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"I don't want to send you away I want to sleep

with you But I can't sleep, you don't let me sleep"

His blood turned black in his veins

"What do you ? It's an arrant lie I

don't let you sleep----"

"But you don't I sleep so hen I'm alone And I can't

sleep when you're there You do so to me, you put a

pressure on my head And I must sleep, now the child is

co wrong in

you"

Horrible in the extreme were these nocturnal combats, when

all the world was asleep, and they tere alone, alone in the

world, and repelling each other It was hardly to be borne

He went and lay down alone And at length, after a grey and

livid and ghastly period, he relaxed, soo, he did not care what becae and diueness had co And it was an infinite relief

to drown, a relief, a great, great relief

He would insist no more, he would force her no more He would

force hio, relax, lapse,

and ould be, should be

Yet he wanted her still, he always, alanted her In his

soul, he was desolate as a child, he was so helpless Like a