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"You CUR," she said, and suddenly put her hand to her breast. He thought
she meant to faint, but she stood, with the colour gone from her face.
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No," he said. "I love you."
Love!" said she.
Yes--love."
There are ways yet," she said, after a pause.
Not for you. You are too full of life and hope yet for, what is
it?--not the dark arch nor the black flowing river. Don't you think of
it. You'll only shirk it when the moment comes, and turn it all into
comedy."
She turned round abruptly from him and stood looking out across the
parade at the shining sea over which the afterglow of day fled before
the rising moon. He maintained his attitude. The blinds were still up,
for she had told the waiter not to draw them. There was silence for some
moments.
At last he spoke in as persuasive a voice as he could summon. "Take it
sensibly, Jessie. Why should we, who have so much in common, quarrel
into melodrama? I swear I love you. You are all that is bright and
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