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Often the first shock of some unexpected mental blow shakes from the soul, not its corresponding emotion, but that emotion's exact antithesis. Thus, when Jason spoke I laughed. I could not on the moment believe that such hideous retribution was demanded of my already writhed and repentant conscience, and it seemed to me that he must be jesting in very ugly fashion.
Perhaps he looked astonished; anyhow he said: