Chapter 45

           Therearemomentswheninconnectionwiththesensitivelyimaginativeormorbidlyanachronistic—thementalityassailedandthesamenotofanygreatstrengthandtheproblemconfrontingitofsufficientforceandcomplexity—thereasonnotactuallytopplingfromitsthrone,stilltottersoriswarpedorshaken—themindbefuddledtotheextentthatforthetimebeing,atleast,unreasonordisorderandmistakenorerroneouscounselwouldappeartoholdagainstallelse.Insuchinstancesthewillandthecourageconfrontedbysomegreatdifficultywhichitcanneithermasternorendure,appearsinsometorecedeinprecipitateflight,leavingonlypanicandtemporaryunreasoninitswake.

           Andinthisinstance,themindofClydemightwellhavebeencomparedtoasmallandroutedarmyinfullflightbeforeamajorone,yetatvarioustimesinitsprecipitatedeparture,pausingforamomenttomeditateonsomewayofescapingcompletedestructionandinthecoincidentpanicofsuchastate,resortingtotheweirdestandmosthaphazardofschemesofescapingfromanimpendingandyetwhollyunescapablefate.Thestrainedandbedeviledlookinhiseyesatmoments—themannerinwhich,frommomenttomomentandhourtohour,hewentoverandoverhishithertopoorlybalancedactionsandthoughtsbutwithnosmallestdoorofescapeanywhere.AndyetagainatmomentsthesolutionsuggestedbytheiteminTheTimes–Unionagainthrustingitselfforward,psychogenetically,bornofhisownturbulent,eageranddisappointedseeking.

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