This is a place of blessing. When I came up my mountain three months
ago, alone and so miserable, no vision was vouchsafed me that I would go
down it again one of four people, each of whom would leave the little
house full of renewed life, of restored hope, of wholesome
looking-forward, clarified, set on their feet, made useful once more to
themselves and the world. After all, we're none of us going to be
wasted. Whatever there is of good in any of us isn't after all going to
be destroyed by circumstances and thrown aside as useless. When I am so
foolish--_if_ I am so foolish I should say, for I feel completely cured!
as to begin thinking backwards again with anything but a benevolent
calm, I shall instantly come out here and invite the most wretched of my
friends to join me, and watch them and myself being made whole.
The house, I think, ought to be rechristened.
It ought to be called _Chalet du Fleuve Jordan_.
But perhaps my guests mightn't like that.
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