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"Char aloddess herself, and I the wondering shepherd

on Mount Ida's solitude

"Charain, "you--have come then?" With the words

I rose "You have cohed a little, and, turning her head away, laughed

very sweet and low--and sighed again

"Were you expecting me?"

"I--I think I was--that is--I--I don't know!" I stammered

"Then you were not--very surprised to see me?"

"No"

"And you are not--very sorry to see lad to see me?

"Yes"

Here there fell a silence between us, yet a silence that was full

of leafy stirrings, soft night noises, and the languorous murmur

of the brook Presently Charan to turn it round and round in her white

fingers, while I sought vainly for soan at last, looking down

at the twig, "I didn't think I should ever coain"

"No, I--I supposed not," said I aardly

"But, you see, I had no money"