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"Not now, Gervais! Not now!" she faltered, interrupting him.
"Now-for the first and the last time. I am going. It is not likely that we shall ever meet again-that I shall ever see any of you again -you who should have been the nearest and dearest to me. We are all, he says, the sport of destiny. Ah, but not quite. Destiny is an intelligent force, moving with purpose. In life we pay for the evil that in life we do. That is the lesson that I have learnt to-night. By an act of betrayal I begot unknown to me a son who, whilst as ignorant as myself of our relationship, has come to be the evil genius of my life, to cross and thwart me, and finally to help to pull me down in ruin. It is just-poetically just. My full and resigned acceptance of that fact is the only atonement I can offer you.
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