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"But you feel solitude an oppression? The little house there behind

you is dark and empty"

"I have hardly had tirow impatient under one of loneliness"

"Very well; I hope you feel the content you express: at any rate,

your good sense will tell you that it is too soon yet to yield to

the vacillating fears of Lot's wife What you had left before I saw

you, of course I do not know; but I counsel you to resist firmly

every temptation which would incline you to look back: pursue your

present career steadily, for some months at least"

"It is what I mean to do," I answered St John continued "It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the

bent of nature; but that it iven us, in a ies seeet--when

our will strains after a path we may not folloe need neither

starve from inanition, nor stand still in despair: we have but to

seek another nourished to taste--and perhaps purer; and to hew out for the

adventurous foot a road as direct and broad as the one Fortune has

blocked up against us, if rougher than it