Glimpses of the pictures his deeds painted of him since his first meeting with this woman had to be shunned.

He threw them off; they were set down to the mystery men are.

The degrading, utterly different, back view of them teaches that Life is an irony.

If the teaching is not accepted, and we are to take the blame, can we bear to live?
Therefore, either way the irony of Life is proved.

Young men straining at thought, in the grip of their sensations, reach this logical conclusion.