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With the co professor a new force seenized in hireat outer world--the Eastern world, the world of the unafraid--and her determination to at least subordinate her "controls" had expanded swiftly to athe few hours of her companionship with him She felt that he would sympathize with her--that he would help her The clear positiveness of his speech, his health, his hurew upon her each moment, and she resolved to confide in hi revolt, this antagonism, Clarke divined, and the determination to arrest her purpose, the desire to possess her entirely and at once, excluded every other wish or plan, and to feel was to act with Anthony Clarke, for he was born to emotional experience as the sparks fly upward He had ever been a creature of unreason, led the blood of three races His father was Scotch, and his mother--Spanish on the spindle side and Irish by way of a most mercurial father--remained an unsolved probleical as her tears Her household could never tell what the next hour would bring forth, so ready were her sympathies, so instant her despairs She lived all her life at the heights or the depths, with never a day of serene, wo was of the sa to earth like one whose body was about to drop into soundless deeps

Her son had inherited all her fervency, her inconstancy of purpose, as well as her tendency to collapse under pressure Physically he had always been of slender figure, eak lungs, and these weaknesses he had used to free himself from work, from responsibility

He was not a hypocrite--in that Britt was ious His soul aspired, at tis He was sympathetic to actual pain, and had always been ht of any poor, lost, and suffering man threw him into instant, profound, and ht in a spider's web, a young robin water-soaked and bedraggled, appalled him, even as a boy, and he pondered the coht of their eyes fled? he asked hi any creature, and more than once he used all his slender force to defend a cat fro; and yet he was known to have joined the worst youths of his native town in secret drinking-bouts, thereby acquiring the reputation of a liar and sneak, as well as that of licentiate At seventeen, just when the appetite for liquor seereat "revivalist" won his soul, as the saying went, and at twenty-three he assumed his first pastorate