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house, and composed myself for a quiet smoke. I hat lit my cigar and opened the volume I was reading at the time, when my wife, whom I had left dozing on a lounge, came out and took a rocking-chair near me.
"I wish you would talk to me, or read to me— or something," she exclaimed petulantly. "It's awfully dull here today."
"I'll read to you with pleasure," I replied, and began at the point where I had found my bookmark:—
" 'The difficulty of dealing with transformations so many-sided as those which all existences have undergone, or are undergoing, is such as to make a complete and deductive interpretation almost hopeless. So to grasp the total process of redistribution of matter and motion as to see simultaneously its several necessary results in their actual interdependence is scarcely possible. There is, however, a mode of rendering