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And, stung by the sight, Soames hurried on deeper into the shadow of the

trees

In this search, who knohat he thought and what he sought? Bread

for hunger--light in darkness? Who knohat he expected to

find--ie of the huedy--for, again, who knew, but that each dark couple,

unnaht not be he and she?

But it could not be such knowledge as this that he was seeking--the wife

of Soa in the Park like a cohts

were inconceivable; and from tree to tree, with his noiseless step, he

passed

Once he orn at; once the whisper, "If only it could always be like

this!" sent the blood flying again froed, for the two to irl in her draggled blouse who passed hi to

her lover's arm

A hundred other lovers too whispered that hope in the stillness of the

trees, a hundred other lovers clung to each other

But shaking hiust, Soa for he knew not what