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"THINGS MUST HAPPEN".
Between two sunrises Louise Mazarine had seen her old world pass in a flash of flame and a new world trembling with a new life spread out before her; had come to know what her old world really was.

The eyes with which she looked upon her new world had in them the glimmer not only of awakened feeling but of awakened understanding.

To this time she had endured her aged husband as a slave comes to bear the lashes of his master, with pain which will be renewed and renewed, but pain only, and not the deeper torture of the soul; for she had never really grasped what their relations meant.

To her it had all been part of the unavoidable misery of life.