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heart if he went Yes; and he would certainly break his proht there

Her words came back to him: "It's all over and done with now" Was it?

Was it?

Reason said: It was better to risk a possibility than face a certainty

Reason? Ah, no! It was Nature rather, the inscrutable Sphinx, repeating

her stale old riddle, the answer to which is Man

A sound of laughter roused hi up one by one along the Embank back against the loall; she was

looking at hias-standard,

on the outer edge of an illuminated disc Her face, painted and powdered,

flushed faintly in the perishing light He thought her nificently

beautiful

He came forward and was about to speak to her The woht center of the disc; she turned her face sideways as she

moved, and he saw in it a sudden likeness to Molly The likeness was

fugitive, indefinable; so, the line of the

forehead, the sweep of the black hair froht or of his own brain But it was there; he

saw it, an infernal reincarnation of his wife's dead beauty