began。 It
was as
though he
had fallen
into a
sewer。As
upon
another
life he
looked
back upon
that first
hard and
manlike
surrender,
that
surrender
terrifc
and hard,
like the
breaking
down of a
spiritual
skeleton
the very
sound of
whose
snapping
fibers
could be
heard
almost by
the
physical
ear, so
that the
act of
capitulation
was
anticlimax,
as when a
defeated
general on
the day
after the
last
battle,
shaved
overnight
and with


