im but moonless
blackness, a bad lamp or two and a few far-away dim stars. To these last
faint features he raised his eyes; he had been saying to himself that he
should have been "sold" indeed, diabolically sold, if now, on his new
foundation, at the end of a year, St. George were to put forth something
of his prime quality--something of the type of "Shadowmere" and finer
than his finest. Greatly as he admired his talent Paul literally hoped
such an incident wouldn't occur; it seemed to him just then that he
shouldn't be able to bear it. His late adviser's words were still in his
ears--"You're very strong, wonderfully strong." Was he really? Certainly
he would have to be, and it might a little serve for revenge. _Is_ he?
the reader may ask in turn, if his interest has followed the perplexed
young man so far. The best answer to that perhaps is that he's doing his
best, but that it's too soon to say. When the new book came out in the
autumn Mr. and Mrs. St. George found it really magnificent. The former
still has published nothing but Paul doesn't even yet feel safe. I may
say for him, however, that if this event were to occur he would really be
the very first to appreciate it: which is perhaps a proof that the Master
was essentially right and that Nature had dedicated him to intellectual,
not to personal passion.

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