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outwardly to her, but underneath a solid power of antagonisradually aware And it irritated her

to be made aware of him as a separate power She lapsed into a

sort of sombre exclusion, a curious communion with mysterious

powers, a sort of mystic, dark state which drove him and the

child nearly mad He walked about for days stiffened with

resistance to her, stiff with a will to destroy her as she was

Then suddenly, out of nowhere, there was connection between the in the fields The

tension, the bond, burst, and the passionate flood broke forward

into a trenificent rush, so that he felt he could

snap off the trees as he passed, and create the world

afresh

And when he arrived hon between them He

waited and waited till she ca and splendid to hioodly, he felt a stupendous power

in hi blood

She was sure to come at last, and touch him Then he burst

into flame for her, and lost hih at the bottoain, wholesale, mad to revel in the inexhaustible wealth