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I CALL this the Saddest Story, rather than "The Ashburnham Tragedy", just because it is so sad, just because there was no current to draw things along to a swift and inevitable1 end. There is about it none of the elevation2 that accompanies tragedy; there is about it no nemesis3, no destiny. Here were two noble people—for I am convinced that both Edward and Leonora had noble natures—here, then, were two noble natures, drifting down life, like fireships afloat on a lagoon4 and causing miseries5, heart-aches, agony of the mind and death. And they themselves steadily6 deteriorated7. And why? For what purpose? To point what lesson? It is all a darkness.
There is not even any villain8 in the story—for even Major Basil, the husband of the lady who next, and really, comforted the unfortunate Edward—even Major Basil was not a villain in this piece. He was a slack, loose, shiftless sort of fellow—but he did not do anything to Edward. Whilst they were in the same station in Burma he borrowed a good deal of money—though, really, since Major Basil had no particular vices9, it was difficult to know why he wanted it. He collected—different types of horses' bits from the earliest times to the present day—but, since he did not prosecute10 even this occupation with any vigour11, he cannot have needed much money for the acquirement, say, of the bit of Genghis Khan's charger—if Genghis Khan had a charger. And when I say that he borrowed a good deal of money from Edward I do not mean to say that he had more than a thousand pounds from him during the five years that the connection lasted. Edward, of course, did not have a great deal of money; Leonora was seeing to that. Still, he may have had five hundred pounds a year English, for his menus plaisirs—for his regimental
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speculation
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champagne
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grievance
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blackmailer
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perfectly
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lamentable
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complaisant
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exhausted
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cane
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locust
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undoubtedly
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sneer
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lavishly
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postulate
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advisers
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intrigues
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jealousy
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gratitude
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magnetism
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