Sons of Dives : a novel . mm CHAPTER XXIX. URGENT PRIVATE AFFAIRS. There is even a happinessThat makes the heart afraid. Hood. T li -THEN the mind is completely absorbed* * by some crushing anxiety, such asthe mortal sickness of our best beloved, weneither know nor care how it fares with theworld beyond our walls; but did we pauseto consider it would seem strange to us, thatthe crowded, busy, pleasure-seeking cityshould continue its course just the same, notheeding our sorrow, scarcely missing usfrom its throng, and, with but few excep-tions, not pausing in its business, or in its 222 SONS OF
Sons of Dives : a novel . mm CHAPTER XXIX. URGENT PRIVATE AFFAIRS. There is even a happinessThat makes the heart afraid. Hood. T li -THEN the mind is completely absorbed* * by some crushing anxiety, such asthe mortal sickness of our best beloved, weneither know nor care how it fares with theworld beyond our walls; but did we pauseto consider it would seem strange to us, thatthe crowded, busy, pleasure-seeking cityshould continue its course just the same, notheeding our sorrow, scarcely missing usfrom its throng, and, with but few excep-tions, not pausing in its business, or in its 222 SONS OF DIVES. revels. The same bargains are struck, thedance and the song lose nothing of theirmerriment, though a heart is breaking. It must ever be thus. The world cannotstand still, and so ever varying are itschanges, that though to-day the garlandmay be mine, and the yew in the hand of myneighbour, to-morrow our lots may be re-versed, and mine may be the house ofmourning. And it is well, I think, that theselfishness of sorro
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