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You may shut your eyes with a bandage, / The while world vanishes soon; / You may open your eyes at a knothole / And see the sun and moon.
It must have grieved anyone who cared for Andrew Dykeman, to see Mrs. St. Cloud's manner toward him change with his changed circumstances -- she had been so much with him, had been so kind to him; kinder than Carston comment "knew for a fact," but not kinder than it surmised.