Opening of Chapter 36, “Enthusiasm.”
“I began the next day with another dive into the Roman baths, and then started for Highgate. I was not dispirited now. I was not afraid of the shabby coat, and had no yearnings after gallent greys. My whole manner of thinking of our late misfortune changed. What I had to do was, to show my Aunt that her past goodness to me had not been thrown away on an insensible, ungrateful object. What I had to do was, to turn the painful discipline of my early days to account, by going to work with a resolute and steady heart. What I had to do was, to take my woodsman’s axe in my hands, and clear my own way through the forest of difficulty, by cutting down the trees until I came to Dora. And I went on at a mighty rate, as if it could be done by walking.”
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