Section 73  

  Section 74  

  Section 75  

  Section 76  

  Section 77  

  Section 78  

  Section 79  

  Section 80  

  Section 81  

  Section 82  

  Section 83  

  Section 84  

  Section 85  

  Section 86  

  APPENDIX  

  

  

 Section 1 

 Now and then it occurs to one to reflect upon what slender threads of accident depend the most important circumstances of his life; to look back and shudder, realizing how close to the edge of nothingness his being has come. A young man is walking down the street, quite casually, with an empty mind and no set purpose; he comes to a crossing, and for no reason that he could tell he takes the right hand turn instead of the left; and so it happens that he encounters a blue-eyed girl, who sets his heart to beating. He meets the girl, 

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