lice and without scruple or remorse.
His conduct exhibited a passionateless expediency which was dreadful
because utterly unhuman. But he was a strong man--a courageous,
self-contained man, and I had been better pleased if it could have been
ordained that some other hand than mine should let the axe fall."

Thorndyke's compunction may appear strange and inconsistent, but yet
his feeling was also my own. Great as was the misery and suffering
that this inscrutable man had brought into the lives of those I loved,
I forgave him; and in his downfall forgot the callous relentlessness
with which he had pursued his evil purpose. For it was he who had
brought Ruth into my life; who had opened for me the Paradise of Love
into which I had just entered. And so my thoughts turned away from the
still shape that lay on the floor of the stately old room in Lincoln's
Inn, away to the sunny vista of the future, where I should walk hand in
hand with Ruth until my time, too, should come; until I, too, like the
grim lawyer, should hear the solemn evening bell bidding me put out
into the darkness of the silent sea.

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