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And all this I was leaving I was going back now to the vast tu towns, to the lip of mockery, the eye of insincerity, the

hand of hypocrisy, where noneback without one look, face to face, into the eyes and the

heart of the woman I had loved, and who, by force of these

extraordinary circumstances had, for a miraculous moment, been thus

set doith s built of

Providence for secrecy and love! Yonder, speeding to her summons, no

doubt hastened, ready to meet her, the man whom she had preferred

above me And like a beast of burden, driven in the service of these

two, I was plodding on, in the work of leaving paradise and

opportunity, and delivering safe into the hands of another man the

woman whom I loved far more than all else in all the world