USE of going! I
tell you I will go if I starve, or have to rot in jail all my
lifetime. Furthermore, I will go this instant."
He went out of the room in a rage, rammed a few things into a bag,
and was out of the house in ten minutes. He was excusably unjust to
his wife--excusably, because he could not help thinking that she was
hard, and even cruel. Yet really she was not so, or if she was, she
was not necessarily so, for injustice, not only to others, but to
ourselves, is always begotten by a false relationship. There were
multitudes of men in the world, worse than Zachariah, with whom she
would have been, not only happier, but better. He, poor man, with
all his virtues, stimulated and developed all that was disagreeable
in her.
He was in no mood to rest, and walked on all that night. Amidst all
his troubles he could not help being struck with the solemn, silent
procession overhead. It was perfectly clear--so clear that the
heavens were not a surface, but a depth, and the stars of a lesser
magnitude were so numerous and brilliant that they obscured the forms
of the greater constellations. Presently the first hint of day
appeared in the east.
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