I never intended it to be anything but a short story, for I had never completed even the shortest of stories unless forced to in grammar school. Oblige me by acting under my guidance in the matter, Sir Rowland. With what airs we human atoms invest ourselves! What ridiculous fancies of our importance! We believe we have destinies, when we have only destinations: that we are something immortal, when each of us is in truth only the repository of a dream. It was debauching, this—a devilish art which drew such strange allurements from a face and figure almost Madonna-like in their simplicity. To-morrow, when she returned to Hong-Kong, she would purchase a simple but modern dress. "I understand," replied the stranger, unable to repress a smile. In one of these seats, at the end of the aisle farthest removed from the chancel, the widow took her place, and addressed herself fervently to her devotions. It was like the grin of a fiend, and made my flesh creep on my bones. Gerald smiled and crooked his elbow.
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