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They could hear him as they passed

"We're all sinners," shouted the preacher (They stopped and looked at

each other with a faint smile All sinners--that hat Nevill used to

say, all sinners--or fools) "We're all sinners, you and me, but Jesus

can save us 'E loves sinners 'E bears their sins; your sins an' my

sins, dear brethren; 'e bears the sins of the 'ole world Why, that's

wot 'e came inter the world for--to save sinners Ter save 'e 'ell! That's wot Jesus does for sinners"

Oh, Molly, Molly, what has he done for fools?

He took her to Ridgmount Gardens, and left her at the door of the flat

She was incomprehensible, this little Mrs Tyson But up till now his

own state of ; he had

always known But where she was drifting, or whether she was drifting at

all, he did not know; that is to say, he was not sure And up till now he

had not tried very hard to make sure He was a person of infinite tact,

and could boast with so By this tiiven a sort of

metaphysical character to this interest of the senses; he was almost

content to wait and let the world come round to hi Mrs Nevill Tyson, would have

fathoing

husband He was of clay, no doubt, but it was not the same clay; and it

was impossible to say how much she knew or had divined; other wo was certain, he would never have

betrayed Tyson until Tyson had betrayed her As it was, his relations

with her were sufficiently abnor; it was not passion,

it was a rush oflike a dance of

fire-flies--an endless approach and flight