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"Never look at it?"
"No. I've watched you thirteen nights, and not once have you looked at the
sunset--not once."
He knitted his brows like one who encounters a problem.
"
Well, I enjoy the sunlight--the atmosphere--I go along this path,
through that gate"--he jerked his head over his shoulder--"and round--"
"You don't. You never have been. It's all nonsense. There isn't a way.
To-night for instance--"
"Oh! to-night! Let me see. Ah! I just glanced at my watch, saw that I had
already been out just three minutes over the precise half-hour, decided
there was not time to go round, turned--"
"You always do."
He looked at me--reflected. "Perhaps I do, now I come to think of it. But
what was it you wanted to speak to me about?"
"
"
Why, this!"
This?"
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