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When she opened and turned to hione from her, she was as new as a flower that

unsheathes itself and stands always ready, waiting, receptive

He could not understand this He forced hi, to the adherence to the line of honourable

courtship and sanctioned, licensed e and asked for her, she remained for

some days held in this one spell, open, receptive to him, before

hiave in

the banns Then he stood to wait

She remained attentive and instinctively expectant before

him, unfolded, ready to receive him He could not act, because

of self-fear and because of his conception of honour towards

her So he reradually she closed again, away from

him, was sheathed over, impervious to him, oblivious Then a

black, bottomless despair became real to hiood, he knehat it was

to have been in coain In

Till gradually he becaed in a revolt that knew no bounds Inarticulate, he

looradually she becaard to hian to open towards hiain He waited till the spell was between the, hastening flaain he was bewildered, he was tied up as with cords, and could

not move to her So she came to him, and unfastened the breast