The Zeit-Geist

. It was like a small thimbleful of wine to one who longed for a generous draught; there was nothing else to do but to wait, alert for all chances

om in impatience; as it was she sat still by the table which held the beer a

house again in order to ke

to the door

ail she was incapable of conceiving, but one glance proved to her its reality. She was struck by the consciousness of meeting an element in life which was wholly new to her. When such a thing forces itself upon our attention, however indefinite and unexpressed ma

o me as if you were in for a bout of chills; and enough to

se to the table and

land is." She saw by this that he had no intention of upbraiding her with his fall, or o

u to-day that I didn't believe a bit. I

ng the fabric and the stitches. "I took one glass," he said, with the curious

e of himself, not to take a glass when he wants it just because he

lack is white, Ann, it wi

; "and you've got more call to know th

f the last year put strength into his words. "If I thought you ever coul

to herself. It was the first time it ever occurred to her to think that she was unworthy of the love he had for her; but at the same moment she felt a shadow extinguish the rays of hope she had begun

he said despairingly; "if we don't take to drink it will

o be quite incapable of the future she suggested, but th

I won't see you again for a long time; but you kno

n hope, and perhaps another feeling to which she gave no name,

l I can to help him to get away. It won't be much use perhaps. It is most likely that he will only get away from this locality to be arrested

s her, not clearly but indistinctly, that the chief element in her suffering had been the shame of defying law and propriety rather than let her father undergo a just penalty. In some way or other this had been all transferred to Bart, and in the glimmering understanding

quite easily, more easily than any other man in the world could, and then come back and go on with his life as before. Questions of conscience had never, so far, clouded Ann's mental horizon. A moment's effort to regain her habitual standpoint made it quite clear to her that in this case it was she, she and Christa, who were making the sacrifice; a minute

ng finery. We will stop being friends with worldly people, and we will

ote the vow twice on two pages of his note-book; at the bottom he added, "Go

power to revolutionise her life and control her sister's, and all the unreasoning child-likeness of faith w

counts good must be stronger than those which he counts evil, because the inner belief of his mind is in unity with them. Toyner believed to-night that he was in open revolt against a rule of life which he had found himself unable to adhere to, and against the God who had ordained it; but, all the same, it was this