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I have an absurd faculty, said he. I don’t know that I have ever mentioned it to anyone before. But when imminent danger is threatening me I got these strange forebodings. Of course it is absurd today in these peaceful surroundings. It only shows how queerly these things work. But it is the first time it has deceived me.

But the wisdom of men is small, and the ways of Nature are strange, and who shall put a bound to the dark things which may be found by those who seek for them?

They knew each other very well— so well that they could sit now in that soothing silence which is the very highest development of companionship.

Have some whisky, said Smith at last between two cloudbursts. Scotch in the jug and Irish in the bottle.

No, thanks. I’m in for the sculls. I don’t liquor when I’m training. How about you?

I’m reading hard. I think it best to leave it alone.

‘My son’, he said, turning his piercing and yet dreamy gaze upon Sir Overbeck, ‘all things lead to nothing, and nothing is the foundation of all things. Cosmos is impenetrable. Why then should we exist?’

We live in a scientific age, and I flatter myself that I move with the times.

Fool that I was ever to take you out of your true sphere!

If you think so, why do you not separate?

Because private misery is better than public humiliation. Because it is easier to suffer for a mistake than to own to it. Because also I like to keep you in my sight, and to know that you cannot go back to him.

You villain! You cowardly villain!

The human brain is capable of only one strong emotion at a time and, if it be filled with curiosity or scientific enthusiasm, there is no room for fear.