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He caught the train at Warborne, and moved rapidly towards Bath; not

precisely in the same key as when he had dressed in the hut at dawn, but,

as regarded the mechanical part of the journey, as unhesitatingly as

before.

And with the change of scene even his gloom left him; his bosom's lord

sat lightly in his throne. St. Cleeve was not sufficiently in mind of

poetical literature to remember that wise poets are accustomed to read

that lightness of bosom inversely. Swithin thought it an omen of good

fortune; and as thinking is causing in not a few such cases, he was

perhaps, in spite of poets, right.