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She reached down and put a hand on his head, but he only looked from

one to the other of us, unhappy

"Don't you love me, Helena?" I asked quietly, after a ti, can you not love onized Partial And until,

soht her

dark hair against my cheek and kissed her hair and stammered in her

ear, and turned her face and kissed her eyes and her cheek and her

lips many, many times, Partial held his peace and issued no

decision At least, I did not hear hi now, her head on my shoulder, as we sat on the locker

seat, and Partial's head was on the cushion beside us, and he was

silent and overjoyed, and tranquilly happy--seeing perhaps, that a

quiet ho to live

happy ever after And after I drew Helena's head closer to my face, I

kissed her hair

"Do you love me, Helena?" I asked "Only the truth now, in God's

name!"

"You know I do," she said, and I felt her arms about my neck

"Have you, always?"

"I think so, yes It seems always"

"We have been cruel to each other"

"Yes, are cruel now"

"Ho?"