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Even if the former, no one could look upon the murderer without utter pity a child could see that within the jail of that face the miserable man lay doomed to solitary imprisonment for life !Īs I put this face away from my very eyes with an effort almost physical, Dr. The details I have wholly forgotten, but the youth had killed some dearest friend, killed him or her instantly, terribly, − intentionally or accidentally, I do not recall. The impossibility of the owner thereof ever smiling again, that was the impression made upon every eye, which was the fact also and I knew the reason even before I asked and found my supposition right. No absence of either mind or heart from it both intensified rather and brought to an unusual degree to the surface and congealed there.

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It is the countenance of a young man, say of sixteen, struck, while in full health and youthful enjoyment, with sudden anguish and old age a rose as it opened smitten forever with a frost which petrified while it killed ! As was the case with every one upon first seeing it, that Medusa-like face arrested my attention and terrified me.

It is struck into my memory like a medallion if I had the least skill with pencil or brush, I could place it before you, never to be forgotten again by you either. Only a face ! It is a large, honest, unbearded, very white, and exceedingly sorrowful face. I have no memory of the place in which I first saw it, or the name of the person to whom it belonged, not even of the rest of the body. I have but to close my eyes, and this moment there floats before their inner vision a certain face which I cannot forget forever. In strict justice to the West, let me say that my earliest experience dates from a time before I started thither. Through all the web of my life in the West, like a scarlet thread, there ran − murder, coldblooded murder ! Allow me to record some of the instances of this, merely asking the reader to be so kind as to do his own moralizing as we go along. But it is not of this I wish to speak now, nor of any other of my manifold experiences while being trained − I wish it had turned out a worthier graduate−at the exceedingly severe Oxford or Cambridge in question. That, however, was the fault of the giver, an instance of his one weakness. I recall that my horse was a good deal too handsome, and my saddle and like equipment vastly more striking in finish than was at all necessary, judicious even, for such a mission. It seems to me like yesterday, that morning I obeyed, and left for that then westernmost West.

Go apart from any good you may do, where good is most needed to be done, it is the best of all schools in which to be taught for your work ! ” Here is an invitation for you from the very wildest part of all that region. Laying his hand upon my head he said to me : “ The first thing for you to do is to go West. He was with me that day I emerged into a more actual existence from the shell of the Institution − no better institutions than that same in all the land − in which I had been preparing for my life’s work. THERE lives to-day in a wider world than this a certain man who was to me while here the most perfect specimen of our species I have ever seen.

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