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about to involve, it and everyone else. Happily, 

 we are made so, just as surely as the kitten is 

 so made. We catch at straws, and in nine cases 

 out of ten the straw saves us. Were it not for 

 this same blessed prerogative of being interested 

 in trifles, what, one sometimes asks oneself, would 

 become of all our poor wits ? or where on a 

 journey so full of loss and sorrow, shock and 

 trouble, would they have got to before the final 

 goal is reached ? 



