On reaching the churchyard, he perceived the melancholy procession descending the hill. CHAPTER XV. Whatever may happen to-morrow I shall be none the better for anticipating its miseries to-day. Vampires are very lonely creatures, John. Kneebone—she was too well acquainted; having, more than once, been obliged to repel his advances; and, though his impertinence would have given her little concern at another season, it now added considerably to her distraction. Spurlock understood that his vantage would be temporary; the Wastrel had been knocked down, not out. It had thrust her back with an undignified scuffle, with vulgar comedy, with an unendurable, scornful grin. She had made her first fight for dignity and freedom as a grown-up and independent Person, and this was how the universe had treated her. What a pity! For all her ignorance of material things—the human inventions which served the physical comforts of man—how much she knew about man himself! She had seen him bereft of all those spiritual props which permit man to walk on two feet instead of four—broken, without resilience. He believes that he is leaving this conscience behind; and I want to watch his disillusion on this particular point. The program was to include a Bach cantata, her favorite piece from Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, and for the first time ever, a student composition, a Concerto, by a precociously talented fellow student named Martin Chen.
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