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In the ht about it, and for the

first time in his life, knehat it was to feel really acutely

irritable, in aat Tilly, he took hi at the ashen fields and the putty roads, he

wondered what in the naet out of this

prickly sense of disgust and physical repulsion And he knew

that this was the result of his glorious evening

And his stoedly across the fields with his terrier, and looked at

everything with a jaundiced eye

The next evening found hiain in his place at the

"Red Lion", moderate and decent There he sat and stubbornly

waited for ould happen next

Did he, or did he not believe that he belonged to this world

of Cossethay and Ilkeston? There was nothing in it he wanted

Yet could he ever get out of it? Was there anything in himself

that would carry hih to be like the other young felloho drank a

good deal and wenched a little without any question, and were

satisfied

He went on stubbornly for a tireat for him A hot, accumulated consciousness was always awake