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She
laughed
.
"
So
we
shall
be
friends
I
daresay
--
for
a
little
while
"
--
she
replied
--
"
But
the
dove
does
not
willingly
consort
with
the
raven
,
and
Mavis
Clare
's
way
of
life
and
studious
habits
would
be
to
me
insufferably
dull
Besides
,
as
I
said
before
,
she
,
as
a
clever
woman
and
a
thinker
,
is
too
clear-sighted
not
to
find
me
out
in
the
course
of
time
.
But
I
will
play
humbug
as
long
as
I
can
.
If
I
perform
the
part
of
'
county
lady
'
or
'
patron
,
'
of
course
she
wo
n't
stand
me
for
a
moment
.
I
shall
have
to
assume
a
much
more
difficult
rôle
--
that
of
an
honest
woman
!
"
Again
she
laughed
--
a
cruel
little
laugh
that
chilled
my
blood
,
and
paced
slowly
into
the
house
through
the
open
windows
of
the
drawing-room
.
And
I
,
left
alone
in
the
garden
among
the
nodding
roses
and
waving
trees
,
felt
that
the
beautiful
domain
of
Willowsmere
had
suddenly
grown
hideous
and
bereft
of
all
its
former
charm
,
and
was
nothing
but
a
haunted
house
of
desolation
--
haunted
by
an
all-dominant
and
ever
victorious
Spirit
of
Evil
.
One
of
the
strangest
things
in
all
the
strange
course
of
our
human
life
is
the
suddenness
of
certain
unlooked-for
events
,
which
,
in
a
day
or
even
an
hour
,
may
work
utter
devastation
where
there
has
been
more
or
less
peace
,
and
hopeless
ruin
where
there
has
been
comparative
safety
.
Like
the
shock
of
an
earthquake
,
the
clamorous
incidents
thunder
in
on
the
regular
routine
of
ordinary
life
,
crumbling
down
our
hopes
,
breaking
our
hearts
,
and
scattering
our
pleasures
into
the
dust
and
ashes
of
despair
.
And
this
kind
of
destructive
trouble
generally
happens
in
the
midst
of
apparent
prosperity
,
without
the
least
warning
,
and
with
all
the
abrupt
fierceness
of
a
desert-storm
.
It
is
constantly
made
manifest
to
us
in
the
unexpected
and
almost
instantaneous
downfall
of
certain
members
of
society
who
have
held
their
heads
proudly
above
their
compeers
and
have
presumed
to
pose
as
examples
of
light
and
leading
to
the
whole
community
;
we
see
it
in
the
capricious
fortunes
of
kings
and
statesmen
,
who
are
in
favour
one
day
and
disgraced
the
next
,
and
vast
changes
are
wrought
with
such
inexplicable
quickness
that
it
is
scarcely
wonderful
to
hear
of
certain
religious
sects
who
,
when
everything
is
prospering
more
than
usually
well
with
them
,
make
haste
to
put
on
garments
of
sackcloth
,
and
cast
ashes
on
their
heads
,
praying
aloud
"
Prepare
us
,
O
Lord
,
for
the
evil
days
which
are
at
hand
!
"
The
moderation
of
the
Stoics
,
who
considered
it
impious
either
to
rejoice
or
grieve
,
and
strove
to
maintain
an
equable
middle
course
between
the
opposing
elements
of
sorrow
and
joy
,
without
allowing
themselves
to
be
led
away
by
over-much
delight
or
over-much
melancholy
,
was
surely
a
wise
habit
of
temperament
.
I
,
who
lived
miserably
as
far
as
my
inner
and
better
consciousness
was
concerned
,
was
yet
outwardly
satisfied
with
the
material
things
of
life
and
the
luxuries
surrounding
me
--
and
I
began
to
take
comfort
in
these
things
,
and
with
them
endeavoured
to
quell
and
ignore
my
more
subtle
griefs
,
succeeding
so
far
in
that
I
became
more
and
more
of
a
thorough
materialist
every
day
,
loving
bodily
ease
,
appetizing
food
,
costly
wine
,
and
personal
indulgence
to
a
degree
that
robbed
me
gradually
of
even
the
desire
for
mental
effort
.
I
taught
myself
moreover
,
almost
insensibly
,
to
accept
and
tolerate
what
I
knew
of
the
wanton
side
of
my
wife
's
character
--
true
,
I
respected
her
less
than
the
Turk
respects
the
creature
of
his
harem
--
but
like
the
Turk
,
I
took
a
certain
savage
satisfaction
in
being
the
possessor
of
her
beauty
,
and
with
this
feeling
,
and
the
brute
passion
it
engendered
,
I
was
fain
to
be
content
.
So
that
for
a
short
time
at
least
,
the
drowsy
satisfaction
of
a
well-fed
,
well-mated
animal
was
mine
--
I
imagined
that
nothing
short
of
a
stupendous
financial
catastrophe
to
the
country
itself
could
exhaust
my
stock
of
cash
--
and
that
therefore
there
was
no
necessity
for
me
to
exert
myself
in
any
particular
branch
of
usefulness
,
but
simply
to
'
eat
drink
and
be
merry
'
as
Solomon
advised
.
Intellectual
activity
was
paralysed
in
me
--
to
take
up
my
pen
and
write
,
and
make
another
and
higher
bid
for
fame
,
was
an
idea
that
now
never
entered
my
mind
;
I
spent
my
days
in
ordering
about
my
servants
,
and
practising
the
petty
pleasures
of
tyranny
on
gardeners
and
grooms
,
and
in
generally
giving
myself
airs
of
importance
,
mingled
with
an
assumption
of
toleration
and
benevolence
,
for
the
benefit
of
all
those
in
my
employ
.
I
knew
the
proper
thing
to
do
,
well
enough
!
--
I
had
not
studied
the
ways
of
the
over-wealthy
for
nothing
--
I
was
aware
that
the
rich
man
never
feels
so
thoroughly
virtuous
as
when
he
has
inquired
after
the
health
of
his
coachman
's
wife
,
and
has
sent
her
a
couple
of
pounds
for
the
outfit
of
her
new-born
baby
.
The
much
prated-of
'
kindness
of
heart
'
and
'
generosity
'
possessed
by
millionaires
,
generally
amounts
to
this
kind
of
thing
--
and
when
,
if
idly
strolling
about
my
parklands
,
I
happened
to
meet
the
small
child
of
my
lodge-keeper
,
and
then
and
there
bestowed
sixpence
upon
it
,
I
almost
felt
as
if
I
deserved
a
throne
in
Heaven
at
the
right
hand
of
the
Almighty
,
so
great
was
my
appreciation
of
my
own
good-nature
.
Sibyl
,
however
,
never
affected
this
sort
of
county-magnate
beneficence
.
She
did
nothing
at
all
among
our
poor
neighbours
;
--
the
clergyman
of
the
district
unfortunately
happened
to
let
slip
one
day
a
few
words
to
the
effect
that
"
there
was
no
great
want
of
anything
among
his
parishioners
,
owing
to
the
continual
kindness
and
attention
of
Miss
Clare
,
"
--
and
Sibyl
never
from
that
moment
proffered
any
assistance
.
Now
and
then
she
took
her
graceful
person
into
Lily
Cottage
and
sat
with
its
happy
and
studious
occupant
for
an
hour
--
and
occasionally
the
fair
author
herself
came
and
dined
with
us
,
or
had
'
afternoon
tea
'
under
the
branching
elms
on
the
lawn
--
but
even
I
,
intense
egotist
as
I
was
,
could
see
that
Mavis
was
scarcely
herself
on
these
occasions
.
She
was
always
charming
and
bright
of
course
--
indeed
the
only
times
in
which
I
was
able
to
partially
forget
myself
and
the
absurdly
increasing
importance
of
my
personality
in
my
own
esteem
,
were
when
she
,
with
her
sweet
voice
and
animated
manner
,
brought
her
wide
knowledge
of
books
,
men
,
and
things
,
to
bear
on
the
conversation
,
thus
raising
it
to
a
higher
level
than
was
ever
reached
by
my
wife
or
me
.
Yet
I
now
and
then
noticed
a
certain
vague
constraint
about
her
--
and
her
frank
eyes
had
frequently
a
pained
and
questioning
look
of
trouble
when
they
rested
for
any
length
of
time
on
the
enchanting
beauty
of
Sibyl
's
face
and
form
.
I
,
however
,
paid
little
heed
to
these
trifling
matters
,
my
whole
care
being
to
lose
myself
more
and
more
utterly
in
the
enjoyment
of
purely
physical
ease
and
comfort
,
without
troubling
myself
as
to
what
such
self-absorption
might
lead
in
the
future
.
To
be
completely
without
a
conscience
,
without
a
heart
and
without
sentiment
was
,
I
perceived
,
the
best
way
to
keep
one
's
appetite
,
and
preserve
one
's
health
;
--
to
go
about
worrying
over
the
troubles
of
other
people
,
or
put
one
's
self
out
to
do
any
good
in
the
world
,
would
involve
such
an
expenditure
of
time
and
trouble
as
must
inevitably
spoil
one
's
digestion
--
and
I
saw
that
no
millionaire
or
even
moderately
rich
man
cares
to
run
the
risk
of
injuring
his
digestion
for
the
sake
of
performing
a
kindness
to
a
poorer
fellow-creature
.
Profiting
by
the
examples
presented
to
me
everywhere
in
society
,
I
took
care
of
my
digestion
,
and
was
particular
about
the
way
in
which
my
meals
were
cooked
and
served
--
particular
too
,
as
to
the
fashion
in
which
my
wife
dressed
for
those
meals
--
for
it
suited
my
supreme
humour
to
see
her
beauty
bedecked
as
suitably
and
richly
as
possible
,
that
I
might
have
the
satisfaction
of
considering
her
'
points
'
with
the
same
epicurean
fastidiousness
as
I
considered
a
dish
of
truffles
or
specially
prepared
game
.
I
never
thought
of
the
stern
and
absolute
law
--
"
Unto
whom
much
is
given
,
even
from
him
should
much
be
required
;
"
--
I
was
scarcely
aware
of
it
in
fact
--
the
New
Testament
was
of
all
books
in
the
world
the
most
unfamiliar
to
me
.
And
while
I
wilfully
deafened
myself
to
the
voice
of
conscience
--
that
voice
which
ever
and
anon
urged
me
in
vain
to
a
nobler
existence
--
the
clouds
were
gathering
,
ready
to
burst
above
me
with
that
terrific
suddenness
such
as
always
seems
to
us
who
refuse
to
study
the
causes
of
our
calamities
,
as
astonishing
and
startling
as
death
itself
.
For
we
are
always
more
or
less
startled
at
death
notwithstanding
that
it
is
the
commonest
occurrence
known
.
