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But when he got to the Marsh, he realized how fixed

everything was, how the other forretted for the first time that he had succeeded to the

far safe and easy and

unadventurous He ht, with risk, have donenor Herbert Spencer, nor have

access to such a room as Mrs Forbes's All that form of life

was outside him

But then, he said he did not want it The excitean to pass off The next day he was hiht of the other wo about her and

her place that he did not like, so alien,

as if she were not a wo who used up

hu came on, he played with Anna, and then sat alone

with his oife She was sewing He sat very still, sure, and quiet

dark head bent over her needle It was too quiet for him It was

too peaceful He wanted to sht in, so that his wife should not be so secure and quiet,

sitting there He wished the air were not so close and narrow

His as obliterated from him, she was in her oorld,

quiet, secure, unnoticed, unnoticing He was shut down by

her

He rose to go out He could not sit still any longer He et out of this oppressive, shut-dooman-haunt

His wife lifted her head and looked at hi out?" she asked