e course of which time he
learned that the discoveries in Highcombe Street had been forgotten by
the crowd, other social sensations having blurred them out.
His own troubles had grown fainter, too, as the time wore on; but for
two years he did not see Isabel again. Then they met one day by
accident and another day not by accident, and by slow degrees, while
tortured by shame and remorse at having, as he told himself, thrown
everything worth living for away, he learned what a weak, foolish
creature a woman who has once truly loved a man can be, and said, as
many of us say--
"What a miserable desert this world would be if there was no forgiveness
for such a sin as mine!"
The End.
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