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with our unuttered curses rising to our lips; with our muscles ready to act 

out their half…committed sins? 

     Bertha     stood   pale   at  the   foot  of   the  bed;   quivering     and   helpless; 

despairing      of  devices;    like  a  cunning     animal    whose     hiding…places     are 

surrounded by  swift…advancing flame。               Even   Meunier looked   paralysed; 

life for that moment ceased to be a scientific problem to him。                  As for me; 

this scene   seemed   of   one   texture   with   the   rest of   my   existence:     horror 

was     my   familiar;   and    this  new    revelation    was   only    like  an   old  pain 

recurring with new circumstances。 

     * * * 

     Since     then     Bertha    and     I  have     lived    apartshe     in   her    own 

neighbourhood; the mistress of half our wealth; I as a wanderer in foreign 

countries; until I came to this Devonshire nest to die。 Bertha lives pitied 



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and admired; for what had I against that   charming woman; whom  every 

one but myself could have been happy with?                There had been no witness 

of the scene in the dying room except Meunier; and while Meunier lived 

his lips were sealed by a promise to me。 

     Once or twice; weary of wandering;   I rested in a favourite spot;   and 

my heart went out towards the men and women and children whose faces 

were becoming familiar to me; but I was driven away again in terror at the 

approach of my old insightdriven away to live continually with the one 

Unknown Presence revealed and yet hidden by the moving curtain of the 

earth and sky。      Till at last disease took hold of me and forced me to rest 

hereforced   me   to   live   in   dependence   on   my   servants。    And   then   the 

curse of insightof my double consciousness; came again; and has never 

left me。    I know all their narrow thoughts; their feeble regard; their half… 

wearied pity。 

     * * * 

     It   is   the 20th   of   September;  1850。  I know   these   figures   I   have   just 

written; as if they were a long familiar inscription。            I have seen them on 

this   pace   in   my   desk   unnumbered   times;   when   the   scene   of   my   dying 

struggle has opened upon me 。 。 。 

     (1859) 



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