
NOVEMBER SECOND
Overmastering painâthe most deadly and tragical element in lifeâalas! pain has its own way with all of us; it breaks in, a rude visitant, upon the fairy garden where the child wanders in a dream, no less surely than it rules upon the field of battle, or sends the immortal war-god whimpering to his father; and innocence, no more than philosophy, can protect us from this sting.
âRobert Louis Stevenson.
