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there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghost-like, the spot where some great and marked event has given the color to their lifetime; and still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.

“In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endured by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.”