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It was a day early in the month of May when I said good-bye to / Clarissa. The next day following that afternoon when she had expressed / her wish to go home, I went away myself, leaving her in the care of / Moxon with instructions that when she was ready to return to Dominica / I should be sent for. How could I have stayed on there in the house, / seeing her possibly every day, knowing that each hour was drawing / nearer to that moment when my life was to be empty once more? It was / better to train myself to the knowledge of it at once, wherefore I went / away seeking the loneliness that was bound to come.
I sometimes think she felt my absence a little during her / convalescence; but there is more hope than belief in the thought.