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No backward path; ah! no returning; / No second crossing that ripple's flow: / Come to me now for the mist is burning: / Come ere it darkens; Ah, no; ah, no! / -- JEAN INGELOW.
Jasper Quentyns was quite certain that he was behaving admirably under circumstances of a specially trying nature.