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"Often and often," she said "But it looks so much darker when you show it to me!"

He made no answer to this excla throbbed between them in the wide quiet of the air

But suddenly she turned on him with a kind of vehemence "Why do you do this to s I have chosen seeivefit into which he had fallen He hi such lines; it was the last use he would have i of an afternoon's solitude with Miss Bart But it was one of those moments when neither see voice in each called to the other across unsounded depths of feeling

"No, I have nothing to give you instead," he said, sitting up and turning so that he faced her "If I had, it should be yours, you know"

She received this abrupt declaration in a way even stranger than the : she dropped her face on her hands and he saw that for a moment she wept

It was for a moment only, however; for when he leaned nearer and dren her hands with a gesture less passionate than grave, she turned on hiured by emotion, and he said to hi was an art

The reflection steadied his voice as he asked, between pity and irony: "Isn't it natural that I should try to belittle all the things I can't offer you?"

Her face brightened at this, but she drew her hand away, not with a gesture of coquetry, but as though renouncing so to which she had no claiently, "in being so sure they are the only things I care for?"

Selden felt an inner start; but it was only the last quiver of his egoism Almost at once he answered quite si of mine can alter that"

He had so coht carry him, that he had a distinct sense of disappoint with derision

"Ah," she cried, "for all your fine phrases you're really as great a coward as I am, for you wouldn't have made one of them if you hadn't been so sure of my answer"