Romance: A NovelDoubleday, 1931 - 541 pages |
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Page 183
... heart nor from your conscience nor from your gratitude . Gratitude from you ! As if it were not I that owe you gratitude for hav- ing condescended to stand with your hand in mine- if only for a moment - if only to bring peace to a dying ...
... heart nor from your conscience nor from your gratitude . Gratitude from you ! As if it were not I that owe you gratitude for hav- ing condescended to stand with your hand in mine- if only for a moment - if only to bring peace to a dying ...
Page 190
... heart , " I said . " He had asked me , too , to renounce my trust , my light . " We walked on slowly , accompanied in our sudden silence by the plash of the fountain at the bottom of the great square of darkness on our left , and by the ...
... heart , " I said . " He had asked me , too , to renounce my trust , my light . " We walked on slowly , accompanied in our sudden silence by the plash of the fountain at the bottom of the great square of darkness on our left , and by the ...
Page 248
... heart as if in a vice . The stillness of the dark shore struck me as unnatural . I imagined the yell of the discovery breaking it , and the fancy caused me a greater emotion than the thing itself , I flatter myself , could possibly have ...
... heart as if in a vice . The stillness of the dark shore struck me as unnatural . I imagined the yell of the discovery breaking it , and the fancy caused me a greater emotion than the thing itself , I flatter myself , could possibly have ...
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