Chapter 15

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌​‌‌‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​‌​‌‌‌​‌​​​‌​‌​​⁠The business was practically settled from the moment I never followed him. It was a pitiful surrender to agitation, but my being aware of this had somehow no power to restore me. I only sat there on my tomb and read into what my little friend had said to me the fullness of its meaning; by the time I had grasped the whole of which I had also embraced, for absence, the pretext that I was ashamed to