Excerpt from The Damask Girl: And Other Stories
Men often do what is gloomily incomprehensible to them afterward. To some this is habit, and their whole sad career is an accusing mosaic of accidental destinies, of which the most ill-timed and accidental of all is death.
Samuel Clifford West was in no sense a man of this limp and weather-vane variety, and having thus negatively defined him we know that he was of the masterly disposition that holds the reins of Fate firmly, and when the animal balks or frisks, whips it back to the track of Will and makes it prance to some purpose. If such a person forgets himself for a critical instant along life"s journey, the consequences to his mind are something as if the forces of nature should pause and forget to act for a few minutes: everything would be what? when the forces undertook to resume again.
West had not slept for four nights in his mad speed to reach his sick friend. Why couldn"t this oleaginous stage man hurry his brutes over the hills?
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