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CHAPTER VI He stayed away, after this, for a year; he visited the depths of Asia, spending himself on scenes of romantic interest, of superlative sanctity; but what was present to him everywhere was that for a man who had known what _he_ had known the world was vulgar and vain. IN THE JUNGLE HE STAYED AWAY AFTER THIS FOR A YEAR HE VISITED THE DEPTHS OF ASIA SPENDING HIMSELF ON SCENES OF ROMANTIC INTEREST OF SUPERLATIVE SANCTITY BUT WHAT WAS PRESENT TO HIM EVERYWHERE WAS THAT FOR A MAN WHO HAD KNOWN WHAT HE HAD KNOWN THE WORLD WAS VULGAR AND VAIN
bly have less to say to him, it might, by a possibility of suggestion, have more. Before he quitted London, however, he made a pilgrimage to May Bartram's grave, took his way to it through the endless avenues of the grim suburban necropolis, sought it out in the wilderness of tombs, and, though he had come but for the renewal of the act of farewell, found himself, when he had at last stood by it, beguiled into long intensities. He stood for an hour, powerless to turn away and yet powerless to penetrate the darkness of death; fixing with his eyes her inscribed name and date, beating his forehead against the fact of the secret they kept, drawing his breath, while he waited, as if some sense would in pity of him rise from the stones. He kneeled on the stones, however, in vain; they kept what they concealed; and if the face of the tomb did become a face for him it was because her two names became a pair of eyes that didn't know him. He gave them a last long look, but no palest light broke.  CHAPTER SIX OF THE BEAST IN THE JUNGLE BY HENRY JAMES THIS IS A LIBRAVOX RECORDING ALL LIBRAVOX RECORDINGS ARE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO VOLUNTEER PLEASE VISIT LIEBRAVOX DOT ORG CHAPTER SIX OF THE BEAST
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