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"The same old baffling questions! O my friend, / I cannot answer them... / "I have no answer for myself or thee, / Save that I learned beside my mother's knee / 'All is of God that is, and is to be; / And God is good. ' Let this suffice us still, / Resting in childlike trust upon His will / Who moves to His great ends, unthwarted by the ill. " / J. G. WHITTIER.
NEARLY a fortnight had passed since the memorable dinner-party; and Mr. Trevelyan had been unwell, even ill, all the fortnight through. That one moment of dire alarm about Jean appeared to have acted on him as the "last straw," minus which he might presumably have fought on a few weeks longer.