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But the ten days of enforced seclusion and solitude that must intervene seeht of the real eternity, beyond, when the power to excite or stupefy his lower nature would be gone forever That shadoas so dark and cold that it seemed to chill his very soul, and by a resolute effort of will he compelled his mind to dwell only on the immediate future and the past

Day at last dawned slowly and di up and down like so so often by reason of the li on his couch with his haggard face buried in his hands

After fighting all night against the iave up the struggle, and perhts were only pain now, and yet for some reason it seemed as if his mind were drawn irresistibly toward the as the November wind that sweeps back and forth the withered and fallen leaves His whole frausts of re and drearily

He now realized what a priceless opportunity he had lost It was once his privilege to enter Mrs Arnot's beautiful home assured of welcome She had been deeply interested in hiht have becoed to meet Laura Roht have made himself worthy of her esteem, and possibly of her affection He saw that he had foolishly clamored, like a spoiled child, for that which he could only hope to possess by patient waiting and ret that was like a serpent's tooth, he felt that such devotion o, whose life had been iven a better vantage-ground? And yet he had already found the lowest earthly perdition possible, and had lost hope of anything better

In his inashed his teeth and cursed himself, his fate, and those who had led to his evil fortunes Then, by a natural revulsion of feeling, he sobbed like a child that has lost its way and can discover no returning path, and whose heart the darkness of the fast-approaching night fills with unutterable dread