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IN KEDAR'S TENTS
CHAPTER I
ONE SOWETH
' If it be a duty to respect other men's claims, so also is it a duty to maintain our own.'
IT is in the staging of her comedies that fate shows
herself superior to mere human invention.
While we, with careful regard to scenery, place our
conventional puppets on the stage and bid them play
their old old parts in a manner as ancient, she rings
up the curtain and starts a tragedy on a scene that has
obviously been set by the carpenter for a farce. She
deals out the parts with a fine inconsistency, and the
jolly-faced little man is cast to play Romeo, while the
poetic youth with lantern-jaw and an impaired
digestion finds no Juliet to match his love.
Fate, with that playfulness which some take too
seriously or quite amiss, set her queer stage as long
ago as 1838 for the comedy of certain lives, and rang 154