Mauritius

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"But when you see him—Mr. Durham—tell him I didn't mean that—I'm not with anybody—"

"... the intention to make a mistake," he added.It was only later that he realized how vulgar it was.

Ada hid her face, she couldn't take it anymore.

"I won't tell him. I'll never see Durham again, and I can't tell him anything. You've ruined our friendship, and it's all right now."

Sobbing, she said, "I don't care if it breaks. You've always been cruel to us, always have been." He finally became cruel.He saw that the younger sisters were obedient on the surface, but they hated him in their hearts.Even at home, he had no success to speak of.He whispered, "It's not my fault," and walked away from her.

The educated man is more refined in manners, and perhaps less tortured.Maurice had no intelligence, no religion, and lacked that wonderful consolation of self-compassion that some people possess.Other than that, his temperament was normal, and he acted like any normal man who was betrayed by his wife after two years of happiness.It does not matter to him that nature fills in the missing stitch, so that she may continue to weave her pattern.When he had love, he kept his sanity.Now he sees Clive's change of heart as a betrayal, and Ada is the cause.In a few hours he was back in the abyss in which he had wandered in boyhood.

After this outbreak, his life continued.He took that train to London as usual, earning and spending money as before.He still read the old papers and talked to his colleagues about strikes and divorce laws.At first he prided himself on his self-control.Didn't he already hold Clive's reputation in his hands?However, he was even more resentful, and he hoped that while he still had that strength, he would shout out and throw this deceitful pretense aside.So what if he himself was involved?His family, his social status—it didn't matter to him over the years.He was an outlaw in disguise, perhaps fled into the Greenwood once upon a time. representative, and the money received was given to the poor.) There are two like him—two.Two people can challenge the whole world. Sometimes he has such a dream and enjoys it.

At the heart of the distress is loneliness.He was a dull man, and it took him a while to realize it.The incestuous jealousy, the humiliation, the anger at old stupidity—all this would pass away, as would all the hurt it had done him.Memories of Clive may pass, but loneliness lingers.He woke up, gasping, "I have nobody!" "Oh, my God, what the hell is this!" Clive began to appear in his dreams.He knew there was no one, but Clive's sweet smile and saying, "I'm real this time," tortured him.Once he dreamed the same dream he had had earlier about faces and voices.A dream within a dream, more hazy.Other old dreams also frequently entered the dreamland, trying to break him down.Day and night, the endless silence of death enveloped the young man.One morning, on a train to London, he thought he was actually dead.What's the use of earning money, eating, and living a decent life?That's all he does or has ever done.

"Life is a bad play," he exclaimed, crumpling the Daily Telegraph.

The other passengers didn't dislike him and laughed.

"I'd jump out the window without giving a damn."

After all, he began to think carefully about suicide, and nothing could stop him.He has no fear of death, doesn't believe in an afterlife, and doesn't care about embarrassing his family.He knew that loneliness was hurting him, so he became more hateful and more and more depressed.Under such circumstances, is it better to die?He began to compare what methods and means should be adopted. If something unexpected happened, he would shoot himself.Grandfather's illness and death put him in a new state of mind.

During this period, Clive sent several letters, but the letters always said: "Let's not meet." Now he understood his situation-his friend would do anything but refuse stay with him.Clive had been like that since his first illness, and it was the kind of friendship he would offer hereafter.Maurice was devoted, but his heart was broken.He never fancied that he could win Clive back, and he understood what he had to understand with a firmness that noble people envy.He drank bitters to the last drop.

Maurice wrote back, letter by letter, with astonishing sincerity.What he wrote was still true, and he confided that he was so lonely that he would die from a blown head within a year.But he wrote without emotion, rather as a tribute to their heroic past, which was how Durham accepted it, and his reply was emotionless.One thing was evident: no matter what he tried, no matter how hard he tried, he would never again be able to read Maurice's mind.

Maurice's grandfather is a model of old age and success.He had been an ordinary industrialist all his life—smart, quick-tempered—but he retired not too late, and with unexpected results.He developed a taste for "reading," and the direct effect of generosity and kindness on his character was grotesque.The opinions of others—what was previously thought to be refuted or ignored—now seem to be worthy of attention, and the wishes of others are given as much as possible.His unmarried daughter Ada, who is his housekeeper, worries what will happen when "my father has nothing to do."She was an insensitive person, and she didn't notice that he had changed until he was about to leave her.

The old gentleman devoted his leisure to developing a new religion, or rather a new theory of cosmogony, since it was not against the Church.The main argument is: God exists in the sun, its light wheel is composed of the souls of the blessed, and sunspots reveal the existence of God to people.Therefore, whenever a sunspot appeared, Mr. Grace sat for hours in front of the telescope, watching the dark nucleus of the sunspot The dark core is called the "umbra", and the brighter outer ring is called the "penumbra".). "Word incarnation" (translation note: "Tao" refers to Jesus. "Word incarnation" is the central doctrine of Christianity. It is said that the Word of God is the Son of God, the second person of the Trinity God incarnate, that is, Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ is God , is also a person, Christ is "born of God, not created by God", so Jesus is not a creature, but the Creator) is a kind of sunspot.

He talked about his discovery to everyone.However, he said that everyone has their own aspirations, so he has no intention of converting others to his belief.Clive Durham, who had had a long conversation with him, knew his point of view like the back of his hand.It's a practicalist's view of trying to think spiritually - ridiculous and materialistic, but first-hand.Because of this, Clive, an admirer of ancient Greek civilization, got along well with him.

Now he is dying.The past, which was not necessarily completely righteous, has disappeared. He wholeheartedly looks forward to reuniting with the people he loves, and when the time comes, the people he left behind will also reunite with him.He called his former employees to his bedside.These people were disillusioned with him, but "followed the old hypocrite."He called for the family, and he was always good to them.His last days were beautiful.To explore why it is so beautiful, it is too much to ask the bottom line.When a dear old man lay dying, the gardens of Alfriston were filled with a fragrance of sorrow and peace that only a cynic would try to dispel.

Relatives came one after another.Everyone was impressed except Maurice.Mr. Grace had made the contents of the will public long ago, and everyone knew what they were getting, so it aroused no one's curiosity. His beloved granddaughter Ada inherited the property and homestead with his aunt.The others also had a share, and Maurice made no offer to claim his share.He did not force Death to come sooner, but Death would wait for the right moment to meet him, probably on his return to London.

But the appearance of his companion disturbed him.His grandfather was preparing to set off for the sun, his illness had made him garrulous, and on a December afternoon he gushed to his grandson: "You read that in the paper, Maurice. You noticed the new theory. Be it..." According to reports, the meteor swarm hit the rings of Saturn, and the fragments that were knocked off fell into the sun.Mr. Grace believes that after the death of the wicked, the souls are driven to the outer planets of the solar system.He did not believe in the doctrine of eternal hell, so he was always worried about how to save the souls of wicked people.The new doctrine explains this, and these souls are broken into pieces and re-incorporated into the good!The young man listened politely and seriously, and was suddenly seized with a sense of dread that the nonsense might be true.This fear was fleeting, but it made him change his mind, and his whole character changed.He was convinced that his grandfather's faith was convincing.A living person reappears and he performs a creative act