A JOURNEY TO NATURE 



&quot; She let me grow up to believe that she was a 

 necessity of my existence 



&quot; Raspberry jam,&quot; said the Doctor. 



&quot; Then she told me that she was engaged to 

 the village wheelwright.&quot; 



&quot; Well, I told you that three months ago. It 

 was part of the nature of things.&quot; 



&quot; Pardon me. It was a glaring impossibility 

 in the nature of things as you had taught me to 

 observe them. It was one of those outrages that 

 defy and desecrate the evolution of the beautiful. 

 It could not, it must not be. In my healthful 

 condition of mind, the wheelwright was a disease. 

 I must meet it as you would, and remove it, for 

 I had your example before me.&quot; 



&quot;Bosh!&quot; 



&quot; I found him. I was deadly calm and deter 

 mined. He was weakly frank and amiable. ( You 

 love Griselle, I said. Yes, I do, he answered, 

 with the bland innocence of a mollusk trying to 

 scale heaven. You thought of marrying her. 

 Dreamed of it for two years, he said. c But 

 you haven t accomplished your fell purpose, I 

 said between my teeth. ( I am waiting, he said, 

 until I can support a wife. You must be 

 aware by this time that you never can such a 

 wife, and that having wasted a reasonable length 

 of time in vain hopes, you ought to give some 

 one else a chance. f Oh, no, said this Lothario 

 of the workbench, f she will wait ten years. So 

 will I. Something will turn up at some time to 

 help us out. I have an old mother to take care 



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