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Everything fell together, confessed, explained, overwhelmed; leaving him most of all stupefied at the blindness he had cherished. EVERYTHING FELL TOGETHER CONFESSED EXPLAINED OVERWHELMED LEAVING HIM MOST OF ALL STUPEFIED AT THE BLINDNESS HE HAD CHERISHED
seen _outside_ of his life, not learned it within, the way a woman was mourned when she had been loved for herself: such was the force of his conviction of the meaning of the stranger's face, which still flared for him as a smoky torch. It hadn't come to him, the knowledge, on the wings of experience; it had brushed him, jostled him, upset him, with the disrespect of chance, the insolence of accident. Now that the illumination had begun, however, it blazed to the zenith, and what he presently stood there gazing at was the sounded void of his life. He gazed, he drew breath, in pain; he turned in his dismay, and, turning, he had before him in sharper incision than ever the open page of his story. The name on the table smote him as the passage of his neighbour had done, and what it said to him, full in the face, was that she was what he had missed. This was the awful thought, the answer to all the past, the vision at the dread clearness of which he turned as cold as the stone beneath him.  ANGUISH OF INWARD THROBS HE HAD SEEN OUTSIDE OF HIS LIFE NOT LEARNED IT WITHIN THE WAY A WOMAN WAS MOURNED WHEN SHE HAD BEEN LOVED FOR HERSELF SUCH WAS THE FORCE OF HIS CONVICTION OF THE MEANING OF THE STRANGER'S FACE WHICH STILL FLARED FOR HIM AS A SMOKY TORCH IT HADN'T COME TO HIM THE KNOWLEDGE ON THE WINGS OF EXPERIENCE IT HAD BRUSHED HIM JOSTLED HIM UPSET HIM WITH THE DISRESPECT OF CHANCE THE INSOLENCE OF ACCIDENT NOW THAT THE ILLUMINATION HAD BEGUN HOWEVER IT BLAZED TO THE ZENITH AND WHAT HE PRESENTLY STOOD THERE GAZING AT WAS THE SOUNDED VOID OF HIS LIFE HE GAZED HE DREW BREATH IN PAIN HE TURNED IN HIS DISMAY AND TURNING HE HAD BEFORE HIM IN SHARPER INCISION THAN EVER THE OPEN PAGE OF HIS STORY THE NAME ON THE TABLE SMOTE HIM AS THE PASSAGE OF HIS NEIGHBOUR HAD DONE AND WHAT IT SAID TO HIM FULL IN THE FACE WAS THAT SHE WAS WHAT HE HAD MISSED THIS WAS THE AWFUL THOUGHT THE ANSWER TO ALL THE PAST THE VISION AT THE DREAD CLEARNESS OF WHICH HE TURNED AS COLD AS THE STONE BENEATH HIM
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