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I fainted, and my lightened balloon, resuming its flight, was lost beyond the sea. When I recovered my senses, I was in the house of a peasant, at Harderwick, a little town of Gueldre, fifteen leagues from Amsterdam, on the banks of the Zuyderzée. A miracle had saved me. But my voyage had been but a series of imprudences against which I had been unable to defend myself.
By smooth transition he passed to higher themes: with absent eyes turned to the laurel-planted court on to which the hall opened, he spoke as if scarcely aware of a listener, of troubles at Rome occasioned by imprudences, indiscretions what should he say of the Holy Father. As Petronilla bent forward, all tremulous curiosity, he lowered his voice, grew frankly confidential.
Unfailingly he was on the spot to ward off danger, or to save her from the effects of what he called her "carelessness," though he must have guessed the meaning underneath alleged imprudences. Sanda never confided in Max, yet she was aware that he could not help knowing why she refused to live with Stanton.
Whilst we were talking and drinking, the niece came and joined us: she was a decent, sensible young woman, who appeared to take a great interest in her uncle, whom she regarded with a singular mixture of pride and, disapprobation pride for the renown which he had acquired by his feats of old, and disapprobation for his late imprudences.
Gillman, for instance, who speaks on this point with the twofold authority of confidant and medical expert, records a statement of Coleridge's to the effect that, as a result of such schoolboy imprudences as "swimming over the New River in my clothes and remaining in them, full half the time from seventeen to eighteen was passed by me in the sick ward of Christ's Hospital, afflicted with jaundice and rheumatic fever."
That man's coming brought him face to face with the necessity to speak and act a lie; to appear what he was not and what he could never be, unless, unless There is a Nemesis which overtakes generosity too, like all the other imprudences of men who dare to be lawless and proud . . . " "Why do you say this?" I inquired, for Marlow had stopped abruptly and kept silent in the shadow of the bookcase.
Who could have told him on the night that he decided to marry, that he would come to such a pass to be afraid, to hide himself from her who brought him the calmness of sleep; and that by his fault, by a chain of imprudences and stupidities, as if it were written that in everything he would owe his sufferings to himself, and that if he ever succumbed to the whirlwind that swept him along, it would be by his own deed, by his own hand?
Or again, we have the light clear touches of a single line; "the decisiveness and consistency of despotism" "the fractional and volatile interests in trading adventure which go by the name of Shares" "the unlabelled, undocketed state of mind which shall enable a man to encounter the Unknown" "the qualifying words which correct the imprudences and derange the grammatical structure of a Queen's Speech": but these are islets in the sea of narrative, not, as in "Eothen," woof-threads which cross the warp.
Nothing had transpired during this period to induce Mr. Trevor to alter the opinion which he had entertained of him from the first; he believed him to be a man of honour, and, in spite of a few imprudences, of principle.
The small voice of his conscience still protested faintly at the unconventional character of their fellowship and reminded him that, whatever her indifference to consequences, his obligation to protect her from her own imprudences became the more urgent. But there was a charm in the situation which quite surpassed anything in his experience.
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