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Evan Harrington

CHAPTER VII
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MOTHER AND SON.
Rare as epic song is the man who is thorough in what he does.

And happily so; for in life he subjugates us, and he makes us bondsmen to his ashes.

It was in the order of things that the great Mel should be borne to his final resting-place by a troop of creditors.

You have seen (since the occasion demands a pompous simile) clouds that all day cling about the sun, and, in seeking to obscure him, are compelled to blaze in his livery at fall of night they break from him illumined, hang mournfully above him, and wear his natural glories long after he is gone.


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