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"How easy it seems for noble souls to be noble! " thought I, as I followed Padiham up the neat staircase of his House of Charity. "What a beautiful vengeance it is of this man upon nature for blighting him! A meaner being would be soured, and turn cynic, and perhaps chuckle that others were equalized with him by suffering. He simply, and as if it were a matter of course, gives himself to baffling sorrow and blight. It is Godlike. " And I looked with renewed admiration at the strange figure climbing the stairs before me.
He was all head and shoulders, and his motions were like a clumsy child's. I went slowly after him. Was it true that this long love-chase over land and sea was at its ending? Joy is always a giant surprise, -- success a disappointment among the appointed failures. Was this grim dwarf to be a conjurer of happiness?