Finch

falsest of proverbs is that you must lie on the bed that you have made

continue to find life with Strickland tolerable, but one of the

I thought it probable enough that Blanche Stroeve would not

himself; there was no reasoning with him

"
Stroeve had always been excitable, but now he was beside

hand-to-mouth, which the care she took of her home and h

It showed an eagerness for adventure, a readiness for the

establishment for what she could not but see was an extreme hazard

protection and the comfortable ease of a well-provided

She had abandoned the safe shelter of her husband's

recollections of his boyhood, Dirk Stroeve would forg

I thought that among those surroundings, with their

white, grazed
lazily

fields, with windmills here and there, in which cattle, black and

decay they kept still an aroma of their splendid past

I found that he was telling them to everyone he knew; he

account of his troubles

I do not think he resisted the temptation of giving her an

the concierge told him that Blanche had gone out

But he found his traps waiting for him in the porter's lodge, and

I persuaded him to stay the night with me, and I put him into my

He was evidently in no state to be left alone

he wanted to go out and walk about the streets till day

suggested that he should go to bed he said he could not sleep;

He had made no plans
When I

I persuaded him to stay the night with me, and I put him into my own bed

When I
suggested that he should go to bed he said he could not sleep;

He had made no plans