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One of Our Conquerors

CHAPTER XXV
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She had never joined to the cry of the women.

Few among them were having it in the breast as loudly.
Hard on herself, too, she perceived how the social rebel had reduced her mind to propitiate a simulacrum, reflected from out, of an enthroned Society within it, by an advocacy of the existing laws and rules and habits.

Eminently servile is the tolerated lawbreaker: none so conservative.

Not until we are driven back upon an unviolated Nature, do we call to the intellect to think radically: and then we begin to think of our fellows.
Or when we have set ourselves in motion direct for the doing of the right thing: have quitted the carriage at the station, and secured the ticket, and entered the train, counting the passage of time for a simple rapid hour before we have eased heart in doing justice to ourself and to another; then likewise the mind is lighted for radiation.

That doing of the right thing, after a term of paralysis, cowardice--any evil name--is one of the mighty reliefs, equal to happiness, of longer duration.
Nataly had it.


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