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It was Stephen Gore who had ridden that steaming horse into the court-yard of Thorn-Stephen Gore, with jaded, twitching face, and eyes that looked weary with straining and gazing into the deeps of the night.
No man can be constantly and statuesquely selfish through life; the very whims and impulses of human nature are against such a frozen constancy in self-seeking. Nor can a man ever swear to being master either of himself or of his future; the whole gamut of the emotions are arrayed against him; a child may prove his vanquisher or a woman his seducer.