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It would serve his turn, and even as the consummation of infinite waiting he would bend his pride to accept it. IT WOULD SERVE HIS TURN AND EVEN AS THE CONSUMMATION OF INFINITE WAITING HE WOULD BEND HIS PRIDE TO ACCEPT IT
he Park, into which he had passed, and stared before him at his recurrent doubt. Away from her the doubt pressed again; in her presence he had believed her, but as he felt his forlornness he threw himself into the explanation that, nearest at hand, had most of a miserable warmth for him and least of a cold torment. She had deceived him to save him--to put him off with something in which he should be able to rest. What could the thing that was to happen to him be, after all, but just this thing that had began to happen? Her dying, her death, his consequent solitude--that was what he had figured as the Beast in the Jungle, that was what had been in the lap of the gods. He had had her word for it as he left her--what else on earth could she have meant? It wasn't a thing of a monstrous order; not a fate rare and distinguished; not a stroke of fortune that overwhelmed and immortalised; it had only the stamp of the common doom. But poor Marcher at this hour judged the common doom sufficient. G AND HE WOULD LOSE HER SHE WAS DYING AND HIS LIFE WOULD END HE STOPPED IN THE PARK INTO HE HAD PASSED AND STARED BEFORE HIM AT HIS RECURRENT DOUBT AWAY FROM HER THE DOUBT PRESSED AGAIN IN HER PRESENCE HE HAD BELIEVED HER BUT AS IF TO THE EXPLANATION NEAREST AT HAND HAD MOST OF A MISERABLE WARMTH FOR HIM AND LEAST OF A COLD TORMENT SHE HAD DECEIVED HIM TO SAVE HIM TO PUT HIM OFF WITH SOMETHING IN WHICH HE SHOULD BE ABLE TO REST WHAT COULD THE THING THAT WAS TO HAPPEN TO HIM BE AFTER ALL BUT JUST THIS THING THAT HAD BEGUN TO HAPPEN HER DYING HER DEATH HIS CONSEQUENT SOLITUDE THAT WAS WHAT HE HAD FIGURED AS THE BEAST IN THE JUNGLE THAT WAS WHAT HAD BEEN IN THE LAP OF THE GODS HE HAD HAD HER WORD FOR IT AS HE LEFT HER WHAT ELSE ON EARTH COULD SHE HAVE MEANT IT WASN'T A THING OF A MONSTROUS ORDER NOT A FATE RARE AND DISTINGUISHED NOT A STROKE OF FORTUNE THAT OVERWHELMED AND IMMORTALIZED IT HAD ONLY THE STAMP OF THE COMMON DOOM BUT POOR MARCHER AT THIS HOUR JUDGED THE COMMON DOOM SUFFICIENT
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