A Day of Fate by Edward Payson Roe
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"Do you know the lady well?"
"Yes, I fear I do." "How strangely you look at me!" "Excuse me," I said, starting. "I fear I followed your example and was thinking of something else." But I let what I was thinking about slip out. "It was indeed a revelation. My thoughts will not interest you, I fear. The experience of a man who saw a mirage in the desert came into my mind." "I don't see what put that into your head." "Nor do I, now. The world appears to me entirely matter-of-fact." "I'm glad to hear you say that. Mother is always talking to me about spiritual meanings and all that. Now I agree with you. Things are just what they are. Some we like, and some we don't like. What more is there to say about them? I think people are very foolish if they bother themselves over things or people they don't like. I hope mother will take you to board, for I would like to have some one in the house who looks at things as I do." "Thanks. Woman's intuition is indeed unerring." "I declare, there comes Silas Jones with his new top-buggy. You won't |
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