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“Good-by, Cutrone!” It was a hoarse, shaky voice from some near-by cell—Clyde could not tell which. “Go to a better world than this.” And then other voices: “Goodby, Cutrone. God keep you— even though you can’t talk English.”

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On the contrary, being a moral if not a physical coward, as his own story seemed to suggest,

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“A case of being betwitched, my poor boy—by beauty, love, wealth, by things that we sometimes think we want very, very much, and cannot ever have—that is what I mean, and that is what much of the love in the world amounts to.”

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“Friends, this thing has happened millions of times in this world of ours, and it will happen millions and millions of times in the days to come. It is not new and it will never be old.

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'And when at last these two were ready to go, he was sorry. For with them near him, planning and plotting in regard to himself, he felt so much safer, stronger, more hopeful, more certain of being free, maybe, at some future date."

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"He shrunk and congealed spiritually, the revealing effects of his so poorly conceived and executed scheme weighing upon him as the world upon the shoulders of an inadequate Atlas."

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"It was all so plain, now."

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"The way of the Lake. The way of the Lake."

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"Again the mere identification of this lorn, dilapidated realm with Roberta and hence himself, was sufficient to cause him to wish to turn and run."

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"He had refused to help her. He had refused to help her. And now what?"

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"And what a beggar Clyde must be to attempt to attach himself in this way when he knew that he was not wanted! What sort of a youth was he, anyhow?"

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"She slipped a white arm under Clyde’s and he felt as though he were slowly but surely being transported to paradise."

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"For while Clyde was obviously very impatient and eager to be with her as much as possible, still he did not appear to be very ready with suggestions—available ones."

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"As for the parents of Roberta, they were excellent examples of that native type of Americanism which resists facts and reveres illusion."

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