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It was not that he was in danger of legal punish disclosed to the judghbors

and the mournful perception of his wife certain facts of his past life

which would render hiion hich he had diligently associated hied sharpens the -unvisited past which has been habitually recalled only in

general phrases Even without memory, the life is bound into one by a

zone of dependence in growth and decay; but intense memory forces alike a reopened

wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn

preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose

fro

shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame

Into this second life Bulstrode's past had now risen, only the

pleasures of it seeht and day,

without interruption save of brief sleep which only wove retrospect and

fear into a fantastic present, he felt the scenes of his earlier life

co else, as obstinately as e look

through thefrohted room, the objects we turn our backs

on are still before us, instead of the grass and the trees The

successive events inward and outere there in one view: though

each ht be dwelt on in turn, the rest still kept their hold in the

consciousness