There is only one
thing more that I want to say; and that is that it is not fair to judge
our order by me. I know only too well how natural it is that you
should think all the men at the Clergy House weak and despicable like
me; but that is not so. They are sincere, self-forgetful fellows. You
have seen my friend Wynne. He, for instance, is as manly and fine and
honest as any man alive."
"I do not misjudge them or you, Mr. Ashe. I only feel that in these
past weeks you have not been yourself. We will forget it all, and I
hope that you will forgive me if I have hurt you."
"I have nothing to forgive. It is you who must do that. Good-by."
He went away with the remembrance of her beautiful eyes looking in pity
into his, and once more the phrase of the Persian came into his mind
like a refrain: "O thou, to the arch of whose eyebrow the new moon is a
slave!"
XXV
WHOM THE FATES HAVE MARKED
Comedy of Errors, i. I
Maurice soon heard from his lawyer that the missing desk had passed
into the hands of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Singleton, and that that lady
was staying at Montfield as the guest of Mrs.
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