began。 It
was as
though he
had fallen
into a
sewer。As
upon
another
life he
looked
back upon
that first
hard and
manlike
surrender，
that
surrender
terrifc
and hard，
like the
breaking
down of a
spiritual
skeleton
the very
sound of
whose
snapping
fibers
could be
heard
almost by
the
physical
ear， so
that the
act of
capitulation
was
anticlimax，
as when a
defeated
general on
the day
after the
last
battle，
shaved
overnight
and with
