THE RETURN OF THE SOUL     

       By Robert S. Hichens     

  

       1896     

  

     “I have been here before, But when, or how, I cannot tell!”       Rossetti. 

   

   

       Contents     

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  IV.  

   

    

       I.     

 Tuesday Night, November 3rd.     

       Theories! What is the good of theories? They are the scourges that lash our minds in modern days, lash them into confusion, perplexity, despair. I have never been troubled by them before. Why should I be troubled by them now? And the absurdity of Professor Black’s is surely obvious. A child would laugh at it. Yes, a child! I have never been a diary writer. I have never been able to understand the amusement of sitting down late at night and scrawling minutely in some hidden book every paltry incident of 

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