULDN'T IT SEEM VERY UNKIND. I SHOULD BE SO AFRAID OF THE EFFECT UPON HIS HEALTH JASPER. IT WOULD BE DREADFUL IF I WERE THE CAUSE OF. SHE PAUSED AND LOOKED UP AT HIM TOUCHINGLY. I UNDERSTAND THAT BUT LET US FACE OUR POSITION

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+SUPPOSE HE DOES NOT REGAIN HIS SIGHT COULD YOU THEN LEAVE HIM. DEAR I CAN'T FEEL IT WOULD BE MY DUTY TO RENOUNCE YOU BECAUSE MY FATHER HAD BECOME BLIND. AND IF HE CAN SEE PRETTY WELL I DON'T THINK I NEED REMAIN WITH HIM. HAS ONE THING OCCURRED TO YOU. WILL HE CONSENT TO RECEIVE AN ALLOWANCE FROM A PERSON WHOSE NAME IS MISSUS MILVAIN. I CAN'T BE SURE SHE REPLIED MUCH TROUBLED. AND IF HE OBSTINATELY REFUSES WHAT THEN WHAT IS BEFORE HIM. MARIAN'S HEAD SANK AND SHE STOOD STILL. WHY HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND SO JASPER SHE INQUIRED AT LENGTH. BECAUSE I HAVE DECIDED THAT THE INDEFINITELY LONG ENGAGEMENT WOULD BE UNJUST TO YOU AND TO MYSELF. SUCH ENGAGEMENTS ARE ALWAYS DANGEROUS SOMETIMES THEY DEPRAVE THE CHARACTER OF THE MAN OR WOMAN. SHE LISTENED ANXIOUSLY AND REFLECTED. EVERYTHING HE WENT ON WOULD BE SIMPLE ENOUGH BUT FOR YOUR DOMESTIC DIFFICULTIES. AS I HAVE SAID THERE IS THE VERY SERIOUS DOUBT WHETHER YOUR FATHER WOULD ACCEPT MONEY FROM YOU WHEN YOU ARE MY WIFE. I THOUGHT YOU FELT SURE OF THAT. I'M NOT VERY SURE OF ANYTHING TO TELL THE TRUTH I AM HARASSED. I CAN'T GET ON WITH MY WORK. I AM VERY VERY SORRY. IT ISN'T YOUR FAULT MARIAN AND WELL THEN THERE'S ONLY ONE THING TO DO. LET US WAIT AT ALL EVENTS TILL YOUR FATHER HAS UNDERGONE THE OPERATION. EXCEPT JASPER THAT IF FATHER IS HELPLESS I MUST FIND MEANS OF ASSURING HIS SUPPORT. AFTER A SILENCE MARIAN REGARDED HIM STEADILY. THEY ARE MANY I KNOW. DO YOU THINK THEM INSURMOUNTABLE. UPON MY WORD THEY ALMOST SEEM SO JASPER EXCLAIMED DISTRACTEDLY. THEY WERE NOT SO GREAT WHEN WE SPOKE OF MARRIAGE A FEW YEARS HENCE. A FEW YEARS HE ECHOED IN A CHEERLESS VOICE. THAT IS JUST WHAT I HAVE DECIDED IS IMPOSSIBLE MARIAN YOU SHALL HAVE THE PLAIN TRUTH. I DON'T TRUST MYSELF. I DIDN'T MEAN THAT. TO FACE DIFFICULTIES YES. WHILST THEY SPOKE THE SKY HAD GROWN DARK WITH A HEAVY CLOUD AND NOW SPOTS OF RAIN BEGAN TO FALL. BUT SHALL YOU FACE THEM WILLINGLY. PUT UP YOUR UMBRELLA MARIAN. WHAT DO I CARE FOR A DROP OF RAIN SHE EXCLAIMED WITH PASSIONATE SADNESS WHEN ALL MY LIFE IS AT STAKE HOW AM I TO UNDERSTAND YOU. EVERY WORD YOU SPEAK SEEMS INTENDED TO DISHEARTEN ME. DO YOU NO LONGER LOVE ME. WHY NEED YOU CONCEAL IT IF THAT IS THE TRUTH. IS THAT WHAT YOU MEAN BY SAYING YOU DISTRUST YOURSELF. IF YOU DO SO THERE MUST BE REASON FOR IT IN THE PRESENT COULD I DISTRUST MYSELF. CAN I FORCE MYSELF IN ANY MANNER TO BELIEVE THAT I SHALL EVER CEASE TO LOVE YOU. JASPER OPENED HIS UMBRELLA. WE MUST SEE EACH OTHER AGAIN MARIAN. WE CAN'T STAND AND TALK IN THE RAIN CONFOUND IT. CURSED CLIMATE WHERE YOU CAN NEVER BE SURE OF A CLEAR SKY FOR FIVE MINUTES. I CAN'T GO TILL YOU HAVE SPOKEN MORE PLAINLY JASPER. HOW AM I TO LIVE AN HOUR IN SUCH UNCERTAINTY AS THIS. DO YOU LOVE ME OR NOT. DO YOU WISH ME TO BE YOUR WIFE OR ARE YOU SACRIFICING YOURSELF. I DO WISH IT. HER EMOTION HAD AN EFFECT UPON HIM AND HIS VOICE TREMBLED. THERE IS NO NATURAL LAW THAT A CHILD SHOULD SURRENDER EVERYTHING FOR HER PARENTS. YOU KNOW SO MUCH MORE OF THE WORLD THAN I DO CAN'T YOU ADVISE ME

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+IS THERE NO WAY OF PROVIDING FOR MY FATHER. GOOD GOD THIS IS FRIGHTFUL MARIAN I CAN'T STAND IT. LIVE AS YOU ARE DOING LET US WAIT AND SEE. AT THE COST OF LOSING YOU. I WILL BE FAITHFUL TO YOU. AND YOUR VOICE SAYS YOU PROMISE IT OUT OF PITY. HE HAD MADE A PRETENCE OF HOLDING HIS UMBRELLA OVER HER BUT MARIAN TURNED AWAY AND WALKED TO A LITTLE DISTANCE AND STOOD BENEATH THE SHELTER OF A GREAT TREE HER FACE AVERTED FROM HIM. MOVING TO FOLLOW HE SAW THAT HER FRAME WAS SHAKEN BY SOUNDLESS SOBBING. WHEN HIS FOOTSTEPS CAME CLOSE TO HER SHE AGAIN LOOKED AT HIM. IN WHAT CAN THERE BE MORE SELFISHNESS. I FEEL AS IF I COULD HOLD YOU TO YOUR PROMISE AT ANY COST THOUGH YOU HAVE MADE ME UNDERSTAND THAT YOU REGARD OUR ENGAGEMENT AS YOUR GREAT MISFORTUNE. I HAVE FELT IT FOR WEEKS OH FOR MONTHS. BUT I COULDN'T SAY A WORD THAT WOULD SEEM TO INVITE SUCH MISERY AS THIS. YOU DON'T LOVE ME JASPER AND THAT'S AN END OF EVERYTHING. I SHOULD BE SHAMED IF I MARRIED YOU. WHETHER I LOVE YOU OR NOT I FEEL AS IF NO SACRIFICE WOULD BE TOO GREAT THAT WOULD BRING YOU THE HAPPINESS YOU DESERVE DESERVE. SHE REPEATED BITTERLY WHY DO I DESERVE IT. BECAUSE I LONG FOR IT WITH ALL MY HEART AND SOUL. THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS DESERVING. HAPPINESS OR MISERY COME TO US BY FATE. IS IT IN MY POWER TO MAKE YOU HAPPY. NO BECAUSE IT ISN'T IN YOUR POWER TO CALL DEAD LOVE TO LIFE AGAIN. I THINK PERHAPS YOU NEVER LOVED ME. BUT IF YOU HAD SAID YOU LOVED ME BEFORE THAT I SHOULD HAVE IT ALWAYS TO REMEMBER. YOU WILL DO ME NO WRONG IF YOU CHARGE ME WITH BASENESS HE REPLIED GLOOMILY. IF I BELIEVE ANYTHING I BELIEVE THAT I DID LOVE YOU. BUT I KNEW MYSELF AND I SHOULD NEVER HAVE BETRAYED WHAT I FELT IF FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE I COULD HAVE BEEN HONOURABLE. THIS IS WRETCHEDNESS TO BOTH OF US JASPER ADDED LET US PART NOW MARIAN. LET ME SEE YOU AGAIN. I CAN'T SEE YOU AGAIN. WHAT CAN YOU SAY TO ME MORE THAN YOU HAVE SAID NOW. I SHOULD FEEL LIKE A BEGGAR COMING TO YOU. I MUST TRY AND KEEP SOME LITTLE SELF RESPECT IF I AM TO LIVE AT ALL. THEN LET ME HELP YOU TO THINK OF ME WITH INDIFFERENCE. REMEMBER ME AS A MAN WHO DISREGARDED PRICELESS LOVE SUCH AS YOURS TO GO AND MAKE HIMSELF A PROUD POSITION AMONG FOOLS AND KNAVES INDEED THAT'S WHAT IT COMES TO. IT IS YOU WHO REJECT ME AND RIGHTLY. ONE WHO IS SO MUCH AT THE MERCY OF A VULGAR AMBITION AS I AM IS NO FIT HUSBAND FOR YOU. SOON ENOUGH YOU WOULD THOROUGHLY DESPISE ME AND THOUGH I SHOULD KNOW IT WAS MERITED MY PERVERSE PRIDE WOULD REVOLT AGAINST IT. IT IS MEN OF MY KIND WHO SUCCEED THE CONSCIENTIOUS AND THOSE WHO REALLY HAVE A HIGH IDEAL EITHER PERISH OR STRUGGLE ON IN NEGLECT. MARIAN HAD OVERCOME HER EXCESS OF EMOTION. THERE IS NO NEED TO DISPARAGE YOURSELF SHE SAID. WHAT CAN BE SIMPLER THAN THE TRUTH. YOU LOVED ME OR THOUGHT YOU DID AND NOW YOU LOVE ME NO LONGER. IT IS A THING THAT HAPPENS EVERY DAY EITHER IN MAN OR WOMAN AND ALL THAT HONOUR DEMANDS IS THE COURAGE TO CONFESS THE TRUTH. WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME AS SOON AS YOU KNEW THAT I WAS BURDENSOME TO YOU

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+MARIAN WILL YOU DO THIS WILL YOU LET OUR ENGAGEMENT LAST FOR ANOTHER SIX MONTHS BUT WITHOUT OUR MEETING DURING THAT TIME. BUT TO WHAT PURPOSE. THAT SEEMS TO ME CHILDISH. IT IS EASY FOR YOU TO CONTEMPLATE MONTHS OF POSTPONEMENT. THERE MUST BE AN END NOW I CAN BEAR IT NO LONGER. THE RAIN FELL UNCEASINGLY AND WITH IT BEGAN TO MINGLE AN AUTUMNAL MIST. JASPER DELAYED A MOMENT THEN ASKED CALMLY. ARE YOU GOING TO THE MUSEUM YES. GO HOME AGAIN FOR THIS MORNING MARIAN YOU CAN'T WORK. I MUST AND I HAVE NO TIME TO LOSE. GOOD BYE SHE GAVE HIM HER HAND. THEY LOOKED AT EACH OTHER FOR AN INSTANT THEN MARIAN LEFT THE SHELTER OF THE TREE OPENED HER UMBRELLA AND WALKED QUICKLY AWAY. JASPER DID NOT WATCH HER HE HAD THE FACE OF A MAN WHO IS SUFFERING A SEVERE HUMILIATION. A FEW HOURS LATER HE TOLD DORA WHAT HAD COME TO PASS AND WITHOUT EXTENUATION OF HIS OWN CONDUCT. HIS SISTER SAID VERY LITTLE FOR SHE RECOGNISED GENUINE SUFFERING IN HIS TONES AND ASPECT. BUT WHEN IT WAS OVER SHE SAT DOWN AND WROTE TO MARIAN. I FEEL FAR MORE DISPOSED TO CONGRATULATE YOU THAN TO REGRET WHAT HAS HAPPENED. A FEW WEEKS AGO HE ACTUALLY PROPOSED TO A WOMAN FOR WHOM HE DOES NOT PRETEND TO HAVE THE SLIGHTEST AFFECTION BUT WHO IS VERY RICH AND WHO SEEMED LIKELY TO BE FOOLISH ENOUGH TO MARRY HIM. YESTERDAY MORNING HE RECEIVED HER FINAL ANSWER A REFUSAL. I AM NOT SURE THAT I WAS RIGHT IN KEEPING THIS A SECRET FROM YOU BUT I MIGHT HAVE DONE HARM BY INTERFERING. YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THOUGH SURELY YOU NEED NO FRESH PROOF HOW UTTERLY UNWORTHY HE IS OF YOU. DEAREST MARIAN DO NOT CEASE TO THINK OF ME AS YOUR FRIEND BECAUSE MY BROTHER HAS DISGRACED HIMSELF. IF YOU CAN'T SEE ME AT LEAST LET US WRITE TO EACH OTHER. YOU ARE THE ONLY FRIEND I HAVE OF MY OWN SEX AND I COULD NOT BEAR TO LOSE YOU. AND MUCH MORE OF THE SAME TENOR. SEVERAL DAYS PASSED BEFORE THERE CAME A REPLY. IT WAS WRITTEN WITH UNDISTURBED KINDNESS OF FEELING BUT IN FEW WORDS. FOR THE PRESENT WE CANNOT SEE EACH OTHER BUT I AM VERY FAR FROM WISHING THAT OUR FRIENDSHIP SHOULD COME TO AN END. I MUST ONLY ASK THAT YOU WILL WRITE TO ME WITHOUT THE LEAST REFERENCE TO THESE TROUBLES TELL ME ALWAYS ABOUT YOURSELF AND BE SURE THAT YOU CANNOT TELL ME TOO MUCH. I HOPE YOU MAY SOON BE ABLE TO SEND ME THE NEWS WHICH WAS FORESHADOWED IN OUR LAST TALK THOUGH FORESHADOWED IS A WRONG WORD TO USE OF COMING HAPPINESS ISN'T IT. THAT PAPER I SENT TO MISTER TRENCHARD IS ACCEPTED AND I SHALL BE GLAD TO HAVE YOUR CRITICISM WHEN IT COMES OUT DON'T SPARE MY STYLE WHICH NEEDS A GREAT DEAL OF CHASTENING. I HAVE BEEN THINKING COULDN'T YOU USE YOUR HOLIDAY IN SARK FOR A STORY

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+IT IS JUST AS IT SHOULD BE AND IF MORE PEOPLE TAKE UP BEAGLING IT MAY NOT BE IN THE LEAST SURPRISING. NOSE BLACK BROAD AND NOSTRILS WELL EXPANDED. EYES BROWN DARK HAZEL OR HAZEL NOT DEEP SET NOR BULGY AND WITH A MILD EXPRESSION. EARS LONG SET ON LOW FINE IN TEXTURE AND HANGING IN A GRACEFUL FOLD CLOSE TO THE CHEEK. NECK MODERATELY LONG SLIGHTLY ARCHED THE THROAT SHOWING SOME DEWLAP. SHOULDERS CLEAN AND SLIGHTLY SLOPING. BODY SHORT BETWEEN THE COUPLINGS WELL LET DOWN IN CHEST RIBS FAIRLY WELL SPRUNG AND WELL RIBBED UP WITH POWERFUL AND NOT TUCKED UP LOINS. FORE LEGS QUITE STRAIGHT WELL UNDER THE DOG OF GOOD SUBSTANCE AND ROUND IN THE BONE. FEET ROUND WELL KNUCKLED UP AND STRONGLY PADDED. STERN MODERATE LENGTH SET ON HIGH THICK AND CARRIED GAILY BUT NOT CURLED OVER THE BACK. COLOUR ANY RECOGNISED HOUND COLOUR. COAT SMOOTH VARIETY SMOOTH VERY DENSE AND NOT TOO FINE OR SHORT. HEIGHT NOT EXCEEDING SIXTEEN INCHES

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+BUT THE SECRET OF DOSTOEVSKY'S APPEAL IS SOMETHING MORE THAN THE MULTITUDE AND THRILL OF HIS INCIDENTS AND CHARACTERS. SO INCONGRUOUS INDEED IS THE SENSATIONAL FRAMEWORK OF HIS STORIES WITH THE IMMENSE AND SOMBRE GENIUS THAT BROODS OVER THEM THAT MISTER MURRY IS INCLINED TO REGARD THE INCIDENTS AS A SORT OF WILD SPIRITUAL ALGEBRA RATHER THAN AS EVENTS OCCURRING ON THE PLANE OF REALITY. DOSTOEVSKY HE DECLARES IS NOT A NOVELIST. WHAT HE IS IS MORE DIFFICULT TO DEFINE. MISTER MURRY BOLDLY FACES THE DIFFICULTY AND ATTEMPTS THE DEFINITION. TO HIM DOSTOEVSKY'S WORK IS THE RECORD OF A GREAT MIND SEEKING FOR A WAY OF LIFE IT IS MORE THAN A RECORD OF STRUGGLE IT IS THE STRUGGLE ITSELF. DOSTOEVSKY HIMSELF IS A MAN OF GENIUS LIFTED OUT OF THE LIVING WORLD AND UNABLE TO DESCEND TO IT AGAIN. AND THOSE VOICES TAKE SHAPE IN CERTAIN UNFORGETTABLE FRAGMENTS OF DIALOGUE THAT HAVE BEEN SPOKEN BY ONE SPIRIT TO ANOTHER IN SOME UGLY MEAN TAVERN SET IN SURROUNDING DARKNESS. THEY HAVE NO PHYSICAL BEING. ULTIMATELY THEY ARE THE CREATIONS NOT OF A MAN WHO DESIRED TO BE BUT OF A SPIRIT WHICH SOUGHT TO KNOW. THEY ARE THE IMAGINATIONS OF A GOD TORMENTED MIND. BECAUSE THEY ARE POSSESSED THEY ARE NO LONGER MEN AND WOMEN. THIS IS ALL IN A MEASURE TRUE. DOSTOEVSKY WAS NO REALIST. NOR ON THE OTHER HAND WAS HE A NOVELIST OF HORRORS FOR HORRORS SAKE. NONE THE LESS HE REMAINS A NOVELIST WHO DRAMATIZED HIS SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF ACTIONS PERFORMED BY HUMAN BEINGS. CLEARLY HE BELIEVED THAT HUMAN BEINGS THOUGH NOT ORDINARY HUMAN BEINGS WERE CAPABLE OF PERFORMING THE ACTIONS HE NARRATES WITH SUCH ENERGY. MISTER MURRY WILL HAVE IT THAT THE ACTIONS IN THE NOVELS TAKE PLACE IN A TIMELESS WORLD LARGELY BECAUSE DOSTOEVSKY HAS THE HABIT OF CROWDING AN IMPOSSIBLE ROUT OF INCIDENTS INTO A SINGLE DAY. BUT SURELY THE GREEKS TOOK THE SAME LICENSE WITH EVENTS. THIS HABIT OF PACKING INTO A FEW HOURS ACTIONS ENOUGH TO FILL A LIFETIME SEEMS TO ME IN DOSTOEVSKY TO BE A NOVELIST'S DEVICE RATHER THAN THE RESULT OF A SPIRITUAL ESCAPE INTO TIMELESSNESS. TO SAY THIS IS NOT TO DENY THE SPIRITUAL CONTENT OF DOSTOEVSKY'S WORK THE ANGUISH OF THE IMPRISONED SOUL AS IT BATTLES WITH DOUBT AND DENIAL AND DESPAIR. THERE IS IN DOSTOEVSKY A SUGGESTION OF CALIBAN TRYING TO DISCOVER SOME BETTER GOD THAN SETEBOS. AT THE SAME TIME ONE WOULD BE GOING A GREAT DEAL TOO FAR IN ACCEPTING THE DESCRIPTION OF HIMSELF AS A CHILD OF UNBELIEF. THE ULTIMATE ATTITUDE OF DOSTOEVSKY IS AS CHRISTIAN AS THE APOSTLE PETER'S LORD I BELIEVE HELP THOU MINE UNBELIEF. AND BEYOND THE DARK NIGHT OF SUFFERING AND DISSIPATING THE NIGHT DOSTOEVSKY STILL SEES THE LIGHT OF CHRISTIAN COMPASSION. HIS WORK IS ALL EARTHQUAKE AND ECLIPSE AND DEAD STARS APART FROM THIS. OR EVEN BY THE COMPASSION OF OTHERS LIKE PRINCE MYSHKIN IN THE IDIOT. BUT THE TRUTH IS IT IS BY NO MEANS EASY TO SYSTEMATIZE THE CREED OF A CREATURE AT WAR WITH LIFE AS DOSTOEVSKY WAS A MAN TORTURED BY THE ETERNAL CONFLICT OF THE DEVILISH AND THE DIVINE IN HIS OWN BREAST. HIS WORK LIKE HIS FACE BEARS THE MARK OF THIS TERRIBLE CONFLICT. THE NOVELS ARE THE PERFECT IMAGE OF THE MAN. AS TO THE MAN HIMSELF THE VICOMTE DE VOGUEE DESCRIBED HIM AS HE SAW HIM IN THE LAST YEARS OF HIS LIFE. SHORT LEAN NEUROTIC WORN AND BOWED DOWN WITH SIXTY YEARS OF MISFORTUNE FADED RATHER THAN AGED WITH A LOOK OF AN INVALID OF UNCERTAIN AGE WITH A LONG BEARD AND HAIR STILL FAIR AND FOR ALL THAT STILL BREATHING FORTH THE CAT LIFE. THE FACE WAS THAT OF A RUSSIAN PEASANT A REAL MOSCOW MUJIK WITH A FLAT NOSE SMALL SHARP EYES DEEPLY SET SOMETIMES DARK AND GLOOMY SOMETIMES GENTLE AND MILD

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+IT HAS ABOUT AS MUCH TRUTH IN IT AS THE STATEMENT THAT MILTON WAS GREATER AS A CONTROVERSIALIST THAN AS A POET OR THAT LAMB'S PLAYS ARE BETTER THAN HIS ESSAYS. MISTER HARDY HAS UNDOUBTEDLY MADE AN ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE POETRY OF HIS TIME. BUT HE HAS GIVEN US NO VERSE THAT MORE THAN HINTS AT THE HEIGHT AND DEPTH OF THE TRAGIC VISION WHICH IS EXPRESSED IN JUDE THE OBSCURE. HE IS NOT BY TEMPERAMENT A SINGER. HIS MUSIC IS A STILL SMALL VOICE UNEVENLY MATCHED AGAINST HIS CONSCIOUSNESS OF MIDNIGHT AND STORM. IT IS A FLUTTER OF WINGS IN THE RAIN OVER A TOMB. HIS SENSE OF BEAUTY IS FRAIL AND MIDGE LIKE COMPARED WITH HIS SENSE OF EVERLASTING FRUSTRATION. THE CONCEPTIONS IN HIS NOVELS ARE INFINITELY MORE POETIC THAN THE CONCEPTIONS IN HIS VERSE. IN TESS AND JUDE DESTINY PRESIDES WITH SOMETHING OF THE GRANDEUR OF THE ANCIENT GODS. EXCEPT IN THE DYNASTS AND A FEW OF THE LYRICS THERE IS NONE OF THIS BROODING MAJESTY IN HIS VERSE. AND EVEN IN THE DYNASTS MAJESTIC AS THE SCHEME OF IT IS THERE SEEMS TO ME TO BE MORE CREATIVE IMAGINATION IN THE PROSE PASSAGES THAN IN THE POETRY. TRUTH TO TELL MISTER HARDY IS NEITHER SUFFICIENTLY ARTICULATE NOR SUFFICIENTLY FASTIDIOUS TO BE A GREAT POET. HE DOES NOT EXPRESS LIFE EASILY IN BEAUTIFUL WORDS OR IN IMAGES. THERE IS SCARCELY A MAGICAL IMAGE IN THE HUNDRED OR SO POEMS IN THE BOOK OF HIS SELECTED VERSE. THUS HE WRITES IN I FOUND HER OUT THERE OF ONE WHO. WOULD SIGH AT THE TALE OF SUNK LYONESSE AS A WIND TUGGED TRESS FLAPPED HER CHEEK LIKE A FLAIL. THERE COULD NOT BE AN UGLIER AND MORE PROSAIC EXAGGERATION THAN IS CONTAINED IN THE IMAGE IN THE LAST LINE. AND PROSE INTRUDES IN THE CHOICE OF WORDS AS WELL AS IN IMAGES. TAKE FOR EXAMPLE THE USE OF THE WORD DOMICILED IN THE PASSAGE IN THE SAME POEM ABOUT. THAT WESTERN SEA AS IT SWELLS AND SOBS WHERE SHE ONCE DOMICILED. WHEN WE AS STRANGERS SOUGHT THEIR CATERING CARE VEILED SMILES BESPOKE THEIR THOUGHT OF WHAT WE WERE. THEY WARMED AS THEY OPINED US MORE THAN FRIENDS THAT WE HAD ALL RESIGNED FOR LOVE'S DEAR ENDS. CATERING CARE IS AN APPALLING PHRASE. I DO NOT WISH TO OVER EMPHASIZE THE SIGNIFICANCE OF FLAWS OF THIS KIND. BUT AT A TIME WHEN ALL THE WORLD IS EAGER TO DO HONOUR TO MISTER HARDY'S POEMS IT IS SURELY WELL TO REFRAIN FROM DOING EQUAL HONOUR TO HIS FAULTS. WE SHALL NOT APPRECIATE THE SPLENDID INTERPRETATION OF EARTH IN THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE MORE HIGHLY FOR PERSUADING OURSELVES THAT. INTERMISSIVE AIM AT THE THING SUFFICETH. IS A LINE OF GOOD POETRY. SIMILARLY THE CRITIC IF HE IS TO ENJOY THE BEST OF MISTER HARDY MUST ALSO BE RESOLUTE NOT TO SHUT HIS EYES TO THE WORST IN SUCH A VERSE AS THAT WITH WHICH A BROKEN APPOINTMENT BEGINS. YOU DID NOT COME AND MARCHING TIME DREW ON AND WORE ME NUMB YET LESS FOR LOSS OF YOUR DEAR PRESENCE THERE THAN THAT I THUS FOUND LACKING IN YOUR MAKE THAT HIGH COMPASSION WHICH CAN OVERBEAR RELUCTANCE FOR PURE LOVING KINDNESS SAKE GRIEVED I WHEN AS THE HOPE HOUR STROKED ITS SUM YOU DID NOT COME. THERE ARE HINTS OF THE GRAND STYLE OF LYRIC POETRY IN THESE LINES BUT PHRASES LIKE IN YOUR MAKE AND AS THE HOPE HOUR STROKED ITS SUM ARE DISCORDS THAT BRING IT TUMBLING TO THE LEVELS OF VICTORIAN COMMONPLACE. WHAT ONE DOES BLESS MISTER HARDY FOR HOWEVER BOTH IN HIS VERSE AND IN HIS PROSE IS HIS BLEAK SINCERITY. HE WRITES OUT OF THE REALITY OF HIS EXPERIENCE. HE HAS A TEMPERAMENT SENSITIVE BEYOND THAT OF ALL BUT A FEW RECENT WRITERS TO THE PAIN AND PASSION OF HUMAN BEINGS. ESPECIALLY IS HE SENSITIVE TO THE PAIN AND PASSION OF FRUSTRATED LOVERS. AT LEAST HALF HIS POEMS I FANCY ARE POEMS OF FRUSTRATION

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+AND THEY HOLD US UNDER THE SPELL OF REALITY LIKE A TRAGEDY IN A NEIGHBOUR'S HOUSE EVEN WHEN THEY LEAVE US MOST MOURNFUL OVER THE EMPTINESS OF THE WORLD. ONE CAN SEE HOW VERY MOURNFUL MISTER HARDY'S GENIUS IS IF ONE COMPARES IT WITH THAT OF BROWNING HIS MASTER IN THE ART OF THE DRAMATIC LYRIC. BROWNING IS ALSO A POET OF FRUSTRATED LOVERS. ONE CAN REMEMBER POEM AFTER POEM OF HIS WITH A THEME THAT MIGHT EASILY HAVE SERVED FOR MISTER HARDY TOO LATE CRISTINA THE LOST MISTRESS THE LAST RIDE TOGETHER THE STATUE AND THE BUST TO NAME A FEW. BUT WHAT A SENSE OF TRIUMPH THERE IS IN BROWNING'S TRAGEDIES. EVEN WHEN HE WRITES OF THE FEEBLE HEARTED AS IN THE STATUE AND THE BUST HE LEAVES US WITH THE FEELING THAT WE ARE IN THE PRESENCE OF WEAKNESS IN A WORLD IN WHICH COURAGE PREVAILS. HIS WORLD IS A PLACE OF OPULENCE NOT OF POVERTY. COMPARE THE LAST RIDE TOGETHER WITH MISTER HARDY'S THE PHANTOM HORSEWOMAN AND YOU WILL SEE A VAST ENERGY AND BEAUTY ISSUING FROM LOSS IN THE ONE WHILE IN THE OTHER THERE IS LITTLE BUT A SAD SHADOW. TO HAVE LOVED EVEN FOR AN HOUR IS WITH BROWNING TO LIVE FOR EVER AFTER IN THE INHERITANCE OF A MIGHTY ACHIEVEMENT. TO HAVE LOVED FOR AN HOUR IS IN MISTER HARDY'S IMAGINATION TO HAVE DEEPENED THE SADNESS EVEN MORE THAN THE BEAUTY OF ONE'S MEMORIES. NOT THAT MISTER HARDY'S IS QUITE SO MISERABLE A GENIUS AS IS COMMONLY SUPPOSED. IT IS FALSE TO PICTURE HIM AS ALWAYS ON HIS KNEES BEFORE THE GRAVE WORM. HIS FAITH IN BEAUTY AND JOY MAY BE ONLY A THIN FLAME BUT IT IS NEVER EXTINGUISHED. HIS BEAUTIFUL LYRIC I LOOK INTO MY GLASS IS THE CRY OF A SOUL DARK BUT NOT UTTERLY DARKENED. I LOOK INTO MY GLASS AND VIEW MY WASTING SKIN AND SAY WOULD GOD IT CAME TO PASS MY HEART HAD SHRUNK AS THIN. FOR THEN I UNDISTREST BY HEARTS GROWN COLD TO ME COULD LONELY WAIT MY ENDLESS REST WITH EQUANIMITY. BUT TIME TO MAKE ME GRIEVE PART STEALS LETS PART ABIDE AND SHAKES THIS FRAGILE FRAME AT EVE WITH THROBBINGS OF NOONTIDE. THAT IS CERTAINLY WORLDS APART FROM THE UNQUENCHABLE JOY OF BROWNING'S ALL THE BREATH AND THE BLOOM OF THE WORLD IN THE BAG OF ONE BEE BUT IT IS ALSO FAR REMOVED FROM THE LO YOU MAY ALWAYS END IT WHERE YOU WILL OF THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT. AND DESPAIR IS BY NO MEANS TRIUMPHANT IN WHAT IS PERHAPS THE MOST ATTRACTIVE OF ALL MISTER HARDY'S POEMS THE OXEN. CHRISTMAS EVE AND TWELVE OF THE CLOCK NOW THEY ARE ALL ON THEIR KNEES AN ELDER SAID AS WE SAT IN A FLOCK BY THE EMBERS IN HEARTHSIDE EASE. WE PICTURED THE MEEK MILD CREATURES WHERE THEY DWELT IN THEIR STRAWY PEN NOR DID IT OCCUR TO ONE OF US THERE TO DOUBT THEY WERE KNEELING THEN. SO FAIR A FANCY FEW WOULD WEAVE IN THESE YEARS. YET I FEEL IF SOME ONE SAID ON CHRISTMAS EVE COME SEE THE OXEN KNEEL IN THE LONELY BARTON BY YONDER COOMB OUR CHILDHOOD USED TO KNOW I SHOULD GO WITH HIM IN THE GLOOM HOPING IT MIGHT BE SO. THE MOOD OF FAITH HOWEVER OR RATHER OF DELIGHT IN THE MEMORY OF FAITH IS NOT MISTER HARDY'S PREVAILING MOOD. AT THE SAME TIME HIS UNFAITH RELATES TO THE DURATION OF LOVE RATHER THAN TO HUMAN DESTINY. HE BELIEVES IN THE WORLD'S AMENDMENT. HE CAN ENTER UPON A WAR WITHOUT IRONICAL DOUBTS AS WE SEE IN THE SONG MEN WHO MARCH AWAY. MORE THAN THIS HE CAN LOOK FORWARD BEYOND WAR TO THE COMING OF A NEW PATRIOTISM OF THE WORLD. HOW LONG HE CRIES IN A POEM WRITTEN SOME YEARS AGO. HOW LONG O RULING TEUTONS SLAVS AND GAELS MUST YOUR WROTH REASONINGS TRADE ON LIVES LIKE THESE THAT ARE AS PUPPETS IN A PLAYING HAND

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+WHEN SHALL THE SANER SOFTER POLITIES WHEREOF WE DREAM HAVE SWAY IN EACH PROUD LAND AND PATRIOTISM GROWN GODLIKE SCORN TO STAND BONDSLAVE TO REALMS BUT CIRCLE EARTH AND SEAS. BUT PERHAPS HIS CHARACTERISTIC ATTITUDE TO WAR IS TO BE FOUND NOT IN LINES LIKE THESE BUT IN THAT MELANCHOLY POEM THE SOULS OF THE SLAIN IN WHICH THE SOULS OF THE DEAD SOLDIERS RETURN TO THEIR COUNTRY AND QUESTION A SENIOR SOUL FLAME AS TO HOW THEIR FRIENDS AND RELATIVES HAVE KEPT THEIR DOUGHTY DEEDS IN REMEMBRANCE. AND GENERAL HOW HOLD OUT OUR SWEETHEARTS SWORN LOYAL AS DOVES. MANY MOURN MANY THINK IT IS NOT UNATTRACTIVE TO PRINK THEM IN SABLE FOR HEROES. SOME FICKLE AND FLEET HEARTS HAVE FOUND THEM NEW LOVES. AND OUR WIVES QUOTH ANOTHER RESIGNEDLY DWELL THEY ON OUR DEEDS. DEEDS OF HOME THAT LIVE YET FRESH AS NEW DEEDS OF FONDNESS OR FRET ANCIENT WORDS THAT WERE KINDLY EXPRESSED OR UNKINDLY THESE THESE HAVE THEIR HEEDS. MISTER HARDY HAS TOO BITTER A SENSE OF REALITY TO BELIEVE MUCH IN THE GLORY OF WAR. HIS IMAGINATION HAS ALWAYS BEEN CURIOUSLY INTERESTED IN SOLDIERS BUT THAT IS MORE BECAUSE THEY HAVE ADDED A TOUCH OF COLOUR TO THE TRAGIC GAME OF LIFE THAN BECAUSE HE IS ON THE SIDE OF THE MILITARY SHOW. ONE HAS ONLY TO READ THE DYNASTS ALONG WITH BARRACK ROOM BALLADS TO SEE THAT THE ATTITUDE OF MISTER HARDY TO WAR IS THE ATTITUDE OF THE BROODING ARTIST IN CONTRAST WITH THAT OF THE MUSIC HALL POLITICIAN. NOT THAT MISTER KIPLING DID NOT TELL US SOME TRUTHS ABOUT THE FATE OF OUR FELLOWS BUT HE RELATED THEM TO AN ATMOSPHERE THAT SAVOURED OF BEER AND TOBACCO RATHER THAN OF ETERNITY. THE REAL WORLD TO MISTER HARDY IS THE WORLD OF ANCIENT HUMAN THINGS IN WHICH WAR HAS COME TO BE A HIDEOUS IRRELEVANCE. ONLY A MAN HARROWING CLODS IN A SLOW SILENT WALK WITH AN OLD HORSE THAT STUMBLES AND NODS HALF ASLEEP AS THEY STALK. ONLY THIN SMOKE WITHOUT FLAME FROM THE HEAPS OF COUCH GRASS YET THIS WILL GO ONWARD THE SAME THOUGH DYNASTIES PASS. YONDER A MAID AND HER WIGHT COME WHISPERING BY WAR'S ANNALS WILL FADE INTO NIGHT ERE THEIR STORY DIE. IT MAY BE THOUGHT ON THE OTHER HAND THAT MISTER HARDY'S POEMS ABOUT WAR ARE NO MORE EXPRESSIVE OF TRAGIC FUTILITY THAN HIS POEMS ABOUT LOVE. FUTILITY AND FRUSTRATION ARE EVER RECURRING THEMES IN BOTH. HIS LOVERS LIKE HIS SOLDIERS ROT IN THE GRAVE DEFEATED OF THEIR GLORY. LOVERS ARE ALWAYS SEVERED BOTH IN LIFE AND IN DEATH. RAIN ON THE WINDOWS CREAKING DOORS WITH BLASTS THAT BESOM THE GREEN AND I AM HERE AND YOU ARE THERE AND A HUNDRED MILES BETWEEN. IN BEYOND THE LAST LAMP WE HAVE THE SAME MOURNFUL CRY OVER SEVERANCE. THERE ARE FEW SADDER POEMS THAN THIS WITH ITS TRISTFUL REFRAIN EVEN IN THE WORKS OF MISTER HARDY. IT IS TOO LONG TO QUOTE IN FULL BUT ONE MAY GIVE THE LAST VERSES OF THIS LYRIC OF LOVERS IN A LANE. WHEN I RE TROD THAT WATERY WAY SOME HOURS BEYOND THE DROOP OF DAY STILL I FOUND PACING THERE THE TWAIN JUST AS SLOWLY JUST AS SADLY HEEDLESS OF THE NIGHT AND RAIN. ONE COULD BUT WONDER WHO THEY WERE AND WHAT WILD WOE DETAINED THEM THERE. THOUGH THIRTY YEARS OF BLUR AND BLOT HAVE SLID SINCE I BEHELD THAT SPOT AND SAW IN CURIOUS CONVERSE THERE MOVING SLOWLY MOVING SADLY THAT MYSTERIOUS TRAGIC PAIR ITS OLDEN LOOK MAY LINGER ON ALL BUT THE COUPLE THEY HAVE GONE. WHITHER WHO KNOWS INDEED AND YET TO ME WHEN NIGHTS ARE WEIRD AND WET WITHOUT THOSE COMRADES THERE AT TRYST CREEPING SLOWLY CREEPING SADLY THAT LOVE LANE DOES NOT EXIST

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+IF YOUR BLACK SKIRT WERE SPONGED AND PRESSED AND RE HUNG IT WOULD DO VERY WELL. THAT PUCKER CAME OFTEN ENOUGH WITHOUT BEING BROUGHT THERE BY EXTRA WORRIES. I'D BETTER BE PUTTING MY GREY MATTER INTO THAT ALGEBRA INSTEAD OF WASTING IT PLOTTING FOR A PARTY DRESS THAT I CERTAINLY CAN'T GET. IT'S A SAD THING FOR A BODY TO LACK BRAINS WHEN SHE WANTS TO BE A TEACHER ISN'T IT. IF I COULD ONLY ABSORB ALGEBRA AND HISTORY AS I CAN MUSIC WHAT A BLESSING IT WOULD BE. SHE WANTED PENELOPE TO GO TO THAT PARTY. PENELOPE HAS STUDIED SO HARD ALL WINTER AND SHE HASN'T GONE ANYWHERE THOUGHT THE OLDER SISTER WISTFULLY. SHE IS GETTING DISCOURAGED OVER THOSE EXAMINATIONS AND SHE NEEDS JUST A GOOD JOLLY TIME TO HEARTEN HER UP. IF IT COULD ONLY BE MANAGED BUT DORIS DID NOT SEE HOW IT COULD. INDEED SHE COULD NOT HAVE DONE EVEN THAT MUCH IF THEY HAD NOT OWNED THEIR LITTLE COTTAGE. NEXT YEAR IT WOULD BE EASIER IF PENELOPE GOT THROUGH HER EXAMINATIONS SUCCESSFULLY BUT JUST NOW THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NOT A SPARE PENNY IT IS HARD TO BE POOR. DORIS DREAMED OF PRETTY DRESSES ALL THAT NIGHT AND THOUGHT ABOUT THEM ALL THE NEXT DAY. SO IT MUST BE CONFESSED DID PENELOPE THOUGH SHE WOULD NOT HAVE ADMITTED IT FOR THE WORLD. THE EXPRESSMAN BROUGHT THIS PARCEL AN HOUR AGO AND THERE'S A LETTER FOR YOU FROM AUNT ADELLA ON THE CLOCK SHELF AND I THINK THEY BELONG TO EACH OTHER HURRY UP AND FIND OUT. I SUPPOSE IT CAN'T BE ANYTHING ELSE SMILED DORIS. SHE KNEW THAT PENELOPE HAD STARTED OUT TO SAY A NEW DRESS. SHE CUT THE STRINGS AND REMOVED THE WRAPPINGS. DORIS HUNTER I BELIEVE IT'S AN OLD QUILT. SHE LAUGHED A LITTLE SHAKILY. LISTEN PENELOPE MY DEAR DORIS. THERE IS A BIT OF THE WEDDING DRESS OF EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY IN IT. LOVE TO PENELOPE AND YOURSELF. YOUR AFFECTIONATE AUNT ADELLA HUNTER. I DON'T SEE ITS BEAUTY SAID PENELOPE WITH A GRIMACE. IT MAY HAVE BEEN PRETTY ONCE BUT IT IS ALL FADED NOW. THE PATTERN IS WHAT THEY CALL LITTLE THOUSANDS ISN'T IT. TELL ME DORRIE DOES IT ARGUE A LACK OF PROPER RESPECT FOR MY ANCESTORS THAT I CAN'T FEEL VERY ENTHUSIASTIC OVER THIS HEIRLOOM ESPECIALLY WHEN GRANDMOTHER HUNTER DIED YEARS BEFORE I WAS BORN. IT WAS VERY KIND OF AUNT ADELLA TO SEND IT SAID DORIS DUTIFULLY. OH VERY AGREED PENELOPE DROLLY. WHY THE WRONG SIDE IS EVER SO MUCH PRETTIER THAN THE RIGHT EXCLAIMED PENELOPE. WHAT LOVELY OLD TIMEY STUFF AND NOT A BIT FADED. THAT WAS A DRESS GRANDMOTHER HUNTER HAD WHEN SHE WAS A GIRL SAID DORIS ABSENTLY. I REMEMBER HEARING AUNT ADELLA SPEAK OF IT. I DECLARE IT IS AS GOOD AS NEW. WELL LET US GO AND HAVE TEA SAID PENELOPE I'M DECIDEDLY HUNGRY. BESIDES I SEE THE POVERTY PUCKER COMING. IT IS SOMETHING TO POSSESS AN HEIRLOOM AFTER ALL. I WONDER IF GRANDMOTHER HUNTER'S REPROACHFUL SPIRIT WILL FOREVER HAUNT ME IF I DO IT. IF AUNT ADELLA SAW ME NOW SHE LAUGHED SOFTLY TO HERSELF AS SHE WORKED. IN THE THREE FOLLOWING EVENINGS DORIS MADE THE WAIST

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+IT WILL BE SUCH A NICE SURPRISE FOR HER THE SISTER MUSED JUBILANTLY. PENELOPE WAS SURPRISED AS MUCH AS THE TENDER SISTERLY HEART COULD WISH WHEN DORIS FLASHED OUT UPON HER TRIUMPHANTLY ON THE EVENING OF THE PARTY WITH THE BLACK SKIRT NICELY PRESSED AND RE HUNG AND THE PRETTIEST WAIST IMAGINABLE A WAIST THAT WAS A POSITIVE CREATION OF DAINTY ROSE BESPRINKLED SILK WITH A GIRDLE AND KNOTS OF BLACK VELVET. DORIS HUNTER YOU ARE A VERITABLE LITTLE WITCH. SO PENELOPE WENT TO BLANCHE'S PARTY AND HER DRESS WAS THE ADMIRATION OF EVERY GIRL THERE. PENELOPE THOUGHT HER ALTOGETHER CHARMING. SHE LOOKS AS IF SHE HAD JUST STEPPED OUT OF THE FRAME OF SOME LOVELY OLD PICTURE SHE SAID TO HERSELF. I WISH SHE BELONGED TO ME I'D JUST LOVE TO HAVE A GRANDMOTHER LIKE HER. IF MY SISTER DORIS LIVES TO BE SEVENTY YEARS OLD AND WEARS HER HAIR IN PRETTY WHITE PUFFS SHE WILL LOOK EXACTLY AS MISSUS FAIRWEATHER DOES NOW. MISSUS FAIRWEATHER ASKED TO HAVE PENELOPE INTRODUCED TO HER AND WHEN THEY FOUND THEMSELVES ALONE TOGETHER SHE SAID GENTLY MY DEAR I AM GOING TO ASK A VERY IMPERTINENT QUESTION. MY AUNT ADELLA GAVE ME GAVE US THE MATERIAL SHE STAMMERED. I AM NAMED AFTER HER MISSUS FAIRWEATHER SUDDENLY PUT HER ARM ABOUT PENELOPE AND DREW THE YOUNG GIRL TO HER HER LOVELY OLD FACE AGLOW WITH DELIGHT AND TENDERNESS. THEN YOU ARE MY GRANDNIECE SHE SAID. YOUR GRANDMOTHER WAS MY HALF SISTER. WHEN I SAW YOUR DRESS I FELT SURE YOU WERE RELATED TO HER I SHOULD RECOGNIZE THAT ROSEBUD SILK IF I CAME ACROSS IT IN THIBET. PENELOPE WAS FOUR YEARS OLDER THAN I WAS BUT WE WERE DEVOTED TO EACH OTHER. ODDLY ENOUGH OUR BIRTHDAYS FELL ON THE SAME DAY AND WHEN PENELOPE WAS TWENTY AND I SIXTEEN MY FATHER GAVE US EACH A SILK DRESS OF THIS VERY MATERIAL I HAVE MINE YET. SOON AFTER THIS OUR MOTHER DIED AND OUR HOUSEHOLD WAS BROKEN UP. THIS WAS LONG AGO YOU KNOW WHEN TRAVELLING AND CORRESPONDENCE WERE NOT THE EASY MATTER OF COURSE THINGS THEY ARE NOW. AFTER A FEW YEARS I LOST TOUCH WITH MY HALF SISTER. I MARRIED OUT WEST AND HAVE LIVED THERE ALL MY LIFE I NEVER KNEW WHAT HAD BECOME OF PENELOPE. MY DEAR I AM A VERY LONELY OLD WOMAN WITH NOBODY BELONGING TO ME. YOU DON'T KNOW HOW DELIGHTED I AM TO FIND THAT I HAVE TWO GRANDNIECES PENELOPE HAD LISTENED SILENTLY LIKE A GIRL IN A DREAM. NOW SHE PATTED MISSUS FAIRWEATHER'S SOFT OLD HAND AFFECTIONATELY. IT SOUNDS LIKE A STORYBOOK SHE SAID GAILY. MISSUS FAIRWEATHER DID GO TO SEE DORIS THE VERY NEXT DAY AND QUITE WONDERFUL THINGS CAME TO PASS FROM THAT INTERVIEW. DORIS AND PENELOPE FOUND THEIR LIVES AND PLANS CHANGED IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE. PENELOPE WAS TO HAVE AT LAST HER LONGED FOR MUSICAL EDUCATION AND DORIS WAS TO BE THE HOME GIRL. YOU MUST TAKE THE PLACE OF MY OWN DEAR LITTLE GRANDDAUGHTER SAID AUNT ESTHER. SHE DIED SIX YEARS AGO AND I HAVE BEEN SO LONELY SINCE. WHEN MISSUS FAIRWEATHER HAD GONE DORIS AND PENELOPE LOOKED AT EACH OTHER

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+SHE HAD MILKED EIGHT COWS AND PUMPED WATER FOR THE MILK CANS AFTERWARD IN THE FAG END OF A HOT SUMMER DAY. THIS MONTHLY LETTER WAS THE ONLY PLEASURE AND STIMULANT IN HER LIFE. AS SHE SLIPPED INTO HER BLUE PRINT AFTERNOON DRESS HER AUNT CALLED TO HER FROM BELOW. SIDNEY RAN OUT TO THE DARK LITTLE ENTRY AND LEANED OVER THE STAIR RAILING. AUNT JANE WAS STANDING AT THE FOOT OF THE STAIRS WITH A LAMP IN ONE HAND AND A YEAR OLD BABY CLINGING TO THE OTHER. SHE WAS A BIG SHAPELESS WOMAN WITH A ROUND GOOD NATURED FACE CHEERFUL AND VULGAR AS A SUNFLOWER WAS AUNT JANE AT ALL TIMES AND OCCASIONS. I WANT TO RUN OVER AND SEE HOW MISSUS BRIXBY IS THIS EVENING SIDDY AND YOU MUST TAKE CARE OF THE BABY TILL I GET BACK. SIDNEY SIGHED AND WENT DOWNSTAIRS FOR THE BABY. ALL HER DAYS WERE ALIKE AS FAR AS HARD WORK AND DULLNESS WENT BUT SHE ACCEPTED THEM CHEERFULLY AND UNCOMPLAININGLY. BUT SHE DID RESENT HAVING TO LOOK AFTER THE BABY WHEN SHE WANTED TO WRITE HER LETTER. SHE GOT OUT HER BOX OF PAPER AND SAT DOWN BY THE LITTLE TABLE AT THE WINDOW WITH A SMALL KEROSENE LAMP AT HER ELBOW. THE ROOM WAS SMALL A MERE BOX ABOVE THE KITCHEN WHICH SIDNEY SHARED WITH TWO SMALL COUSINS. HER BED AND THE COT WHERE THE LITTLE GIRLS SLEPT FILLED UP ALMOST ALL THE AVAILABLE SPACE. JUST AT THAT PARTICULAR ANGLE ONE EYE APPEARED TO BE AS LARGE AS AN ORANGE WHILE THE OTHER WAS THE SIZE OF A PEA AND THE MOUTH ZIGZAGGED FROM EAR TO EAR. SIDNEY HATED THAT MIRROR AS VIRULENTLY AS SHE COULD HATE ANYTHING. IT SEEMED TO HER TO TYPIFY ALL THAT WAS UNLOVELY IN HER LIFE. HER MOTHER HAD DIED THE DAY AFTER AND SIDNEY THEREUPON HAD COME INTO THE HANDS OF GOOD AUNT JANE WITH THOSE BOOKS FOR HER DOWRY SINCE NOTHING ELSE WAS LEFT AFTER THE EXPENSES OF THE DOUBLE FUNERAL HAD BEEN PAID. ONE OF THE BOOKS HAD SIDNEY RICHMOND'S NAME PRINTED ON THE TITLE PAGE INSTEAD OF WRITTEN ON THE FLYLEAF. PRESENTLY SHE BEGAN TO WRITE WITH A FLUSH OF REAL EXCITEMENT ON HER FACE. HER SOUL AND UNDERSTANDING WERE ELSEWHERE. FOUR YEARS BEFORE WHEN SIDNEY WAS SIXTEEN STILL CALLING HERSELF A SCHOOLGIRL BY REASON OF THE FACT THAT SHE COULD BE SPARED TO ATTEND SCHOOL FOUR MONTHS IN THE WINTER WHEN WORK WAS SLACK SHE HAD BEEN MUCH INTERESTED IN THE MAPLE LEAF DEPARTMENT OF THE MONTREAL WEEKLY HER UNCLE TOOK. ONLY ONE ANSWER CAME TO ELLEN DOUGLAS AND THAT WAS FORWARDED TO HER BY THE LONG SUFFERING EDITOR OF THE MAPLE LEAF. IT WAS FROM JOHN LINCOLN OF THE BAR N RANCH ALBERTA. HE WROTE THAT ALTHOUGH HIS AGE DEBARRED HIM FROM MEMBERSHIP IN THE CLUB HE WAS TWENTY AND THE LIMIT WAS EIGHTEEN HE READ THE LETTERS OF THE DEPARTMENT WITH MUCH INTEREST AND OFTEN HAD THOUGHT OF ANSWERING SOME OF THE REQUESTS FOR CORRESPONDENTS. HE NEVER HAD DONE SO BUT ELLEN DOUGLAS'S LETTER WAS SO INTERESTING THAT HE HAD DECIDED TO WRITE TO HER. WOULD SHE BE KIND ENOUGH TO CORRESPOND WITH HIM. HE WAS TWO YEARS OUT FROM THE EAST AND HAD NOT YET FORGOTTEN TO BE HOMESICK AT TIMES. SIDNEY LIKED THE LETTER AND ANSWERED IT. SINCE THEN THEY HAD WRITTEN TO EACH OTHER REGULARLY. THERE WAS NOTHING SENTIMENTAL HINTED AT OR IMPLIED IN THE CORRESPONDENCE. SHE NEVER EXPECTED TO MEET JOHN LINCOLN NOR DID SHE WISH TO DO SO. IN THE CORRESPONDENCE ITSELF SHE FOUND HER PLEASURE

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+JOHN LINCOLN WROTE BREEZY ACCOUNTS OF RANCH LIFE AND ADVENTURES ON THE FAR WESTERN PLAINS SO ALIEN AND REMOTE FROM SNUG HUMDRUM PLAINFIELD LIFE THAT SIDNEY ALWAYS HAD THE SENSATION OF CROSSING A GULF WHEN SHE OPENED A LETTER FROM THE BAR N AS FOR SIDNEY'S OWN LETTER THIS IS THE WAY IT READ AS SHE WROTE IT. THE EVERGREENS PLAINFIELD DEAR MISTER LINCOLN. I LOVE LIFE AND ITS BLOOM AND BRILLIANCY I LOVE MEETING NEW PEOPLE I LOVE THE RIPPLE OF MUSIC THE HUM OF LAUGHTER AND CONVERSATION. ON MY WAY HOME AFTER THE BRADDON PEOPLE HAD LEFT US SOMEBODY ASKED ME HOW I LIKED PAUL MOORE. THE MAN I HAD BEEN TALKING WITH WAS PAUL MOORE THE GREAT NOVELIST. AS IT WAS I HAD CONTRADICTED HIM TWICE AND HE HAD LAUGHED AND LIKED IT BUT HIS BOOKS WILL ALWAYS HAVE A NEW MEANING TO ME HENCEFORTH THROUGH THE INSIGHT HE HIMSELF HAS GIVEN ME. IT IS SUCH MEETINGS AS THESE THAT GIVE LIFE ITS SPARKLE FOR ME. YOU WILL BE WEARY OF MY RHAPSODIES OVER HER. SHE HAS SYMPATHY AND UNDERSTANDING FOR MY EVERY MOOD. I LOVE LIFE SO MUCH FOR GIVING ME SUCH A FRIENDSHIP. I HAD A DELIGHTFUL RUN AWAY. THE REST OF THE FOLKS WERE JUST COMING DOWNSTAIRS WHEN I GOT BACK TO BREAKFAST. YOURS SINCERELY SIDNEY RICHMOND. AUNT JANE CAME HOME PRESENTLY AND CARRIED AWAY HER SLEEPING BABY SIDNEY SAID HER PRAYERS WENT TO BED AND SLEPT SOUNDLY AND SERENELY SHE MAILED HER LETTER THE NEXT DAY AND A MONTH LATER AN ANSWER CAME. IT IS SIX YEARS SINCE I WAS HOME AND IT SEEMS LIKE THREE TIMES SIX. I SHALL GO BY THE C P R WHICH PASSES THROUGH PLAINFIELD AND I MEAN TO STOP OFF FOR A DAY. YOU WILL LET ME CALL AND SEE YOU WON'T YOU. SIDNEY DID NOT SLEEP THAT NIGHT BUT TOSSED RESTLESSLY ABOUT OR CRIED IN HER PILLOW. NOTHING SAID SIDNEY SHARPLY. SIDNEY HAD NEVER SPOKEN SHARPLY TO HER AUNT BEFORE. THE GOOD WOMAN SHOOK HER HEAD. I'LL FIX YOU A DOSE OF QUININE. ANY DAY ANY HOUR MIGHT BRING JOHN LINCOLN TO PLAINFIELD. BUT HE WOULD FIND OUT THE TRUTH JUST THE SAME SHE WOULD LOSE HIS FRIENDSHIPS AND RESPECT JUST AS SURELY. SIDNEY TROD THE WAY OF THE TRANSGRESSOR AND FOUND THAT ITS THORNS PIERCED TO BONE AND MARROW. OH JIM CONWAY'S PLACE SAID CALEB. YOU SEE THAT ROAD OUT THAR. AND THERE WAS NO HARBOUR OR GLIMPSE OF DISTANT SEA VISIBLE. HAD THE HOTEL KEEPER MADE A MISTAKE. THERE IS NO OTHER JAMES CONWAY IN PLAINFIELD SAID THE GIRL. THIS IS HIS PLACE NOBODY CALLS IT THE EVERGREENS BUT MYSELF. I DON'T UNDERSTAND HE SAID PERPLEXEDLY. OH SIDNEY THREW OUT HER HANDS IN A BURST OF PASSIONATE PROTEST. NO AND YOU NEVER WILL UNDERSTAND I CAN'T MAKE YOU UNDERSTAND. I DON'T UNDERSTAND SAID JOHN LINCOLN AGAIN. CAN YOU BE SIDNEY RICHMOND THE SIDNEY RICHMOND WHO HAS WRITTEN TO ME FOR FOUR YEARS I AM. THEN THOSE LETTERS WERE ALL LIES SAID SIDNEY BLUNTLY AND DESPERATELY. THERE WAS NOTHING TRUE IN THEM NOTHING AT ALL. THIS IS MY HOME WE ARE POOR. EVERYTHING I TOLD YOU ABOUT IT AND MY LIFE WAS JUST IMAGINATION. THEN WHY DID YOU WRITE THEM HE ASKED BLANKLY. WHY DID YOU DECEIVE ME. OH I DIDN'T MEAN TO DECEIVE YOU I NEVER THOUGHT OF SUCH A THING

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+WHEN YOU ASKED ME TO WRITE TO YOU I WANTED TO BUT I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO WRITE ABOUT TO A STRANGER. I JUST COULDN'T WRITE YOU ABOUT MY LIFE HERE NOT BECAUSE IT WAS HARD BUT IT WAS SO UGLY AND EMPTY. SO I WROTE INSTEAD OF THE LIFE I WANTED TO LIVE THE LIFE I DID LIVE IN IMAGINATION. AND WHEN ONCE I HAD BEGUN I HAD TO KEEP IT UP. I FOUND IT SO FASCINATING TOO. THOSE LETTERS MADE THAT OTHER LIFE SEEM REAL TO ME I NEVER EXPECTED TO MEET YOU. THESE LAST FOUR DAYS SINCE YOUR LETTER CAME HAVE BEEN DREADFUL TO ME. OH PLEASE GO AWAY AND FORGIVE ME IF YOU CAN. I KNOW I CAN NEVER MAKE YOU UNDERSTAND HOW IT CAME ABOUT SIDNEY TURNED AWAY AND HID HER BURNING FACE AGAINST THE COOL WHITE BARK OF THE BIRCH TREE BEHIND HER. IT WAS WORSE THAN SHE HAD EVEN THOUGHT IT WOULD BE. HE WAS SO HANDSOME SO MANLY SO EARNEST EYED. OH WHAT A FRIEND TO LOSE. JOHN LINCOLN OPENED THE GATE AND WENT UP TO HER. PLEASE DON'T DISTRESS YOURSELF SO SIDNEY HE SAID UNCONSCIOUSLY USING HER CHRISTIAN NAME. I THINK I DO UNDERSTAND. I'M NOT SUCH A DULL FELLOW AS YOU TAKE ME FOR. AFTER ALL THOSE LETTERS WERE TRUE OR RATHER THERE WAS TRUTH IN THEM. YOU REVEALED YOURSELF MORE FAITHFULLY IN THEM THAN IF YOU HAD WRITTEN TRULY ABOUT YOUR NARROW OUTWARD LIFE. THIS YOUNG MAN WAS CERTAINLY GOOD AT UNDERSTANDING. YOU YOU'LL FORGIVE ME THEN SHE STAMMERED. YES IF THERE IS ANYTHING TO FORGIVE. AND FOR MY OWN PART I AM GLAD YOU ARE NOT WHAT I HAVE ALWAYS THOUGHT YOU WERE

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+HALLO COLONEL HOW D'YE SELL YOUR WOOD THIS TIME. WHY CAPTING WE MUST CHARGE YOU THREE AND A QUARTER THIS TIME THE D L. SUPPER WAS OVER AND I RETIRED TO MY UPPER BERTH SITUATED ALONGSIDE AND OVERLOOKING THE BRAG TABLE WHERE THE CAPTAIN WAS DEEPLY ENGAGED HAVING NOW THE OTHER PILOT AS HIS PRINCIPAL OPPONENT. HEAD HER IN SHORE THEN AND TAKE IN SIX CORDS IF IT'S GOOD SEE TO IT THOMPSON I CAN'T VERY WELL LEAVE THE GAME NOW IT'S GETTING RIGHT WARM. THIS PILOT'S BEATING US ALL TO SMASH THE WOODING COMPLETED WE PADDLED ON AGAIN. THEY WERE ANXIOUS TO LEARN THE GAME AND THEY DID LEARN IT. STILL WITH ALL THESE DISADVANTAGES THEY CONTINUED PLAYING THEY WANTED TO LEARN THE GAME. OH PRETTY GLIBLY SIR REPLIED THE MATE WE CAN SCARCELY TELL WHAT HEADWAY WE ARE MAKING FOR WE ARE OBLIGED TO KEEP THE MIDDLE OF THE RIVER AND THERE IS THE SHADOW OF A FOG RISING. THIS WOOD SEEMS RATHER BETTER THAN THAT WE TOOK IN AT YELLOW FACE'S BUT WE'RE NEARLY OUT AGAIN AND MUST BE LOOKING OUT FOR MORE. I SAW A LIGHT JUST AHEAD ON THE RIGHT SHALL WE HAIL. YES YES REPLIED THE CAPTAIN RING THE BELL AND ASK EM WHAT'S THE PRICE OF WOOD UP HERE. I'VE GOT YOU AGAIN HERE'S DOUBLE KINGS. DEAL SIR IF YOU PLEASE BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME. THE OTHER PILOT'S VOICE WAS AGAIN HEARD ON DECK HOW MUCH HAVE YOU. ONLY ABOUT TEN CORDS SIR WAS THE REPLY OF THE YOUTHFUL SALESMAN. THE CAPTAIN HERE TOLD THOMPSON TO TAKE SIX CORDS WHICH WOULD LAST TILL DAYLIGHT AND AGAIN TURNED HIS ATTENTION TO THE GAME. THE PILOTS HERE CHANGED PLACES WHEN DID THEY SLEEP. WOOD TAKEN IN THE CARAVAN AGAIN TOOK HER PLACE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREAM PADDLING ON AS USUAL DAY AT LENGTH DAWNED. I HAD RISEN AND WENT OUT WITH THE CAPTAIN TO ENJOY A VIEW OF THE BLUFFS. THERE IT IS EXCLAIMED THE CAPTAIN STOP HER

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+I ACCOMPANY MY GRANDDAUGHTER TO THIS THIS ENTERTAINMENT HER LADYSHIP RESPONDED. IT IS SCARCELY A JOYOUS OCCASION TO MY MIND. NO NEED TO DRESS YOURSELF LIKE THAT IF IT ISN'T EJACULATED MISTER BINNIE. IF I WERE SURE THIS WAS THE SAME MAN I'D GO MYSELF. WHEN I FIND A FELLOW WHO'S NEITHER KNAVE NOR FOOL I STICK TO HIM BELIEVE I'LL SEND TO FIND OUT. THE ONLY TIME HE HAD MADE ANY COMMENT UPON HER WAS THE FIRST TIME HE SAW HER IN THE DRESS SHE HAD COPIED FROM OCTAVIA'S NICE GOWN THAT HE BLURTED OUT DIDN'T GET IT HERE I'LL WAGER. DOESN'T LOOK LIKE IT HE SAID GRUFFLY. NO SHE ANSWERED I AM NOT AFRAID AT ALL. I SHALL NOT BE AFRAID AGAIN. IN FACT SHE HAD PERFECTLY CONFOUNDED HER LADYSHIP BY HER DEMEANOR. I BEG YOU WILL NOT SPEAK TO ME OF THAT AGAIN SHE SAID I WILL NOT LISTEN. AND TURNING ABOUT SHE WALKED OUT OF THE ROOM. AND NOTHING MORE HAD BEEN SAID ON THE SUBJECT SINCE. BEFORE BREAKFAST MISS BELINDA WAS STARTLED BY THE ARRIVAL OF ANOTHER TELEGRAM WHICH RAN AS FOLLOWS. ARRIVED TO DAY PER RUSSIA BE WITH YOU TOMORROW EVENING. FRIEND WITH ME MARTIN BASSETT. WELL REMARKED OCTAVIA I SUPPOSE THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN AN ADVANTAGE. OCTAVIA WAS A MARKED FIGURE UPON THE GROUNDS AT THAT GARDEN PARTY ANOTHER DRESS MY DEAR REMARKED MISSUS BURNHAM. AND WHAT A CHARMING COLOR SHE HAS I DECLARE SHE IS USUALLY PALER. PERHAPS WE OWE THIS TO LORD LANSDOWNE. SHE'S PRETTIER THAN EVER TO DAY AND IS ENJOYING HERSELF. SHE WAS ENJOYING HERSELF MISTER FRANCIS BAROLD OBSERVED IT RATHER GLOOMILY AS HE STOOD APART. AND THEN HAD COME LORD LANSDOWNE WHO IN CROSSING THE LAWN TO SHAKE HANDS WITH HIS HOST HAD BEEN OBSERVED TO KEEP HIS EYE FIXED UPON ONE PARTICULAR POINT BURMISTONE HE SAID AFTER HAVING SPOKEN HIS FIRST WORDS WHO IS THAT TALL GIRL IN WHITE. AND IN TEN MINUTES LADY THEOBALD MISSUS BURNHAM MISTER BAROLD AND DIVERS OTHERS TOO NUMEROUS TO MENTION SAW HIM STANDING AT OCTAVIA'S SIDE EVIDENTLY WITH NO INTENTION OF LEAVING IT. NOT LONG AFTER THIS FRANCIS BAROLD FOUND HIS WAY TO MISS BELINDA WHO WAS VERY BUSY AND RATHER NERVOUS YOUR NIECE IS EVIDENTLY ENJOYING HERSELF HE REMARKED. OCTAVIA IS MOST HAPPY TO DAY ANSWERED MISS BELINDA. VERY FEW PEOPLE UNDERSTAND OCTAVIA SAID MISS BELINDA I'M NOT SURE THAT I FOLLOW ALL HER MOODS MYSELF. SHE IS NOT AS FRIVOLOUS AS SHE APPEARS TO THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW HER WELL. BAROLD STOOD GNAWING HIS MUSTACHE AND MADE NO REPLY HE WAS NOT VERY COMFORTABLE. HE FELT HIMSELF ILL USED BY FATE AND RATHER WISHED HE HAD RETURNED TO LONDON FROM BROADOAKS INSTEAD OF LOITERING IN SLOWBRIDGE. HE HAD AMUSED HIMSELF AT FIRST BUT IN TIME HE HAD BEEN SURPRISED TO FIND HIS AMUSEMENT LOSE SOMETHING OF ITS ZEST. IT'S DEUCEDLY BAD FORM ON HIS PART HE SAID MENTALLY WHAT DOES HE MEAN BY IT. OCTAVIA ON THE CONTRARY DID NOT ASK WHAT HE MEANT BY IT. WHERE HE EJACULATED I SAY WHAT A NAME. I HAD NOT OBSERVED IT ANSWERED HER LADYSHIP. BUT SHE GLARED AT BAROLD AS HE PASSED AND BECKONED TO HIM WHERE IS LUCIA SHE DEMANDED. I SAW HER WITH BURMISTONE HALF AN HOUR AGO HE ANSWERED COLDLY HAVE YOU ANY MESSAGE FOR MY MOTHER I SHALL RETURN TO LONDON TO MORROW LEAVING HERE EARLY SHE TURNED QUITE PALE. WHAT HAS HAPPENED SHE ASKED RIGIDLY HE LOOKED SLIGHTLY SURPRISED NOTHING WHATEVER HE REPLIED. I HAVE REMAINED HERE LONGER THAN I INTENDED. SHE BEGAN TO MOVE THE MANACLES ON HER RIGHT WRIST. SHE HAD NOT BROUGHT LUCIA UP UNDER HER OWN EYE FOR NOTHING

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+KANTICHANDRA WAS YOUNG YET AFTER HIS WIFE'S DEATH HE SOUGHT NO SECOND PARTNER AND GAVE HIS MIND TO THE HUNTING OF BEASTS AND BIRDS. HIS BODY WAS LONG AND SLENDER HARD AND AGILE HIS SIGHT KEEN HIS AIM UNERRING. HE HAD NO LACK OF IDLE FOLLOWERS. IN THE MONTH OF AGRAHAYAN KANTI HAD GONE OUT SHOOTING NEAR THE SWAMP OF NYDIGHI WITH A FEW SPORTING COMPANIONS. THEY WERE IN BOATS AND AN ARMY OF SERVANTS IN BOATS ALSO FILLED THE BATHING GHATS. THE VILLAGE WOMEN FOUND IT WELL NIGH IMPOSSIBLE TO BATHE OR TO DRAW WATER. ALL DAY LONG LAND AND WATER TREMBLED TO THE FIRING OF THE GUNS AND EVERY EVENING MUSICIANS KILLED THE CHANCE OF SLEEP. ONE MORNING AS KANTI WAS SEATED IN HIS BOAT CLEANING A FAVOURITE GUN HE SUDDENLY STARTED AT WHAT HE THOUGHT WAS THE CRY OF WILD DUCK LOOKING UP HE SAW A VILLAGE MAIDEN COMING TO THE WATER'S EDGE WITH TWO WHITE DUCKLINGS CLASPED TO HER BREAST. THE LITTLE STREAM WAS ALMOST STAGNANT MANY WEEDS CHOKED THE CURRENT. THE GIRL PUT THE BIRDS INTO THE WATER AND WATCHED THEM ANXIOUSLY. IN ANOTHER MOMENT SHE HAD LEFT THE RIVER BANK AND DISAPPEARED INTO THE BAMBOO THICKET HARD BY. LOOKING ROUND KANTI SAW ONE OF HIS MEN POINTING AN UNLOADED GUN AT THE DUCKS. KANTI WENT ON CLEANING HIS GUN. THE ELDER MAN WELCOMED HIM WITH EAGER HOSPITALITY AND OFFERING HIM A SEAT ON THE BENCH WENT INSIDE AND FETCHED WITH HIS OWN HANDS A LITTLE BRASS PLATE OF SUGAR WAFERS AND A BELL METAL VESSEL FULL OF WATER. AFTER KANTI HAD EATEN AND DRUNK THE BRAHMIN BEGGED HIM TO INTRODUCE HIMSELF KANTI GAVE HIS OWN NAME HIS FATHER'S NAME AND THE ADDRESS OF HIS HOME AND THEN SAID IN THE USUAL WAY IF I CAN BE OF ANY SERVICE SIR I SHALL DEEM MYSELF FORTUNATE. IT IS MY DAUGHTER SUDHA WHO IS GROWING UP KANTI SMILED AS HE THOUGHT OF HER BABYISH FACE AND FOR WHOM I HAVE NOT YET BEEN ABLE TO FIND A WORTHY BRIDEGROOM. SO SAYING KANTI REPEATED HIS SALUTE AND WENT BACK. HE THEN SENT SOME OF HIS MEN INTO THE VILLAGE TO INQUIRE AND IN ANSWER HEARD NOTHING BUT PRAISE OF THE BEAUTY AND VIRTUES OF THE BRAHMIN'S DAUGHTER. WHEN NEXT DAY THE OLD MAN CAME TO THE BOAT ON HIS PROMISED VISIT KANTI BENT LOW IN SALUTATION AND BEGGED THE HAND OF HIS DAUGHTER FOR HIMSELF. AS YOU ARE SO GENEROUSLY TAKING HER ON TRUST MAY SHE NEVER CAUSE YOU A MOMENT'S REGRET THIS IS MY BLESSING. THE BRICK BUILT MANSION OF THE MAZUMDARS HAD BEEN BORROWED FOR THE WEDDING CEREMONY WHICH WAS FIXED FOR NEXT MAGH AS KANTI DID NOT WISH TO DELAY. IN DUE TIME THE BRIDEGROOM ARRIVED ON HIS ELEPHANT WITH DRUMS AND MUSIC AND WITH A TORCHLIGHT PROCESSION AND THE CEREMONY BEGAN. WHEN THE BRIDAL COUPLE WERE COVERED WITH THE SCARLET SCREEN FOR THE RITE OF THE AUSPICIOUS VISION KANTI LOOKED UP AT HIS BRIDE. IN THAT BASHFUL DOWNCAST FACE CROWNED WITH THE WEDDING CORONET AND BEDECKED WITH SANDAL PASTE HE COULD SCARCELY RECOGNISE THE VILLAGE MAIDEN OF HIS FANCY AND IN THE FULNESS OF HIS EMOTION A MIST SEEMED TO BECLOUD HIS EYES. AS HE DID SO HE STARTED BACK. THE LIGHT OF THE LAMPS SEEMED TO GROW DIM AND DARKNESS TO TARNISH THE FACE OF THE BRIDE HERSELF. AT FIRST HE FELT ANGRY WITH HIS FATHER IN LAW THE OLD SCOUNDREL HAD SHOWN HIM ONE GIRL AND MARRIED HIM TO ANOTHER. BUT ON CALMER REFLECTION HE REMEMBERED THAT THE OLD MAN HAD NOT SHOWN HIM ANY DAUGHTER AT ALL THAT IT WAS ALL HIS OWN FAULT HE THOUGHT IT BEST NOT TO SHOW HIS ARRANT FOLLY TO THE WORLD AND TOOK HIS PLACE AGAIN WITH APPARENT CALMNESS. HE COULD SWALLOW THE POWDER HE COULD NOT GET RID OF ITS TASTE. CLOSE UPON IT FOLLOWED THE GIRL HE HAD SEEN BEFORE. OH THE MAD GIRL CRIED THE WOMEN AS THEY MADE SIGNS TO HER TO LEAVE THE ROOM. THE GIRL SWAYED BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS BUT GAVE NO REPLY. ALL THE WOMEN IN THE ROOM BEGAN TO TITTER. THE INCREASING LAUGHTER IN THE ROOM BETOKENED AN AMUSING JOKE. KANTI NOW RECEIVED A SECOND SHOCK A BLACK SCREEN LIFTED FROM BEFORE HIS EYES

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+OUT OF CURIOSITY HE HUNG ONE OF THEM OUTSIDE HIS HOUSE. HE GAVE A FEAST IN HONOUR OF HIS ACQUISITION OF WEALTH. HE WAS SUBSEQUENTLY OUTCASTED FOR HIS MESALLIANCE WITH THE LOW CASTE FEMALE WHILE THOSE WHO ATE WITH HIM WERE PUT UNDER A BAN AND THUS ACQUIRED THE NICKNAME. THE VILLAGE GODDESS AT NANGAVARAM IN THE TRICHINOPOLY DISTRICT IS CALLED SATTANDI AMMAN AND HER IDOL REPRESENTS HER IN THE ACT OF WEAVING A GARLAND OF SCORPIONS. IT IS GENERALLY SUPPOSED THAT NO SCORPION CAN LIVE IN THIS VILLAGE AND THAT THE SACRED ASHES FROM SATTANDI AMMAN'S SHRINE ARE A SPECIFIC FOR SCORPION STINGS. BENEATH THE FLOOR OF THE MANTAPAM THERE IS A LARGE NUMBER OF SCORPIONS. THE IMMUNITY MAY POSSIBLY HAVE BEEN THE RESULT OF INNATE IDIOSYNCRATIC PECULIARITY IN THE CONSTITUTION OF THE PERFORMER OR MORE PROBABLY REPRESENTED THE OUTCOME OF ARTIFICIAL EXEMPTION ACQUIRED AT THE EXPENSE OF REPEATED INOCULATIONS WITH THE VIRUS AND CORRESPONDING DEVELOPMENT OF ITS ANTITOXIN. IN A LETTER TO A MEDICAL OFFICER A NATIVE WROTE THAT WHEN A PREGNANT WOMAN IS STUNG BY A SCORPION THE CHILD WHICH IS IN THE WOMB AT THE TIME OF SUCH STINGING WHEN DELIVERED DOES NOT SUFFER FROM THE STING OF A SCORPION IF EVER IT IS STUNG DURING ITS LIFETIME. ON THAT DAY THE SAKUNA PAKSHI BATHES CUTS OFF HIS LOIN CLOTH AND GOES STARK NAKED TO A SELECTED SPOT WHERE HE GATHERS THE ROOTS. IN CASES OF SCORPION STING DOMMARA MEDICINE MEN RUB UP PATENT BOLUSES WITH HUMAN MILK OR JUICE OF THE MILK HEDGE PLANT EUPHORBIA TIRUCALLI AND APPLY THEM TO THE PARTS. THE EXCREMENT OF LIZARDS FED ON SCORPIONS AND THE UNDIGESTED FOOD IN THE STOMACH OF A FRESHLY KILLED GOAT DRIED AND REDUCED TO POWDER ARE ALSO BELIEVED TO BE EFFECTIVE REMEDIES. THE WHIP SCORPION THELYPHONUS IS BELIEVED TO BE VENOMOUS SOME NATIVES STATING THAT IT STINGS LIKE A SCORPION OTHERS THAT IT EJECTS A SLIMY FLUID WHICH BURNS AND PRODUCES BLISTERS. WHEN THE UMBILICAL CORD OF A KONDH BABY SLOUGHS OFF A SPIDER IS BURNT IN THE FIRE AND ITS ASHES ARE PLACED IN A COCOANUT SHELL MIXED WITH CASTOR OIL AND APPLIED BY MEANS OF A FOWL'S FEATHER TO THE NAVEL. THEY THEN CALL THE DEAD MAN BY HIS NAME AND EAGERLY WAIT TILL SOME INSECT SETTLES ON THE CLOTH. A LIGHT IS THEN PLACED ON THE SANDED FLOOR AND COVERED WITH A NEW POT. AFTER SOME TIME THE POT IS REMOVED AND THE SAND EXAMINED FOR ANY MARKS WHICH MAY BE LEFT ON IT. A DEVIL IN THE DISGUISE OF A DUNG BEETLE OF LARGE SIZE IS BELIEVED TO HAUNT THE HOUSE WHEREIN A BABY HAS BEEN NEWLY BORN AND THE IMPACT OF THE INSECT AGAINST THE INFANT WILL BRING ABOUT ITS INSTANT DEATH. ARRIVING AT HIS HOME HE RETIRED TO REST AND WAS FOUND DEAD IN THE MORNING. BLOOD WAS DESCRIBED AS OOZING OUT OF HIS EYES. MAKE THE PATIENT SUCK THE MILK OF THE BREAST OF A WOMAN WHOSE BABY IS MORE THAN EIGHTY DAYS OLD. THE ANTIDOTE WAS SAID TO BE SALT AND WATER AND THE LEAVES OF THE GOA GUAVA TREE. HIS CAMP BOY TOLD HIM OF A CASE IN WHICH DEATH WAS SAID TO HAVE RESULTED FROM EATING ONE OF THESE ANIMALS COOKED WITH SOME JAK FRUIT. A FEW YEARS AGO A SCARE AROSE IN CONNECTION WITH AN INSECT WHICH WAS SAID TO HAVE TAKEN UP ITS ABODE IN IMPORTED GERMAN GLASS BANGLES WHICH COMPETE WITH THE INDIGENOUS INDUSTRY OF THE GAZULA BANGLE MAKERS THE INSECT WAS REPORTED TO LIE LOW IN THE BANGLE TILL IT WAS PURCHASED WHEN IT WOULD COME OUT AND NIP THE WEARER AFTER WARNING HER TO GET HER AFFAIRS IN ORDER BEFORE SUCCUMBING

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+A SPECIMEN OF A BROKEN BANGLE FROM WHICH THE INSECT WAS SAID TO HAVE BURST FORTH WAS SENT TO ME. BUT THE INSECT WAS NOT FORTHCOMING

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+NO THIS IS A NEW PATENTED PROCESS. SAM DREW A SQUARE OF TIN FROM THE BOX. I DON'T SEE ANY PICTURE GROWLED SNUGGERS LOOKING AT THE SQUARE BLANKLY. IT'S A LITTLE FRESH YET. THE BOYS GATHERED AROUND SET UP A SHOUT. YOUR GIRL WILL FALL IN LOVE WITH THAT PICTURE PELEG I'M CERTAIN OF IT. SAM ROVER I'LL GIT SQUARE SEE IF I DON'T. AND HE STARTED TO WALK OFF WHY WHAT'S THE MATTER. DEMANDED SAM INNOCENTLY ISN'T IT A GOOD PICTURE. I'LL PICTURE YOU. I THOUGHT I WAS DOING MY BEST. SHOW ME OFF FOR A DONKEY. IF IT WASN'T AGAINST THE RULES I'D I'D WOLLOP YOU. A DONKEY OH PELEG I DID NOTHING OF THE KIND. HERE IS YOUR PICTURE ON MY WORD OF HONOR. IT'S A DONKEY'S HEAD I SAY. AND I SAY IT'S YOUR PICTURE. I GUESS I KNOW A DONKEY'S HEAD WHEN I SEE IT MASTER ROVER. I DIDN'T EXPECT NO SUCH JOKE FROM YOU THOUGH YOUR BROTHER TOM MIGHT HAVE PLAYED IT. BOYS ISN'T THIS A GOOD PICTURE. DEMANDED SAM SHOWING UP THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TIN SQUARE. WHY SPLENDID CAME FROM THE CROWD. PELEG THERE IS SOME MISTAKE HERE. OH YOU CAN'T JOKE ME NO MORE. RETURNED THE UTILITY MAN BUT JUST LOOK PLEADED SAM. ISN'T THAT A GOOD PICTURE OF YOU. IF YOU DON'T SAY SO YOURSELF I'LL GIVE YOU FIVE DOLLARS

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+SHE HUMBLY BOWING DOWN SAID LET MY LORD PARDON HIS SERVANT FOR THE INJURY WHICH SHE HAS UNCONSCIOUSLY CAUSED. I AM AN APSARAS BORN FROM THE RAYS OF THE MOON. ONE DAY AS I WAS FLYING THROUGH THE AIR WEARING A WHITE DRESS A SWAN MISTAKING ME FOR A LOTUS FLOWER ATTACKED ME. IN HIS ANGER HE CURSED ME SAYING O WICKED ONE FOR THIS OFFENCE YOU ARE CONDEMNED TO BE CHANGED INTO A PIECE OF UNCONSCIOUS METAL. WHEN HOWEVER I ENTREATED FORGIVENESS HE WAS SO FAR APPEASED THAT HE MODIFIED THE CURSE AND GRANTED THAT I SHOULD STILL RETAIN CONSCIOUSNESS AND REMAIN AS A FETTER ON YOUR FEET FOR TWO MONTHS ONLY. THE CHANGE TOOK PLACE IMMEDIATELY AND I FELL TO THE GROUND TURNED INTO A SILVER CHAIN. ON HIS WAY HE SAW THE SILVER FETTER DESCENDED TO THE GROUND PICKED IT UP AND CONTINUED HIS FLIGHT. HAVING MADE HIMSELF INVISIBLE HE ENTERED WITHOUT DIFFICULTY THE APARTMENT OF THE PRINCESS AND WAS ASTONISHED AND ENRAGED ON FINDING HER LYING IN YOUR ARMS. YOU HAVE IN CONSEQUENCE SUFFERED ALL THIS MISERY. NOW MY TRANSFORMATION IS ENDED AND YOU ARE SO FAR FREE TELL ME WHAT I CAN DO FOR YOU IN ATONEMENT FOR THE SUFFERING WHICH I HAVE CAUSED. HELP CHANDAVARMA IS MURDERED. KILLED BY AN ASSASSIN WHO STABBED HIM AS HE WAS ABOUT TO TAKE THE HAND OF THE PRINCESS AND THAT MAN IS NOW MOVING ABOUT THE PALACE CUTTING DOWN ALL WHO ATTEMPT TO SEIZE HIM. RAJAVAHANA WHEN HE HEARD THIS WITHOUT LOSING A MOMENT AND BEFORE THE GUARDS HAD PERCEIVED HIS FEET TO BE UNFETTERED WITH A SUDDEN SPRING LEAPT ON THE ELEPHANT INTENDED FOR HIS DESTRUCTION AND HAVING THRUST OFF THE DRIVER URGED THE BEAST AT A RAPID PACE PUSHING ASIDE THE CROWD RIGHT AND LEFT AS HE WENT. HAVING GOT INTO THE COURTYARD HE SHOUTED WITH A LOUD VOICE WHO IS THE BRAVE MAN THAT HAS DONE THIS GREAT DEED HARDLY TO BE ACCOMPLISHED BY A MERE MORTAL. THE SLAYER OF CHANDAVARMA HEARING THIS CAME OUT OF THE PALACE AND QUICKLY MOUNTING THE ELEPHANT WHO HELD DOWN HIS TRUNK TO RECEIVE HIM PLACED HIMSELF BEHIND THE PRINCE. GREAT WAS THEIR MUTUAL ASTONISHMENT AND JOY WHEN THEY RECOGNISED EACH OTHER THE PRINCE EXCLAIMING IS IT POSSIBLE. IS IT REALLY YOU MY DEAR FRIEND APAHARAVARMA WHO HAVE DONE THIS DEED. THROUGH THESE THEY FORCED THEIR WAY EMPLOYING WITH GOOD EFFECT THE WEAPONS PLACED ON THE ELEPHANT FOR THE USE OF CHANDAVARMA. BEFORE HOWEVER THEY HAD GONE FAR THEY HEARD THE NOISE OF BATTLE AT A DISTANCE AND SAW THE SOLDIERS IN FRONT OF THEM SCATTERED IN ALL DIRECTIONS. WE HAVE JUST NOW ENCOUNTERED AND UTTERLY DEFEATED THE ENEMY SO THAT THERE IS NO FEAR OF ANY FURTHER RESISTANCE. RAJAVAHANA AGREED TO THIS. THEY WENT A LITTLE FURTHER AND DISMOUNTED AT A PLEASANT COOL BANK SHADED BY A LARGE BANIAN TREE AND CLOSE TO THE GANGES. WHEN THEY HAD BEEN FOR SOME TIME SEATED THERE DHANAMITTRA RETURNED ACCOMPANIED BY UPAHARAVARMA PRAMATI MITRAGUPTA MANTRAGUPTA VISRUTA PRAHARAVARMA KING OF MITHILA KAMAPALA LORD OF BENARES AND SINHAVARMA KING OF ANGA

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+IF IT WERE SO VIRTUE COULD BE TAUGHT AND BY HERE EXPRESSING IN ABSTRACT LANGUAGE ITS NATURE AND THE KNOWLEDGE WHICH LIES AT ITS FOUNDATION WE SHOULD MAKE EVERY ONE WHO COMPREHENDS THIS EVEN ETHICALLY BETTER. BUT THIS IS BY NO MEANS THE CASE. ON THE CONTRARY ETHICAL DISCOURSES AND PREACHING WILL JUST AS LITTLE PRODUCE A VIRTUOUS MAN AS ALL THE SYSTEMS OF AESTHETICS FROM ARISTOTLE DOWNWARDS HAVE SUCCEEDED IN PRODUCING A POET. FALSE DOGMAS DO NOT DISTURB IT TRUE ONES WILL SCARCELY ASSIST IT. IT WOULD IN FACT BE A BAD LOOK OUT IF THE CARDINAL FACT IN THE LIFE OF MAN HIS ETHICAL WORTH THAT WORTH WHICH COUNTS FOR ETERNITY WERE DEPENDENT UPON ANYTHING THE ATTAINMENT OF WHICH IS SO MUCH A MATTER OF CHANCE AS IS THE CASE WITH DOGMAS RELIGIOUS DOCTRINES AND PHILOSOPHICAL THEORIES. ALL COMMUNICABLE KNOWLEDGE HOWEVER CAN ONLY AFFECT THE WILL AS A MOTIVE. THUS WHEN DOGMAS LEAD IT WHAT THE MAN REALLY AND IN GENERAL WILLS REMAINS STILL THE SAME. HE HAS ONLY RECEIVED DIFFERENT THOUGHTS AS TO THE WAYS IN WHICH IT IS TO BE ATTAINED AND IMAGINARY MOTIVES GUIDE HIM JUST LIKE REAL ONES. FOR THESE ARE CAREFUL ONLY FOR THEMSELVES FOR THEIR OWN EGOISM JUST LIKE THE BANDIT FROM WHOM THEY ARE ONLY DISTINGUISHED BY THE ABSURDITY OF THEIR MEANS. IN THE CASE OF GOOD DEEDS HOWEVER THE DOER OF WHICH APPEALS TO DOGMAS WE MUST ALWAYS DISTINGUISH WHETHER THESE DOGMAS REALLY ARE THE MOTIVES WHICH LEAD TO THE GOOD DEEDS OR WHETHER AS WAS SAID ABOVE THEY ARE MERELY THE ILLUSIVE ACCOUNT OF THEM WITH WHICH HE SEEKS TO SATISFY HIS OWN REASON WITH REGARD TO A GOOD DEED WHICH REALLY FLOWS FROM QUITE A DIFFERENT SOURCE A DEED WHICH HE DOES BECAUSE HE IS GOOD THOUGH HE DOES NOT UNDERSTAND HOW TO EXPLAIN IT RIGHTLY AND YET WISHES TO THINK SOMETHING WITH REGARD TO IT. BUT THIS DISTINCTION IS VERY HARD TO MAKE BECAUSE IT LIES IN THE HEART OF A MAN. THEREFORE WE CAN SCARCELY EVER PASS A CORRECT MORAL JUDGMENT ON THE ACTION OF OTHERS AND VERY SELDOM ON OUR OWN. THE DEEDS AND CONDUCT OF AN INDIVIDUAL AND OF A NATION MAY BE VERY MUCH MODIFIED THROUGH DOGMAS EXAMPLE AND CUSTOM. BUT IN THEMSELVES ALL DEEDS OPERA OPERATA ARE MERELY EMPTY FORMS AND ONLY THE DISPOSITION WHICH LEADS TO THEM GIVES THEM MORAL SIGNIFICANCE. THIS DISPOSITION HOWEVER MAY BE QUITE THE SAME WHEN ITS OUTWARD MANIFESTATION IS VERY DIFFERENT. WITH AN EQUAL DEGREE OF WICKEDNESS ONE MAN MAY DIE ON THE WHEEL AND ANOTHER IN THE BOSOM OF HIS FAMILY. IT IS CONCEIVABLE THAT A PERFECT STATE OR PERHAPS INDEED A COMPLETE AND FIRMLY BELIEVED DOCTRINE OF REWARDS AND PUNISHMENTS AFTER DEATH MIGHT PREVENT EVERY CRIME POLITICALLY MUCH WOULD BE GAINED THEREBY MORALLY NOTHING ONLY THE EXPRESSION OF THE WILL IN LIFE WOULD BE RESTRICTED. THUS GENUINE GOODNESS OF DISPOSITION DISINTERESTED VIRTUE AND PURE NOBILITY DO NOT PROCEED FROM ABSTRACT KNOWLEDGE. WE WHO HERE SEEK THE THEORY OF VIRTUE AND HAVE THEREFORE ALSO TO EXPRESS ABSTRACTLY THE NATURE OF THE KNOWLEDGE WHICH LIES AT ITS FOUNDATION WILL YET BE UNABLE TO CONVEY THAT KNOWLEDGE ITSELF IN THIS EXPRESSION. WE CAN ONLY GIVE THE CONCEPT OF THIS KNOWLEDGE AND THUS ALWAYS START FROM ACTION IN WHICH ALONE IT BECOMES VISIBLE AND REFER TO ACTION AS ITS ONLY ADEQUATE EXPRESSION. BEFORE WE SPEAK OF THE GOOD PROPER IN OPPOSITION TO THE BAD WHICH HAS BEEN EXPLAINED WE MUST TOUCH ON AN INTERMEDIATE GRADE THE MERE NEGATION OF THE BAD THIS IS JUSTICE. TO THIS EXTENT THEREFORE HE SEES THROUGH THE PRINCIPIUM INDIVIDUATIONIS THE VEIL OF MAYA SO FAR HE SETS THE BEING EXTERNAL TO HIM ON A LEVEL WITH HIS OWN HE DOES IT NO INJURY. ONE WILL THEREFORE WISH TO RENDER TO OTHERS AS MUCH AS ONE RECEIVES FROM THEM

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+THEN CHRISTIAN TOOK LEAVE OF HIS FRIEND WHO BADE HIM GOD SPEED. HE NOW WENT ON TILL HE CAME TO THE HOUSE AT THE DOOR OF WHICH HE WAS TO KNOCK THIS HE DID TWO OR THREE TIMES. AT LAST ONE CAME TO THE DOOR AND SAID WHO IS THERE. CHRISTIAN I HAVE COME TO SEE THE GOOD MAN OF THE HOUSE. CHRISTIAN SIR I AM COME FROM THE CITY OF DESTRUCTION AND AM ON MY WAY TO MOUNT ZION. I WAS TOLD BY THE MAN THAT STANDS AT THE GATE THAT IF I CAME HERE YOU WOULD SHOW ME GOOD THINGS THAT WOULD HELP ME. THEN INTERPRETER TOOK CHRISTIAN TO A ROOM AND BADE HIS MAN BRING A LIGHT AND THERE HE SAW ON THE WALL THE PRINT OF ONE WHO HAD A GRAVE FACE WHOSE EYES WERE CAST UP TO THE SKY AND THE BEST OF BOOKS WAS IN HIS HAND THE LAW OF TRUTH WAS ON HIS LIPS AND THE WORLD WAS AT HIS BACK. HE STOOD AS IF HE WOULD PLEAD FOR MEN AND A CROWN OF GOLD HUNG NEAR HIS HEAD. CHRISTIAN WHAT DOES THIS MEAN. INTERPRETER I HAVE SHOWN YOU THIS PRINT FIRST FOR THIS IS HE WHO IS TO BE YOUR SOLE GUIDE WHEN YOU CAN NOT FIND YOUR WAY TO THE LAND TO WHICH YOU GO SO TAKE GOOD HEED TO WHAT I HAVE SHOWN YOU LEST YOU MEET WITH SOME WHO WOULD FEIGN TO LEAD YOU RIGHT BUT THEIR WAY GOES DOWN TO DEATH. THEN HE TOOK HIM TO A LARGE ROOM THAT WAS FULL OF DUST FOR IT HAD NOT BEEN SWEPT AND INTERPRETER TOLD HIS MAN TO SWEEP IT. NOW WHEN HE DID SO SUCH CLOUDS OF DUST FLEW UP THAT IT MADE CHRISTIAN CHOKE. CHRISTIAN WHAT MEANS THIS. THE DUST IS HIS FIRST SIN AND THE VICE THAT IS IN HIM. NOW AS SOON AS YOU SAW THE FIRST OF THESE SWEEP THE DUST DID SO FLY THAT THE ROOM COULD NOT BE MADE CLEAN BY HIM THIS IS TO SHOW YOU THAT THE LAW AS IT WORKS DOES NOT CLEANSE THE HEART FROM SIN BUT GIVES STRENGTH TO SIN SO AS TO ROUSE IT UP IN THE SOUL. THEN YOU NEXT SAW THE MAID COME IN TO LAY THE DUST SO IS SIN MADE CLEAN AND LAID LOW BY FAITH IN THE BOOK. NOW SAID CHRISTIAN LET ME GO HENCE. WELL SAID INTERPRETER KEEP ALL THINGS SO IN THY MIND THAT THEY MAY BE A GOAD IN THY SIDES AND MAY FAITH GUIDE THEE. THEN I SAW IN MY DREAM THAT THE HIGH WAY WHICH CHRISTIAN WAS TO TREAD HAD A WALL ON EACH SIDE AND THE NAME OF THAT WALL WAS SALVATION. JUST AS CHRISTIAN CAME UP TO THE CROSS HIS LOAD SLID FROM HIS BACK CLOSE TO THE MOUTH OF THE TOMB WHERE IT FELL IN AND I SAW IT NO MORE. THEN WAS CHRISTIAN GLAD AND SAID WITH A GAY HEART HE GIVES ME REST BY HIS GRIEF AND LIFE BY HIS DEATH. YET HE STOOD STILL FOR A WHILE FOR HE WAS STRUCK WITH AWE TO THINK THAT THE SIGHT OF THE CROSS SHOULD THUS EASE HIM OF HIS LOAD. THREE OR FOUR TIMES DID HE LOOK ON THE CROSS AND THE TOMB AND THE TEARS ROSE TO HIS EYES. AS HE STOOD THUS AND WEPT LO THREE BRIGHT ONES CAME TO HIM AND ONE OF THEM SAID PEACE BE TO THEE THOU HAST GRACE FROM THY SINS. CHRISTIAN GAVE THREE LEAPS FOR JOY AND SANG AS HE WENT AH WHAT A PLACE IS THIS BLEST CROSS BLEST TOMB. NAY BLEST IS THE LORD THAT WAS PUT TO SHAME FOR ME. HE WENT ON THUS TILL HE CAME TO A VALE WHERE HE SAW THREE MEN WHO WERE IN A SOUND SLEEP WITH CHAINS ON THEIR FEET. THE NAME OF ONE WAS SIMPLE ONE SLOTH AND THE THIRD PRESUMPTION. WAKE RISE AND COME WITH ME. TRUST ME AND I WILL HELP YOU OFF WITH YOUR CHAINS. WITH THAT THEY CAST THEIR EYES UP TO LOOK AT HIM AND SIMPLE SAID I WOULD FAIN TAKE MORE SLEEP. PRESUMPTION SAID LET EACH MAN LOOK TO HIS OWN. AND SO THEY LAY DOWN TO SLEEP ONCE MORE. THEN I SAW IN MY DREAM THAT TWO MEN LEAPT FROM THE TOP OF THE WALL AND MADE GREAT HASTE TO COME UP TO HIM. THEIR NAMES WERE FORMALIST AND HYPOCRISY. CHRISTIAN SIRS WHENCE COME YOU AND WHERE DO YOU GO

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+FORMALIST AND HYPOCRISY WE WERE BORN IN THE LAND OF VAIN GLORY AND ARE ON OUR WAY TO MOUNT ZION FOR PRAISE. CHRISTIAN WHY CAME YOU NOT IN AT THE GATE. KNOW YOU NOT THAT HE THAT COMES NOT IN AT THE DOOR BUT CLIMBS UP TO GET IN THE SAME IS A THIEF. CHRISTIAN BUT WHAT WILL THE LORD OF THE TOWN TO WHICH WE ARE BOUND THINK OF IT IF WE GO NOT IN THE WAY OF HIS WILL. THEY TOLD CHRISTIAN THAT HE HAD NO NEED FOR CARE ON THAT SCORE FOR LONG USE HAD MADE IT LAW AND THEY COULD PROVE THAT IT HAD BEEN SO FOR YEARS. YES SAID THEY NO DOUBT OF IT. AND IF WE GET IN THE ROAD AT ALL PRAY WHAT ARE THE ODDS. IS NOT OUR CASE AS GOOD AS YOURS. CHRISTIAN I WALK BY THE RULE OF MY LORD BUT YOU WALK BY THE RULE OF YOUR OWN LUSTS. THE LORD OF THE WAY WILL COUNT YOU AS THIEVES AND YOU WILL NOT BE FOUND TRUE MEN IN THE END. I SAW THEN THAT THEY ALL WENT ON TILL THEY CAME TO THE FOOT OF THE HILL OF DIFFICULTY WHERE THERE WAS A SPRING. NOW WHEN CHRISTIAN GOT AS FAR AS THE SPRING OF LIFE HE DRANK OF IT AND THEN WENT UP THE HILL. I THEN SAW CHRISTIAN GO UP THE HILL WHERE AT FIRST I COULD SEE HIM RUN THEN WALK AND THEN GO ON HIS HANDS AND KNEES SO STEEP WAS IT. NOW HALF WAY UP WAS A CAVE MADE BY THE LORD OF THAT HILL THAT THOSE WHO CAME BY MIGHT REST THERE. AT THIS CHRISTIAN GAVE A START AND SPED ON HIS WAY AND WENT AT A QUICK PACE. TIMOROUS SAID THAT ZION WAS THE HILL THEY MEANT TO CLIMB BUT THAT WHEN THEY HAD GOT HALF WAY THEY FOUND THAT THEY MET WITH MORE AND MORE RISK SO THAT GREAT FEAR CAME ON THEM AND ALL THEY COULD DO WAS TO TURN BACK. YES SAID MISTRUST FOR JUST IN FRONT OF US THERE LAY TWO BEASTS OF PREY IN OUR PATH WE KNEW NOT IF THEY SLEPT OR NOT BUT WE THOUGHT THAT THEY WOULD FALL ON US AND TEAR OUR LIMBS. CHRISTIAN YOU ROUSE MY FEARS. WHERE MUST I FLY TO BE SAFE. YET HE THOUGHT ONCE MORE OF WHAT HE HAD HEARD FROM THE MEN AND THEN HE FELT IN HIS CLOAK FOR HIS SCROLL THAT HE MIGHT READ IT AND FIND SOME PEACE. HE FELT FOR IT BUT FOUND IT NOT. AT LAST THOUGHT HE I SLEPT IN THE CAVE BY THE SIDE OF THE HILL. SO HE FELL DOWN ON HIS KNEES TO PRAY THAT GOD WOULD GIVE HIM GRACE FOR THIS ACT AND THEN WENT BACK TO LOOK FOR HIS SCROLL. BUT AS HE WENT WHAT TONGUE CAN TELL THE GRIEF OF CHRISTIAN'S HEART. OH FOOL THAT I AM SAID HE TO SLEEP IN THE DAY TIME SO TO GIVE WAY TO THE FLESH AS TO USE FOR EASE THAT REST WHICH THE LORD OF THE HILL HAD MADE BUT FOR THE HELP OF THE SOUL. THUS THEN WITH TEARS AND SIGHS HE WENT BACK AND WITH MUCH CARE DID HE LOOK ON THIS SIDE AND ON THAT FOR HIS SCROLL. AT LENGTH HE CAME NEAR TO THE CAVE WHERE HE HAD SAT AND SLEPT. HOW FAR THOUGHT CHRISTIAN HAVE I GONE IN VAIN. SUCH WAS THE LOT OF THE JEWS FOR THEIR SIN THEY WERE SENT BACK BY THE WAY OF THE RED SEA AND I AM MADE TO TREAD THOSE STEPS WITH GRIEF WHICH I MIGHT HAVE TROD WITH JOY HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR THIS SLEEP. HOW FAR MIGHT I HAVE BEEN ON MY WAY BY THIS TIME. I AM MADE TO TREAD THOSE STEPS THRICE WHICH I NEED NOT TO HAVE TROD BUT ONCE YEA NOW TOO I AM LIKE TO BE LOST IN THE NIGHT FOR THE DAY IS WELL NIGH SPENT. O THAT I HAD NOT SLEPT. NOW BY THIS TIME HE HAD COME TO THE VALE ONCE MORE WHERE FOR A SPELL HE SAT DOWN AND WEPT BUT AT LAST AS HE CAST A SAD GLANCE AT THE FOOT OF THE BENCH HE SAW HIS SCROLL WHICH HE CAUGHT UP WITH HASTE AND PUT IN HIS CLOAK. WORDS ARE TOO WEAK TO TELL THE JOY OF CHRISTIAN WHEN HE HAD GOT BACK HIS SCROLL. HE LAID IT UP IN THE BREAST OF HIS COAT AND GAVE THANKS TO GOD. WITH WHAT A LIGHT STEP DID HE NOW CLIMB THE HILL

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+BUT ERE HE GOT TO THE TOP THE SUN WENT DOWN ON CHRISTIAN AND HE SOON SAW THAT TWO WILD BEAST STOOD IN HIS WAY. AH THOUGHT HE THESE BEASTS RANGE IN THE NIGHT FOR THEIR PREY AND IF THEY SHOULD MEET WITH ME IN THE DARK HOW SHOULD I FLY FROM THEM. I SEE NOW THE CAUSE OF ALL THOSE FEARS THAT DROVE MISTRUST AND TIMOROUS BACK. THE NAME OF THE MAN WHO KEPT THE LODGE OF THAT HOUSE WAS WATCHFUL AND WHEN HE SAW THAT CHRISTIAN MADE A HALT AS IF HE WOULD GO BACK HE CAME OUT TO HIM AND SAID IS THY STRENGTH SO SMALL. FEAR NOT THE TWO WILD BEASTS FOR THEY ARE BOUND BY CHAINS AND ARE PUT HERE TO TRY THE FAITH OF THOSE THAT HAVE IT AND TO FIND OUT THOSE THAT HAVE NONE. KEEP IN THE MIDST OF THE PATH AND NO HARM SHALL COME TO THEE. THEN I SAW IN MY DREAM THAT STILL HE WENT ON IN GREAT DREAD OF THE WILD BEASTS HE HEARD THEM ROAR YET THEY DID HIM NO HARM BUT WHEN HE HAD GONE BY THEM HE WENT ON WITH JOY TILL HE CAME AND STOOD IN FRONT OF THE LODGE WHERE WATCHFUL DWELT. CHRISTIAN SIR WHAT HOUSE IS THIS MAY I REST HERE TO NIGHT. WATCHFUL WHAT IS YOUR NAME. CHRISTIAN MY NAME IS NOW CHRISTIAN BUT AT FIRST IT WAS GRACELESS. WATCHFUL HOW IS IT YOU CAME SO LATE THE SUN IS SET. CHRISTIAN THEN TOLD HIM WHY IT WAS. SO HE RANG A BELL AT THE SOUND OF WHICH THERE CAME OUT AT THE DOOR A GRAVE AND FAIR MAID WHOSE NAME WAS DISCRETION. WHEN WATCHFUL TOLD HER WHY CHRISTIAN HAD COME THERE SHE SAID WHAT IS YOUR NAME. THEN CHRISTIAN BENT DOWN HIS HEAD AND WENT WITH THEM TO THE HOUSE. PIETY COME GOOD CHRISTIAN SINCE OUR LOVE PROMPTS US TO TAKE YOU IN TO REST LET US TALK WITH YOU OF ALL THAT YOU HAVE SEEN ON YOUR WAY. CHRISTIAN WITH A RIGHT GOOD WILL AND I AM GLAD THAT YOU SHOULD ASK IT OF ME. PRUDENCE AND FIRST SAY WHAT IS IT THAT MAKES YOU WISH SO MUCH TO GO TO MOUNT ZION. THERE THEY SAY IS NO DEATH AND THERE I SHALL DWELL WITH SUCH AS LOVE THE LORD. CHARITY HAVE YOU A WIFE AND BABES CHRISTIAN YES I HAVE. CHARITY AND WHY DID YOU NOT BRING THEM WITH YOU. CHRISTIAN THEN WEPT AND SAID OH HOW GLAD SHOULD I HAVE BEEN TO DO SO. BUT THEY WOULD NOT COME WITH ME NOR HAVE ME LEAVE THEM. CHARITY AND DID YOU PRAY TO GOD TO PUT IT IN THEIR HEARTS TO GO WITH YOU. CHRISTIAN YES AND THAT WITH MUCH WARMTH FOR YOU MAY THINK HOW DEAR THEY WERE TO ME. THUS DID CHRISTIAN TALK WITH THESE FRIENDS TILL IT GREW DARK AND THEN HE TOOK HIS REST IN A LARGE ROOM THE NAME OF WHICH WAS PEACE THERE HE SLEPT TILL BREAK OF DAY AND THEN HE SANG A HYMN. THEY TOLD HIM THAT HE SHOULD NOT LEAVE TILL THEY HAD SHOWN HIM ALL THE RARE THINGS THAT WERE IN THAT PLACE. AND THEY BROUGHT OUT THE JAW BONE OF AN ASS WITH WHICH SAMSON DID SUCH GREAT FEATS AND THE SLING AND STONE WITH WHICH DAVID SLEW GOLIATH OF GATH. THEN I SAW IN MY DREAM THAT CHRISTIAN ROSE TO TAKE HIS LEAVE OF DISCRETION AND OF PRUDENCE PIETY AND CHARITY BUT THEY SAID THAT HE MUST STAY TILL THE NEXT DAY THAT THEY MIGHT SHOW HIM THE DELECTABLE MOUNTAINS SO THEY TOOK HIM TO THE TOP OF THE HOUSE AND BADE HIM LOOK TO THE SOUTH WHICH HE DID AND LO A GREAT WAY OFF HE SAW A RICH LAND FULL OF HILLS WOODS VINES SHRUBS AND STREAMS. WHAT IS THE NAME OF THIS LAND SAID CHRISTIAN. THEN THEY TOLD HIM IT WAS IMMANUEL'S LAND. THEN THEY GAVE HIM A SWORD AND PUT ON HIM A COAT OF MAIL WHICH WAS PROOF FROM HEAD TO FOOT LEST HE SHOULD MEET SOME FOE IN THE WAY AND THEY WENT WITH HIM DOWN THE HILL. OF A TRUTH SAID CHRISTIAN IT IS AS GREAT A TOIL TO COME DOWN THE HILL AS IT WAS TO GO UP. SO THOUGH HE WENT WITH GREAT CARE YET HE CAUGHT A SLIP OR TWO

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+MORE THAN THIS HE HATH BEEN HEARD TO RAIL ON YOU MY LORD WHO ARE NOW HIS JUDGE. JUDGE THY JUST DOOM WOULD BE TO DIE ON THE SPOT STILL LET US HEAR WHAT THOU HAST TO SAY. THEN THE JUDGE TO SUM UP THE CASE SPOKE THUS YOU SEE THIS MAN WHO HAS MADE SUCH A STIR IN OUR TOWN. YOU HAVE HEARD WHAT THESE GOOD MEN HAVE SAID OF HIM WHICH HE OWNS TO BE TRUE. IT RESTS NOW TO YOU TO SAVE HIS LIFE OR HANG HIM. THUS WHILE ONE LOST HIS LIFE FOR THE TRUTH A NEW MAN ROSE FROM HIS DEATH TO TREAD THE SAME WAY WITH CHRISTIAN. ON EACH SIDE OF IT WERE GREEN TREES THAT BORE FRUIT AND IN A FIELD THROUGH WHICH IT RAN THEY LAY DOWN TO SLEEP. COME GOOD HOPEFUL SAID CHRISTIAN LET US WALK ON THE GRASS. HOPEFUL BUT WHAT IF THIS PATH SHOULD LEAD US WRONG. CHRISTIAN HOW CAN IT LOOK DOTH IT NOT GO BY THE WAY SIDE. SO THEY SET OFF THROUGH THE FIELD. WHERE ARE WE NOW SAID HOPEFUL. THEN WAS CHRISTIAN MUTE AS HE THOUGHT HE HAD LED HIS FRIEND OUT OF THE WAY. AND NOW LIGHT WAS SEEN TO FLASH FROM THE SKY AND RAIN CAME DOWN IN STREAMS. CHRISTIAN WHO COULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT THIS PATH SHOULD LEAD US WRONG. HOPEFUL I HAD MY FEARS FROM THE FIRST AND SO GAVE YOU A HINT CHRISTIAN GOOD FRIEND I GRIEVE THAT I HAVE BROUGHT YOU OUT OF THE RIGHT PATH. HOPEFUL SAY NO MORE NO DOUBT IT IS FOR OUR GOOD. CHRISTIAN WE MUST NOT STAND THUS LET US TRY TO GO BACK. THEN THEY HEARD A VOICE SAY SET THINE HEART TO THE HIGH WAY THE WAY THOU HAST BEEN TURN ONCE MORE. NOR COULD THEY WITH ALL THEIR SKILL GET BACK THAT NIGHT. SO THEY FOUND A SCREEN FROM THE RAIN AND THERE THEY SLEPT TILL BREAK OF DAY. WHENCE ARE YOU SAID HE AND WHAT BROUGHT YOU HERE. THEN SAID GIANT DESPAIR YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO FORCE YOUR WAY IN HERE THE GROUND ON WHICH YOU LIE IS MINE. THEY HAD NOT MUCH TO SAY AS THEY KNEW THAT THEY WERE IN FAULT. HERE THEY WERE KEPT FOR THREE DAYS AND THEY HAD NO LIGHT NOR FOOD NOR A DROP TO DRINK ALL THAT TIME AND NO ONE TO ASK THEM HOW THEY DID. NOW GIANT DESPAIR HAD A WIFE WHOSE NAME WAS DIFFIDENCE AND HE TOLD HER WHAT HE HAD DONE. AND BY THIS ACT WE KILL OUR SOULS AS WELL. MY FRIEND CHRISTIAN YOU TALK OF EASE IN THE GRAVE BUT CAN A MAN GO TO BLISS WHO TAKES HIS OWN LIFE

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+OF THE MASTERSHIP BELONGING TO MAN IN THE STATE OF INNOCENCE IN FOUR ARTICLES. WE NEXT CONSIDER THE MASTERSHIP WHICH BELONGED TO MAN IN THE STATE OF INNOCENCE. UNDER THIS HEAD THERE ARE FOUR POINTS OF INQUIRY. ONE WHETHER MAN IN THE STATE OF INNOCENCE WAS MASTER OVER THE ANIMALS. TWO WHETHER HE WAS MASTER OVER ALL CREATURES. FOUR WHETHER IN THAT STATE MAN WOULD HAVE BEEN MASTER OVER MEN. BUT THE ANGELS NEED NOT HAVE INTERVENED THUS IF MAN HIMSELF WERE MASTER OVER THE ANIMALS. THEREFORE IN THE STATE OF INNOCENCE MAN HAD NO MASTERSHIP OF THE ANIMALS. THEREFORE ALL ANIMALS WERE NOT BROUGHT UNDER THE MASTERSHIP OF MAN. THEREFORE AT LEAST BEFORE SIN IT WAS UNFITTING FOR MAN TO MAKE USE OF HIS MASTERSHIP. THEREFORE IN THE STATE OF INNOCENCE BEFORE MAN HAD DISOBEYED NOTHING DISOBEYED HIM THAT WAS NATURALLY SUBJECT TO HIM. SECONDLY THIS IS PROVED BY THE ORDER OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE WHICH ALWAYS GOVERNS INFERIOR THINGS BY THE SUPERIOR. THIRDLY THIS IS PROVED FROM A PROPERTY OF MAN AND OF OTHER ANIMALS. NOW WHATEVER IS PARTICIPATED IS SUBJECT TO WHAT IS ESSENTIAL AND UNIVERSAL. THEREFORE THE SUBJECTION OF OTHER ANIMALS TO MAN IS PROVED TO BE NATURAL. NOW AN ANGEL IS NATURALLY HIGHER THAN MAN. THEY WOULD NOT HOWEVER ON THIS ACCOUNT HAVE BEEN EXCEPTED FROM THE MASTERSHIP OF MAN AS NEITHER AT PRESENT ARE THEY FOR THAT REASON EXCEPTED FROM THE MASTERSHIP OF GOD WHOSE PROVIDENCE HAS ORDAINED ALL THIS. BUT MAN NEEDED ANIMALS IN ORDER TO HAVE EXPERIMENTAL KNOWLEDGE OF THEIR NATURES. THIS IS SIGNIFIED BY THE FACT THAT GOD LED THE ANIMALS TO MAN THAT HE MIGHT GIVE THEM NAMES EXPRESSIVE OF THEIR RESPECTIVE NATURES. SO ALL ANIMALS WOULD HAVE OBEYED MAN OF THEIR OWN ACCORD AS IN THE PRESENT STATE SOME DOMESTIC ANIMALS OBEY HIM. OBJECTION ONE IT WOULD SEEM THAT IN THE STATE OF INNOCENCE MAN WOULD NOT HAVE HAD MASTERSHIP OVER ALL OTHER CREATURES. MUCH LESS THEREFORE WOULD IT HAVE OBEYED MAN IN THE STATE OF INNOCENCE. NOW THESE DO NOT NATURALLY OBEY REASON AS WE CAN SEE IN THE CASE OF ANY ONE MAN. THEREFORE SINCE IT IS BY HIS REASON THAT MAN IS COMPETENT TO HAVE MASTERSHIP IT SEEMS THAT IN THE STATE OF INNOCENCE MAN HAD NO DOMINION OVER PLANTS. NOW IN MAN REASON HAS THE POSITION OF A MASTER AND NOT OF A SUBJECT. SO IN THE STATE OF INNOCENCE MAN HAD MASTERSHIP OVER THE ANIMALS BY COMMANDING THEM. OBJECTION ONE IT WOULD SEEM THAT IN THE STATE OF INNOCENCE ALL WOULD HAVE BEEN EQUAL. BUT IN THE STATE OF INNOCENCE THERE WAS NO SIN THEREFORE ALL WERE EQUAL. NOW IN THAT STATE THERE WAS AMONG MEN AN ABUNDANCE OF LOVE WHICH IS THE BOND OF PEACE. THEREFORE ALL WERE EQUAL IN THE STATE OF INNOCENCE. I ANSWER THAT WE MUST NEEDS ADMIT THAT IN THE PRIMITIVE STATE THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN SOME INEQUALITY AT LEAST AS REGARDS SEX BECAUSE GENERATION DEPENDS UPON DIVERSITY OF SEX AND LIKEWISE AS REGARDS AGE FOR SOME WOULD HAVE BEEN BORN OF OTHERS NOR WOULD SEXUAL UNION HAVE BEEN STERILE. MOREOVER AS REGARDS THE SOUL THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN INEQUALITY AS TO RIGHTEOUSNESS AND KNOWLEDGE. FOR MAN WORKED NOT OF NECESSITY BUT OF HIS OWN FREE WILL BY VIRTUE OF WHICH MAN CAN APPLY HIMSELF MORE OR LESS TO ACTION DESIRE OR KNOWLEDGE HENCE SOME WOULD HAVE MADE A GREATER ADVANCE IN VIRTUE AND KNOWLEDGE THAN OTHERS. THERE MIGHT ALSO HAVE BEEN BODILY DISPARITY. INEQUALITY MIGHT ALSO ARISE ON THE PART OF NATURE AS ABOVE DESCRIBED WITHOUT ANY DEFECT OF NATURE. OBJECTION ONE IT WOULD SEEM THAT IN THE STATE OF INNOCENCE MAN WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN MASTER OVER MAN. THEREFORE IN THE STATE OF INNOCENCE MAN WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN SUBJECT TO MAN. BUT AMONG THE ANGELS SOME RULE OVER OTHERS AND SO ONE ORDER IS CALLED THAT OF DOMINATIONS. IN ANOTHER SENSE MASTERSHIP IS REFERRED IN A GENERAL SENSE TO ANY KIND OF SUBJECT AND IN THIS SENSE EVEN HE WHO HAS THE OFFICE OF GOVERNING AND DIRECTING FREE MEN CAN BE CALLED A MASTER. BUT A MAN IS THE MASTER OF A FREE SUBJECT BY DIRECTING HIM EITHER TOWARDS HIS PROPER WELFARE OR TO THE COMMON GOOD. SUCH A KIND OF MASTERSHIP WOULD HAVE EXISTED IN THE STATE OF INNOCENCE BETWEEN MAN AND MAN FOR TWO REASONS

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+FIRST BECAUSE MAN IS NATURALLY A SOCIAL BEING AND SO IN THE STATE OF INNOCENCE HE WOULD HAVE LED A SOCIAL LIFE. NOW A SOCIAL LIFE CANNOT EXIST AMONG A NUMBER OF PEOPLE UNLESS UNDER THE PRESIDENCY OF ONE TO LOOK AFTER THE COMMON GOOD FOR MANY AS SUCH SEEK MANY THINGS WHEREAS ONE ATTENDS ONLY TO ONE

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+BUT MAN IS NOBLER THAN OTHER ANIMALS. BUT IN THE STATE OF INNOCENCE THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO WEAKNESS OF OLD AGE. THEREFORE NEITHER WOULD THERE HAVE BEEN SUCH WEAKNESS IN INFANCY. ON THE CONTRARY EVERYTHING GENERATED IS FIRST IMPERFECT BUT IN THE STATE OF INNOCENCE CHILDREN WOULD HAVE BEEN BEGOTTEN BY GENERATION. THEREFORE FROM THE FIRST THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN IMPERFECT IN BODILY SIZE AND POWER. I ANSWER THAT BY FAITH ALONE DO WE HOLD TRUTHS WHICH ARE ABOVE NATURE AND WHAT WE BELIEVE RESTS ON AUTHORITY. WHEREFORE IN MAKING ANY ASSERTION WE MUST BE GUIDED BY THE NATURE OF THINGS EXCEPT IN THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE ABOVE NATURE AND ARE MADE KNOWN TO US BY DIVINE AUTHORITY. BUT IN GENERATION THE ACTIVE FORCE IS IN THE MALE. THEREFORE IN THE STATE OF INNOCENCE THERE WAS NO NEED FOR WOMEN TO BE BORN ON THE CONTRARY NATURE'S PROCESS IN GENERATION WOULD HAVE BEEN IN HARMONY WITH THE MANNER IN WHICH IT WAS ESTABLISHED BY GOD

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+THANKS TO THE HAPPY ACCIDENT OF MY POSITION THE ONE CERTAIN WAY OF PROTECTING HER LAY EASILY WITHIN MY REACH. I COULD OFFER TO LEND THE SCOUNDREL THE MONEY THAT HE WANTED AT AN HOUR'S NOTICE AND HE WAS THE MAN TO ACCEPT MY PROPOSAL QUITE AS EASILY AS I COULD MAKE IT. YOU ARE QUITE MISTAKEN I REPLIED. I AM ONLY DOUBTING WHETHER YOUR PLAN FOR RELIEVING MISTER VAN BRANDT OF HIS EMBARRASSMENTS IS QUITE SO SIMPLE AS YOU SUPPOSE. ARE YOU AWARE OF THE DELAYS THAT ARE LIKELY TO TAKE PLACE BEFORE IT WILL BE POSSIBLE TO BORROW MONEY ON YOUR POLICY OF INSURANCE. I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT IT SHE SAID SADLY. WILL YOU LET ME ASK THE ADVICE OF MY LAWYERS. THEY ARE TRUSTWORTHY AND EXPERIENCED MEN AND I AM SURE THEY CAN BE OF USE TO YOU. CAUTIOUSLY AS I HAD EXPRESSED MYSELF HER DELICACY TOOK THE ALARM. PROMISE THAT YOU WON'T ASK ME TO BORROW MONEY OF YOU FOR MISTER VAN BRANDT SHE REJOINED AND I WILL ACCEPT YOUR HELP GRATEFULLY. I COULD HONESTLY PROMISE THAT. MY ONE CHANCE OF SAVING HER LAY IN KEEPING FROM HER KNOWLEDGE THE COURSE THAT I HAD NOW DETERMINED TO PURSUE. I ROSE TO GO WHILE MY RESOLUTION STILL SUSTAINED ME. KISS ME SHE WHISPERED BEFORE YOU GO. IT IS ONLY YOUR GOODNESS THAT OVERPOWERS ME

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+MEANWHILE THE OXEN TETHERED CLOSE BY WERE EATING THEIR SUPPERS OF CHOPPED STRAW. AS SUPPER WAS BEING EATEN ANOTHER PARTY STOPPED AT THE PARAO AND CAMPED NOT FAR AWAY. WHEN THE LITTER WAS PUT DOWN A YOUNG BOY STEPPED OUT LOOKING VERY PROUD AND HAUGHTY. HIS SERVANTS AT ONCE SPREAD A HANDSOME RUG ON THE GROUND FOR HIM TO SIT ON AND RUSHED ABOUT WAITING ON HIM TAKING GOOD CARE TO KEEP EVERY ONE AT A DISTANCE. YES AND HOW HE ORDERS EVERY ONE ABOUT HIM. AROUND THE LITTLE BRAHMIN'S NECK WAS A THIN CORD OR THREAD WHICH WAS THE SIGN OF HIS HIGH CASTE. JUST THEN A LITTLE BOY FROM ONE OF THE WAGONS CREPT UP NEAR AND SALAAMED BEFORE HIM UNTIL HIS HEAD TOUCHED THE GROUND AWAY. THE OLD WOMAN FROWNED AT THE LITTLE BOY WHO CREPT MEEKLY BACK TO HIS CART. MEANWHILE THE HAUGHTY LITTLE BRAHMIN ATE HIS SUPPER WITH HIS HEAD TURNED AWAY SO NO ONE COULD SEE HIM EAT AND THEN GROWING TIRED OF RESPECTFUL GLANCES OF THE CROWD AROUND HIM HE GOT INTO HIS LITTER AGAIN AND THE SERVANTS FASTENED THE CURTAINS TIGHTLY AROUND HIM. EVERYBODY SLEPT SOUNDLY IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT ONE OF THE SERVANTS WAS BEATING A DRUM MOST OF THE NIGHT WHICH THEY REALLY BELIEVED WAS THE WAY TO KEEP OFF EVIL SPIRITS. OH THE THIEVES HE CRIED. THEY ARE AS BAD AS THE BEGGARS. THEY DID NOT SEE THE LITTLE BRAHMIN AGAIN. WHAT ART THOU GUARDING SO CAREFULLY SHRIYA ASKED HER BROTHER. HE AND CHOLA WERE WALKING BESIDE THE WAGON FOR A CHANGE. THE LATTICES WERE RAISED SO SHRIYA AND HER MOTHER AND AUNT COULD ENJOY THE FRESH AIR. THEY ARE MY DOLLS SAID THE LITTLE GIRL SADLY AS SHE PATTED THE BUNDLE BESIDE HER. I TAKE THEM AS AN OFFERING TO THE HOLY RIVER POOR LITTLE WOMAN. MUST THOU SACRIFICE THY TOYS TOO. SMILED HER UNCLE AS HE PATTED HER HEAD