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Delia could never understand his suffering. He had always been a lonely figure, but he was lonelier now than he had ever been. He was proud of his loneliness, and he understood it. He was a solitary man, not an ordinary family man, not a domesticated sort of person. He believed his loneliness came from a deep source in his nature, and that it made him more sensitive than other men, and at the same time stronger.