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"I shall hurry back to Madame Brossard's to see Keredec and here" I extended my hand toward her traps, of which, in a neatly practical fashion, she had made one close pack "let me have your things, and I'll take care of them at the inn for you. They're heavy, and it's a long trudge." "You have your own to carry," she answered, swinging the strap over her shoulder.
"Quesnay will be gay," I said, coming out to the table. Oliver Saffren was helping the professor down the steps, and Keredec, bent with suffering, but indomitable, gave me a hearty greeting, and began a ruthless dissection of Plato with the soup. Oliver, usually, very quiet, as I have said, seemed a little restless under the discourse to-night.
"My poor boy, it is the truth," said Keredec, kneeling beside him and putting a great arm across his shoulders. "It is what a thousand men are doing this night. Nothing is more common, or more unexplainable or more simple. Of all the nations it is the same, wherever life has become artificial and the poor, foolish young men have too much money and nothing to do.
"The lady who passed the inn three days ago. I spoke of her then, you remember." "Tonnerre de Dieu!" Keredec slapped his thigh with the sudden violence of a man who remembers that he has forgotten something, and as a final addition to my amazement, his voice rang more of remorse than of reproach. "Have I never told you that to follow strange ladies is one of the things you cannot do?"
"I don't understand," he murmured. "I thought you said always to speak the truth just as I see it." "I have telled you," Keredec declared vehemently, "nothing of the kind!" "But only yesterday " "Never!" "I understood " "Then you understood only one-half! I say, 'Speak the truth as you see it, when you speak. I did not tell you to speak! How much time have you give' to study sunshine and paint?
Ward's acrid laughter rang out in the room, and my admiration went unwillingly to Keredec for the way he took it, which was to bow gravely, as if acknowledging the other's right to his own point of view. "If you will study the antique busts," he said, "you will find that Socrates is Silenus dignified. I choose to believe in the infinite capacities of all men and in the spirit in all.
All I have is words that Keredec has said to me, and it's like a man with no eyes, out in the sunshine hunting for the light. Do you think words can teach you to resist such impulses as I had when I spoke to Madame d'Armand? Can life itself teach you to resist them? Perhaps you never had them?" "I don't know," I answered honestly.
"I look back and it's all BLIND! All these things you CAN do and CAN'T do all these infinite little things! You know, and Keredec knows, and Glouglou knows, and every mortal soul on earth knows but I don't know! Your life has taught you, and you know, but I don't know. I haven't HAD my life. It's gone!
"I saw a notice of it at the time. 'A notice? I saw a hundred!" "No. What you saw was that she had made an application for divorce. Her family got her that far and then she revolted. The suit was dropped." "It is true, indeed," said Keredec. "The poor boy was on the other side of the world, and he thought it was granted.
"You do not understand," George interposed again, "that what Professor Keredec risked for his 'poor boy, in returning to France, was a trial on the charge of bigamy!" The professor recoiled from the definite brutality. "My dear sir! It is not possible that such a thing can happen."
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