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had rendered me a trifle different from my fellow men I could never

approach any question in life without wanting to go all about it and

to the bottom and top, like a cooper with his barrel I was thus

actuated, without doubt, in my relations years since with Helena

Emory--I knew the shrewdness and accuracy of my own trained ic of my mind, a

mind able and well trained, especially well trained in reason and

argureat brief of all ument why should she love me, I did so, at

first, in the conviction that itHad I not myself

worked it out in each detail, had not uarded each portal? Was it, indeed, not a perfect brief--that one I

held in my first lost case--the lost case which sent me out of my

profession, left me a stranded hulk of a sters had foundpoint of some new flame of life, so that I knew a vast

world existed beyond the nature of the intellect, the old ways clung

to me, after all Even as I swore to lay hold on youth and on

adventure (and on love, if, in sooth, that ht as yet wholly bare of the old weapons that had so long

fittede set forth fro, and I

recalled my earlier boast to myself that if I ever cared to be a