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The March Family Trilogy

PART FIFTH
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We've done all we could, and there's nothing left but for them to bear it.

Of course it's awful, but I guess it 'll come out all right.

I mean," he added, "they'll pull through now." "I suppose," said March, "that nothing is put on us that we can't bear.
But I should think," he went on, musingly, "that when God sees what we poor finite creatures can bear, hemmed round with this eternal darkness of death, He must respect us." "Basil!" said his wife.

But in her heart she drew nearer to him for the words she thought she ought to rebuke him for.
"Oh, I know," he said, "we school ourselves to despise human nature.

But God did not make us despicable, and I say, whatever end He meant us for, He must have some such thrill of joy in our adequacy to fate as a father feels when his son shows himself a man.


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