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The carrier pigeon or bird of passage will find its way over unknown wastes with unerring instinct, and in the same way do we arrive at some conclusions. Instinct and intuition take the place of argument, and in such conclusions we are rarely wrong.
What I had overheard about Violet and Horace de Vere, I felt convinced was simply the truth. It was his voice and her love for him, that had aroused the latent forces I had so much admired on the previous evening. If my wife had sworn to me that it was otherwise I should scarcely have believed her.