"Yes, I must make it clear to myself and understand," he thought, looking intently at the untrampled grass before him, and following the movements of a green beetle, advancing along a blade of couch-grass and lifting up in its progress a leaf of goat-weed.

" What have I discovered?" he asked himself, bending aside the leaf of goat-weed out of the beetle's way and twisting another blade of grass above for the beetle to cross over onto it.

" What is it makes me glad? What have I discovered? "I have discovered nothing.

I have only found out what I knew.

I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life.