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Unobtruded, but visible between every line, ran a pure white thread through the smudged warp of the story the simple, all-enduring, sublime love of the old negress, following her mistress unswervingly through everything to the end. When at last she paused, the physician spoke, asking if the house contained whiskey or liquor of any sort.
Why not, according to the astronomical ignorance of those days, let her sail away, unconsorted by the sun, far beyond the valley of Ajalon? There was a reason, here, of secret, unobtruded science: if the sun stopped, the moon must stop too; that is to say, both apparently: the fact being that the earth must, for the while, rest on its axis.
He possesses also somewhat of Hawthorne's interest in ethical problems, with something of the same power of getting at the heart of them; he, too, has written his parables and apologs wherein the moral is obvious and unobtruded. He is uncompromisingly honest; and his conscience is as rugged as his style sometimes is.
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