'I seem to be new-born, Jasper. Everything in the world is new to
me, and I am strange to myself. I have never known an hour of
happiness till now, and I can't believe yet that it has come to
me.'
She at length attired herself, and they left the house together,
of course not unobserved by the landlady. Jasper walked about
half the way to St Paul's Crescent. It was arranged that he
should address a letter for her to the care of his sisters; but
in a day or two the change of lodgings would be effected.
When they had parted, Marian looked back. But Jasper was walking
quickly away, his head bent, in profound meditation.
CHAPTER XXV. A FRUITLESS MEETING
Refuge from despair is often found in the passion of self-pity
and that spirit of obstinate resistance which it engenders. In
certain natures the extreme of self-pity is intolerable, and
leads to self-destruction; but there are less fortunate beings
whom the vehemence of their revolt against fate strengthens to
endure in suffering. These latter are rather imaginative than
passionate; the stages of their woe impress them as the acts of a
drama, which they cannot bring themselves to cut short, so
various are the possibilities of its dark motive.
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