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"Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, / The positive pronounce without dismay; / Their want of light and intellect supplied / By sparks absurdity strikes out of pride: / Without the means of knowing right from wrong, / They always are decisive, clear, and strong. " / COWPER.
DINNER at The Brow was in full swing before anybody held a match to the combustible elements there gathered. Miss Devereux had made fretfully sure of an explosion. She held a ladylike belief that if a gun is present, it is sure to go off, forgetting that even a loaded gun will lie quiescent until somebody pulls the trigger.