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CHAPTER IV

AFTER RETIREMENT
FROM SERVICE.

"To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite;
To forgive wrongs darker than death or
night;
To defy Power which seems omnipotent;
To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates
From its own wreck the thing it contemplates;
Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent;
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This is alone Life, Joy, empire, and Victory."
P. B. Shelley.


Now that he gave up service under Government, he had to work out his own destiny. Encumbered with heavy responsibilities, with incessant calls of charity upon him, he must task to the utmost his best energies to preserve the even balance of his mind and continue in the strict path