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"Now you do yourself injustice." After a moment's hesitancy she
added, "I am not quite in your mood to-day, and even Nature, as
your ally, cannot make me forget or even wish to forget."
"I do not wish you to forget, but merely cease to remember for a
little while. You say Nature is my ally. Listen: already the wind
is beginning to sigh in the branches overhead. The sound is low
and mournful, as if full of regret for the past and forebodings
for the future. There is a change coming. All that I wished or
could expect in you was that this serene, quiet day would give you
a respite--that complete repose in which the wounded spirit is
more rapidly healed and strengthened for the future."
"Have you been strengthened? Have you no fears for the future?"
"No fears, Helen. My life is strong in its negation. The man who
is agitated by hopes and fears, who is doomed to disappointments,
is the one who has not recognized his limitations, who has not
accepted well-defined conditions."
"Hobart, I'm going to put you on your honor now.


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