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And then, in the darkness, he bent to her mouth, softly, and

touched her mouth with hishis lips on her lips She kept still,

helpless Then hissurge rose within her, she opened her lips to

hinant eddies she drew hiing, surging, soft, oh soft,

yet oh, like the powerful surge of water, irresistible, till

with a little blind cry, she broke away

She heard hiely, beside her A

terrible and eness possessed her

But she shrank a little noithin herself Hesitating, they

continued to walk on, quivering like shadows under the ash trees

of the hill, where her grandfather had walked with his daffodils

to one with her

young husband, walking close upon hi

upon Skrebensky

Ursula are of the dark li

overhead, clothed with leaves, and of fine ash leaves tressing

the su in coether He held her hand, and they went the long way round by

the road, to be farther Always she felt as if she were

supported off her feet, as if her feet were light as little

breezes in ht with

the sa kiss She are noare of