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Gordon argued that it should not He was driven to it

by years of fruitless struggling against this monstrous creation in the

shape ofbecause of him; his whole life

had been so turned and twisted this way and that way because of him,

that he himself had in the end becos He was conscious of it hiood, simple, broad-visioned man, full of charity, with

almost no subtlety He had been forced to lead a life which strained and

diverted all these good traits Where he would have been open, he had

been secret

Where he would have had no suspicion of any one, his first

sight now seehed and measured

where he naturally would have scattered broadcast He had been obliged

to compress his broad vision into a narro of detection He was

not the azed out of wide doors and

s at life, he now gazed through keyholes, and despised hi In order to evade the trouble which had fallen to his lot, he

took refuge in another personality Thomas Gordon was a man whom a

happy and untroubled life would have kept froold was tarnished, and he himself always saw the tarnish, as one

sees a blur before the eye Twenty years before, if any one had told him

that he would at any period of his life beco with hi of as now in his