He calls half-past two thirty-eight
o'clock, and in twenty minutes from then he says it is one!
Is it that he really has grown to feel contempt for his master, and
wishes to show it? They say no man is a hero to his valet; may it be
that even stony-face Time himself is but a short-lived, puny mortal--a
little greater than some others, that is all--to the dim eyes of this
old servant of his? Has he, ticking, ticking, all these years, come
at last to see into the littleness of that Time that looms so great to
our awed human eyes?
Is he saying, as he grimly laughs, and strikes his thirty-fives and
forties: "Bah! I know you, Time, godlike and dread though you seem.
What are you but a phantom--a dream--like the rest of us here? Ay,
less, for you will pass away and be no more. Fear him not, immortal
men. Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of
Eternity!"
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