with them.

He had retired from the world a young man, little more than a youth,
indeed, with  and wordnetdesire all of them suddenly
extinguished.  The first had bequeathed him a single huge , the
second a single trying duty.  In due time the  had lost
something of its , the light of earlier and happier memories
had begun to struggle with and to soften its thick darkness, and even
that duty which he had confronted with such an effort had become an
endurable habit.

At a period of life when many have been living on the capital of
their acquired knowledge and their youthful stock of 
until their intellects are really shallower and their  emptier
than they were at twenty, Dudley Veneer was stronger in thought and
tenderer in  than in the first freshness of his youth, when he
counted but half his present years.  He had entered that period which
marks the decline of men who have ceased growing in knowledge and
strength: from forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural
falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.  At
this time his inward: nature was richer and deeper than in any
earlier period of his life.  If he could only be summoned to action,
he was capable of noble service.  If his  could only find
an outlet, he was never