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For ten days I have been with her every hour, except at night All the time I was allowed to look into her eyes, hold her hands, listen to what she said, accompany her wherever she went

My love seems to me like a deep, bottomless abyss, into which I subside deeper and deeper There is nothing nohich could saveon the meadow at the foot of the Venus-statue I plucked flowers and tossed them into her lap; she wound theoddess

Suddenly Wanda looked at ely that my senses becaration Losing co to her lips, and she--she drew ry?" I then asked her

"I a that is natural--" she replied, "but I ahtfully"

"Poor friend!" she brushed my disordered hair back froh any fault of mine"

"No--" I replied,--"and yet ht that I ht lose you, perhaps actually lose you, torht"

"But you don't yet possess ain she looked atexpression, which had already once before carried me away Then she rose, and with her small transparent hands placed a wreath of blue aneainst er live without you, oh wonderful woman," I said "Believe me, believe only this once, that this ti of dreas inseparably with yours If you leave o to pieces"

"That will hardly be necessary, for I love you," she took hold of my chin, "you foolish man!"

"But you will beto you unconditionally--"

"That isn't wise, Severin," she replied almost with a start "Don't you know ood when I am treated seriously and reasonably, but when you abandon yourself too absolutely to ant--"