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PART 1

Once there lived a seafarer on the coast of England in a small hut with his wife and two children. His name was Samuel. He was fastidious in his ways. Though all the fishermen around him had given up primitive methods of fishing he still continued the old ways and even on being asked he gave a declination to their proposal and incurred losses. This made him revert from goodness and people saw that there was decadence in him.

One day after he returned from the trip he saw some people buying fish from the others. When he put up the fish he had bought, for sale nobody bought it coz it had rotten on the way back. After the customers had left he started to use Vitriol on other fishermen. They all collected around him but he stood to his ground in a bravado way.

PART 2

There was a huge hustle bustle around the place. Samuel's wife, a Virago, came out. Samuel looked at her and knew he had much more trouble than he was ready for. HE remembered he had first seen her with a schoolman, he didn't know that the contretemps would change the course of his life, thinking she also would be a scholar, he had asked for her hand in marriage. Only later he realized that he was wrong. He always thought that if she would have been educated, her parents would have never agreed to their marriage and allowed her to live with him in his HOVEL. There was a noise at the sea shore, that served as red herring for Samuel, letting him escape from the scene.

PART 3

It was only in his later years of marriage that Samuel had discovered that his wife Anna was vacuous. The beauty of her skin that had attracted him was now replaced by a pallid skin and he realized that external beauty is ephemeral. He had become lovelorn and fishing which was once his hobby and passion now had just become perfunctory and this was clearly evinced in his earnings .Anna's constant interference had been an impedance he faced and this had not only vitiated his earnings but also his moral self. He tried to stay least at home and even quaffed the food hurriedly. He had tergiversated a lot of times in his arguments so that he could escape from her as soon as possible.

PART 4

One night, in spite of living in a country with Shogunate government, leaving his daughter in febricity, the one he loved most in the macrocosm, Samuel quit his home to obtain certain acquittance from his friend Henrick. On his way he stayed in a hostelry so that he could reach Henrick's home early.

PART 5

In spite of being tired and somnolent Samuel continued his journey after a short stay at the inn. The wind being Gelid he was shivering with cold, but continued his journey, though he could hardly see anything because the sun still hadn't risen. The road was edged with sere vegetation which made the walk all the more dull. Henrick was not only a money lender but also Samuel's friend. Henrick was more educated than him so he wanted his help in financial and personal matters. He had a brought a small parcel with him which contained the fresh catch from the sea knowing Henrick liked the unadulterated fish which was not easily found in the country. He knew he will have to put forth a cogent talk to make Henrick believe him.

PART 6

Next morning Samuel reached Henrick's house. He knew Henrick was Laconic in his expressions, Vindictive by Nature. Samuel remembered that henrick was not like that from his childhood days. When they were young Henrick was Facetious and wanted to be a sailor by profession but the things had not turned out the way he wanted .Due to certain litigations he had given up his dreams and this had made him Obdurate. Samuel reached the door and knocked .It was opened by a woman in mid 30's .She spoke loudly and with a vehemence tone. She was dressed in a shabby grey gown and her hair was tied up in a bun. Samuel asked her about Hen rick on which he was shown into a small parlor which was designed in a Bucolic way. She lit the fire in the fireplace and while bringing the fire to flames that had died out at night, her hands were blackened by cinder dust but she didn't seem to mind it and continued her work. He was then told Hen rick will be with him in a few minutes. He nodded his head and sat there. He saw a nonpareil painting of a Lady wearing MOIR silk dress. Henrick came into the room after about ten minutes. He looked at him and smiled. Samuel was relieved that Hen rick didn't mind him seeing there.

He asked him to sit down. They both chatted for sometime after which it was announced that Lady Mitchell was coming in. Henrick told him that it was his wife. Samuel looked up and saw that it was the same lady in grey gown that came in. Samuel was shocked. She, wife of Henrick, What an Opprobrious wife she must be wife of such a rich man and dressed like that. But he was wrong. After that came in a Lady, dressed in a gown of soft green color with her hair left in loose curls about her, pretty face. Henrick stood up as she came in. But there was a look of reproach in his eyes as if he was not happy with his marriage. The lady came in and sat down with them after a small introduction by the host. The lady passed inimical comments about Samuel's profession, which didn't make a difference to him as he was used to them by now, Henrick didn't like his wife commenting on his friend's occupation.

Samuel then gave Hen rick the gift he had brought. He told him that the fish was unadulterated and was salubrious as it contained no Harmful chemicals that were present in the fish available in the market. The clock stuck ten. The lady got up and excused herself telling that she must see to household work. She left the room and suddenly Henrick felt Malaise. He told Samuel about it who followed the way the Mitchell had taken and called out. He was answered immediately by a man servant. Samuel told him about henrick and with his help took henrick to his room. The doctor was called for immediately. The doctor administrated a percutaneous medicine which had to be given to him every 3 hours. Only after the Doctor left did Samuel look about the room. He saw that though the rest of the house was decorated grandiloquently, Henrick's room was Spartan but beautiful. There were cream colored bed hangings around his four poster bed. There was a study table on which there was some kind of an instrument in which a reticle of threads was placed. It looked quite extraordinary to Samuel for threads to be placed on an instrument. He sat down on a chair and remembered the time his father used to tell him about the moon, stars and the ether that made it all. They used to sit under the shade of the tree in the garden and his father used to spend hours telling him stories. Though over the years his stories had become banal he never got tired listening to them. The memories of his childhood were still Limpid as though it had taken place only a day before. He remembered the day when the big people from town had come to take away the house from them. They had brought along with them an Integrator to calculate the area of their house. The machine had engrossed him and he had always wanted to learn how that works but fate had taken away all that they had. Within a few months of the incident his father had passed away which left him with no choice except to make his own living. It was hours since he had been sitting there on a chair all by himself. Henrick was still unconscious lying on his bed. It was late in the evening, Samuel knew by the darkness outside. Mitchell came in and explained in prolixity the reason for Henrick's condition.

Part 11

Anna reached back home and saw that Samuel was lying on the bed. She didn't know how to persuade him to have the medicines. Samuel descried Anna standing in the door way. Anna looked at him and staring at her and entered .She handed over the medicines to him and started to narrate the happenings in an assuage way. Samuel didn't like Anna bringing the herbs for him and depreciated her hard work and patience. He even Razed the stool that was lying next to him. He Inveighed her by telling her about her inability to do any work properly. Anna stood their quietly. Though she had never hesitated to be loud and scold him, but today she didn't want to. In his absence she had realized that he was impeccable part of her life and now she wanted to give their relation another chance.

Part 12

Samuel was shocked at Anna's behavior. His wife who was usually obstreperous looked lugubrious. Samuel was confused over Anna's behavior. He had never known that Anna could be so sensitive towards him. Anna shook her head, and without a word moved about the house clearing it up. He saw that there was a grace in her lissome, slender form which he had always failed to notice. Anna was talking to him, like they had been married yesterday, about the work, about the neighbors, of her pastoral life and how much she loved it. Samuel felt as if she had always been of jocund nature but he had failed to realize it. He thought weather he had come to the netherworld and this lady in front of him was the lady he had always wanted as his wife, but soon his thoughts were broken by a knock on the door. Anna opened the door. He could see that there was a man who was wearing a lumberjack of blue color. The way Anna was talking to him, it was palpable that there was some bad news he was reporting.

Palpable: obvious, clear, plain.

1. Coterie: a social, literary or other exclusive circle.

2. Dead pan: an expressionless face

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Part 13

After few moments Anna turned back into the house closing the door behind her. After a heinous silence of about 3 minutes Anna spoke in a low voice and told him that it was a fisherman from the neighborhood who had come to tell them about the death of a fellow fisherman, William. He had died while saving a child who had fallen from a promontory from the arms of a woman who was sitting there. They looked like they had been trapped there, because the others had found them when they had gone to look for William. He had come to ask for money for the necrology.

Samuel had paid only cursory attention to the details of William's death as it made no difference to him. He had bend debauched by all of them. For him all his fellows were the vilest creatures of universe.

Anna did not pay any heed to Samuel and talked on about William's laudable act.

Samuel was called in the evening to attend the gathering to pay the last respects to William. Samuel rejected them impudently. He refused to pay even an iota of amount for the last rites to be performed.

William's son came out of the house, who was about 8 years of age, and his buffoonery shocked them. Everybody was animadverting on the child's behavior failing to understand the condition of shock he was in.

Part 14

Samuel didn't come to the gathering but he was able to see them all from his window. He realized that he already had been home for past 3 days and he must go back to his friend's house to take over his responsibilities. He realized that his own worth had been escalated and he was so happy about the events that had occurred in his life recently that he caroused all night outside the hut. It was late in the morning when he finally woke up. He realized that he was outside is his house and lying on the floor. He turned to go inside the house when he saw that man who was enfeebled to due to his age was walking past him, his head bent down and his eyes showing signs of weariness. Without realizing what he was doing, he walked up to the old man and asked him to come in. the old man looked up at him and took his offer gratefully and started to walk back towards Samuel's house with him. Samuel asked him where was his family and why was he walking all alone at this age. To this the old man replied"I was a happy man at one time in my life, my profession to record opus. I had money, name and fame, but I had a problem. I never learnt to jibe with others nor hesitated to obdurate my ideas on others without asking them or considering them. I was a hardcore business man who was insentient towards his own family and people. When my family started detesting me I do not know, but now in the penultimate years of my life, when I want my family back my people back I do not know how to go back and here I am wandering on the streets of London. I didn't know that my insentient behavior would become the seminal factor of my future. "

Samuel took him in and asked Anna to serve something to the old man immediately. Though Anna tried to tell him that there was nothing at home except the left over's of the few insipid bushes that she had cooked last night. But Samuel did not hear her and she was forced to serve whatever she had.

When the old man had eaten whatever Anna could serve him he went into the backyard to wash his hands where he saw a duck sitting near the hedge. When he did not return for a long moment, Anna went to see him. She saw him staring at the palmate feet of the Duck.

Part 15

As soon as he became aware of her presence he just walked away from there before she could ask him anything. Anna still could not understand the reason for Samuel's reason of complaisance the old man. It seemed to her as a clear allegory of some past forgotten favor. When she went in look of him, her daughter told that Samuel had gone to sea. She was taken back by his sudden departure. When he returned in the evening he gave her small bag and asked her to prepare the dish with rich sauce.

Samuel went into the backyard immediately, though after the work at sea he looked lassitude. Anna stared at him at then at the bag. Few days back they lived on eleemosynary and today Samuel was spending so much for the old man. She prepared the calamari as she was told. At the dinner table everybody liked the dish and she received encomiums from everyone.

Samuel arranged a bed for the old man near the fire. They all went off to sleep. Samuel had totally forgotten about going back to work but the time was going to remind him soon of that.

Early next morning when they got up they saw that the old man was not there. Samuel was a bit worried about him and went in search of him in the neighborhood. When he returned back he saw that the old man was in the house reading the newspaper and talking about the conflagration between England and France to Anna and the leaders constant filibuster even at this time. Anna was in compliance with him. She kept herself refrained in talking to him much for she still could not understand Samuel behavior towards him.

When they were alone for a while Anna asked Samuel the reason for the old man staying with them. Samuel told her that they were in subserviency. Even on Anna's continuous persistence Samuel remained obstinate about telling her anything. To Anna it seemed like he was going under abstinence period and turning sacrosanct.

She had never known him to be so assiduous and he was clearly transcending in his ways towards life. She had started to believe that she was going berserk due to his continuous soporific lectures he gave her even for her smallest mistakes and his sudden condescending manner and his obsequious about his own self seemed very unlike him to Anna.

He had even proscribed Suzanne (their daughter) to play with her friends and even embargoed Anna to attend to the obsequies of her friend's father.

He had given dispensation to their son of his behavior, how had this been done was a mystery to both the mother and daughter.

Anna had believed that Samuel was becoming perspicacious but instead he was becoming insinuating and she ascribed the old man's company for this.

PART 16

One fine morning there was a sonorous banging on the door. Samuel got up and opened it to find a man wearing a sensuous fur coat. The man was conspicuously of not this part of the country. He looked sinister but still Samuel gave him a convivial welcome into the house. The man lied on the sofa comatose.

After a while when he was able to get up he gave them an introduction of themselves though to Anna it seemed Inconsequential and transcendental, Samuel understood the reason of the man to be there.

Samuel knew that now he will have to leave. His plans were sabotaged and trip truncated by his arrival.

He carried out the job of fixing up certain things for his family consummately and even arranged for superfluous supplies of daily needs for them.

He explained everything to Anna and told her that she will have to deal with things on her own for some time till he is not able to arrange for something for them. He told her that she will not be blasphemous towards the old man whatever may happen. He told her that she had not been able to see his abilities and always thought him to be subverting the house but he will one day transmogrify them.

Samuel left early next day and as soon as they left the village he saw that his way was sinuous, thinking that his life was also like that.

They stopped at an inn to change the horses and to have their supper. There Samuel saw people who were in white. On asking the waiter told them that they were sectarians from the far eastern countries and they were preaching the word of god to all. After some time he saw that at a mistake of the waiter the same people were vituperating him. It was an equivocal to Samuel how can such people be called the followers of God when they could not even respect human beings around them.

There entered another group of people who were talking in a vociferate manner making him feel vertigo. These people seemed to be sanguinary and the whole atmosphere had perverted with the entry of these people. These people transgressed all the laws of being in a public place but nobody seemed to have the notion to say anything to them. Samuel paid the bill and left the inn.

On his way back he was cogitating about what he had just seen and realized that his position now, i.e. the vicissitude that god bestowed upon him was to be dealt with these human wrong doings. His discovery of his goal obviated his need to take the journey and he asked the driver to drive back his village and handed a note to the other gentle man.

Part 17

Samuel reached back home and Anna told him that the old man had left. Samuel didn't say anything about it. She was shocked at it. She had expected him to be truculent at this news. He asked Anna to pack the stuff that is necessary as they were leaving the next day. Anna asked him but Samuel just gave an inscrutable smile to her.

Anna was too shocked to say anything and she started to pack her bags. She got her daughter to help her out and send her son a message to be back on time.

Early next morning there was a wagon standing there. They loaded their luggage and left. Samuel was in a congenial frame of mind throughout the journey.

Anna still did not know where they were travelling to. After a journey of about 5 hours, the wagon came to a halt. Anna got down the wagon and she saw a sight which made her congeal. Samuel had brought his family to their new residence i.e. Henrick's house.

Anna was welcomed into the house with love and respect by Mitchell. She was shown into a room by her hostess. As it was already late into the afternoon Mitchell called Anna for supper. Anna noticed that most of the dishes there were done with condiment. When anna called a servant standing there the servant answered her but he was not looking at her. Mitchell saw that Anna was a bit taken aback by it. Mitchell then told Anna that the servant had squint in his eyes. Anna's compunction over her mistake was great.

Anna did not say anything for the rest of the lunch but she was complacent over the various new things that she encountered.

Anna then went to her room and she dressed herself in the best of the gowns that she had and she wore a chain. It was her best but she knew that for the residents of house it was a bauble.

In the evening Mitchell asked Anna to hire a maid. Anna asked her how she should go about it. Mitchell then told her that Samuel had told them that he will be bringing his family so Mitchell had winnowed certain people and Anna now just had to select the one which suits her most. Anna was not used to this but she knew the new circumstanced required her to be a profligate, though she did not like it.

Anna was a laggard in this procedure. She took over three hours to select a maid. She knew that Samuel was nonchalant about the house hold matters but she knew too that he would not stop to vilify her if she became a obstacle to her in his work.

In spite of knowing that she was taking more time than necessary she continued her work for she was dogged upon having a maid was very hard working and honest not a vixen who would cheat on her.

Part 18

It had been over two months since Anna and Samuel had come to Henrick's house. Henrick was still in convalescence though he was still tenuous after the accident. He was able to move around the house now and not confined to his room.

Anna was now rich. Samuel had been working very hard. She was not the impotent Lady now who could not help anyone but she was known for her generosity as she was always ready to help the penurious around her.

She had even started studying. A tutor came home and taught her. She was a fast learner. Soon he taught her zoology, though she could never understand much of it. She hardly remembered the names of the bones but he made her learn that the smallest bone in the body was ossicle and the largest bone was femur.

Anna had become practical in her thinking with the gain of knowledge. Her quixotic thinking was now replaced by an empirical way of life. Her puerile thinking was now the thing of past. She had now the masterly Finesse of weaving.

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looks like mehr gone//even i will jump out now..bye see ya..