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Chapter 42 Finis
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Man cannot prophesy1. Love is no oracle2. Fear sometimes imagines a vain thing. Those years of absence! How had I sickened over their anticipation3! The woe4 they must bring seemed certain as death. I knew the nature of their course: I never had doubt how it would harrow as it went. The juggernaut on his car towered there a grim load. Seeing him draw nigh, burying his broad wheels in the oppressed soil — I, the prostrate5 votary6 — felt beforehand the annihilating7 craunch.
Strange to say — strange, yet true, and owning many parallels in life’s experience — that anticipatory8 craunch proved all — yes — nearly all the torture. The great Juggernaut, in his great chariot, drew on lofty, loud, and sullen9. He passed quietly, like a shadow sweeping10 the sky, at noon. Nothing but a chilling dimness was seen or felt. I looked up. Chariot and demon11 charioteer were gone by; the votary still lived.
M. Emanuel was away three years. Reader, they were the three happiest years of my life. Do you scout12 the paradox13? Listen. I commenced my school; I worked — I worked hard. I deemed myself the
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prophesy
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determined
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legacy
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intimidate
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penury
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monarch
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wrecks
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