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I. He had a mortal dislike, poor Stransom, to lean anniversaries, and he disliked them still more when they made a pretence of a figure.
II. He had this year, on the eve of his anniversary, as it happened, an emotion not unconnected with the range of feeling.
III. The next day, in the afternoon, in the great grey suburb, he felt that his long walk had tired him.
IV. Every year, the day he walked back from the great graveyard, he went to church as he had done the day his idea was born.
V. They fell at last into the way of walking together almost every time they met, though, for a long time, they never met anywhere save at church.
VI. She was always in mourning, yet the day he came back from the longest absence he had yet made her appearance immediately told him she had lately had a bereavement.
VII. He learned in that instant two things: one of them was that even in so long a time she had gathered no knowledge of his great intimacy and his great quarrel; the other was that in spite of this ignorance, strangely enough, she supplied on the spot a reason for his confusion.
VIII. He had ruthlessly abandoned her—that, of course, was what he had done.
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