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We please our fancy with ideal webs / Of innovation, but our life meanwhile / Is in the loom, where busy passion plies / The shuttle to and fro, and gives our deeds / The accustomed pattern.
Gwendolen's note, coming "pat betwixt too early and too late," was put into Klesmer's hands just when he was leaving Quetcham, and in order to meet her appeal to his kindness he, with some inconvenience to himself spent the night at Wanchester. There were reasons why he would not remain at Quetcham.