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iable ennui

A perfectly sane man would have faced the facts frankly He would have

pulled hiot

so to do And under any other circumstances, this is what Tyson

would have done Unfortunately, he considered it his duty as a repentant

husband to stay at ho his emotions

Ah, those emotions! If Tyson had been siht have been some chance for him But sentimentalism, subtlest

source of moral corruption, worked in him like that hectic disease that

fla its wretched victi, stirred into frightful

activity by the shock of his wife's illness He stayed indoors, lounging

in easy-chairs, and lying about on sofas; he ses, loo about his wife's

bedroo aimlessly, or sat in silence and deep depression by

her side In vain she iet

some fresh air Once or twice, to satisfy her, he went, and yawned

through aat some theatre, when, as often as not, he

left before the end of the first act Hereditary conscience rose up and

thrust him violently from the house; outside, the spirit of the Baptist

uileless cultivator of orchids, haled hied hi into

shop s in a drea that

would "suitfroht home, he must have credited the poor little soul with criant tastes The tables and shelves about her couch were heaped

with idiotic luhtful

eyes