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The Half-Hearted

CHAPTER VIII
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Formerly he had thought of himself--for the man was given to self-portraiture--as the adventurer, the scorner of the domestic; now he struggled to regain the old attitude, but he struggled in vain.

The ways were blocked, a slim figure was ever in view, and lo! when he blotted it from his sight the world was dark and the roads blind.

For a moment he had lost his bearings on the sea of life.

As yet the discomfiture was sweet, his confusion was a joy; and it is the first trace of weakness which we have seen in the man that he accepted the unsatisfactory with composure.
At the door of Etterick it became apparent that something was astir.
Wheel-marks were clear in the gravel, and the ancient butler had an air of ceremony.

"Mr.Wratislaw has arrived, sir," he whispered to Lewis, whereat that young man's face shone.
"When?
How?
Where is he now ?" he cried, and with a word to his companions he had crossed the hall, raced down a lengthy passage, and flung open the door of his sanctum.


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