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If he could at any rate have conceived lifting the veil from his image at some moment of the past (what had he done, after all, if not lift it to _her_?) IF HE COULD AT ANY RATE HAVE CONCEIVED LIFTING THE VEIL FROM HIS IMAGE AT SOME MOMENT OF THE PAST WHAT HAD HE DONE AFTER ALL IF NOT LIFT IT TO HER
oments during which, turning things over with a good conscience but with a bare horizon, he found himself wondering if he oughtn't to have begun, so to speak, further back. He found himself wondering indeed at many things, and this last speculation had others to keep it company. What could he have done, after all, in her lifetime, without giving them both, as it were, away? He couldn't have made known she was watching him, for that would have published the superstition of the Beast. This was what closed his mouth now--now that the Jungle had been thrashed to vacancy and that the Beast had stolen away. It sounded too foolish and too flat; the difference for him in this particular, the extinction in his life of the element of suspense, was such as in fact to surprise him. He could scarce have said what the effect resembled; the abrupt cessation, the positive prohibition, of music perhaps, more than anything else, in some place all adjusted and all accustomed to sonority and to attention. S FOLLOWED FAST ON THESE THE MOMENTS DURING WHICH TURNING THINGS OVER WITH A GOOD CONSCIENCE BUT WITH A BARE HORIZON HE FOUND HIMSELF WONDERING IF HE OUGHTN'T TO HAVE BEGUN SO TO SPEAK FURTHER BACK HE FOUND HIMSELF WONDERING INDEED AT MANY THINGS AND THIS LAST SPECULATION HAD OTHERS TO KEEP IT COMPANY WHAT COULD HE HAVE DONE AFTER ALL IN HER LIFETIME WITHOUT GIVING THEM BOTH AS IT WERE AWAY HE COULDN'T HAVE MADE KNOWN SHE WAS WATCHING HIM FOR THAT WOULD HAVE PUBLISHED THE SUPERSTITION OF THE BEAST THIS WAS WHAT CLOSED HIS MOUTH NOW NOW THAT THE JUNGLE HAD BEEN THRASHED TO VACANCY AND THAT THE BEAST HAD STOLEN AWAY IT SOUNDED TOO FOOLISH AND TOO FLAT THEFFERENCE FOR HIM IN THIS PARTICULAR THE EXTINCTION IN HIS LIFE OF THE ELEMENT OF SUSPENSE WAS SUCH AS IN FACT TO SURPRISE HIM HE COULD SCARCE HAVE SAID WHAT THE EFFECT RESEMBLED THE ABRUPT CESSATION THE POSITIVE PROHIBITION OF MUSIC PERHAPS MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE IN SOME PLACE ALL ADJUSTED AND ALL ACCUSTOMED TO SENORITY AND TO ATTENTION
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