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than into himself He paced

round his room with a selective tread upon the more prominent blooirl will be the light of my

life while I am at Hintock; and the special beauty of the situation is

that our attitude and relations to each other will be purely spiritual

Socially we can never be inti likeas she is, would be absurd They

would spoil the ethereal character of ard And, indeed, I have

other aims on the practical side of ht on the advantageous ood as his own, and of

purse er But as an object of contemplation for the present,

as objective spirit rather than corporeal presence, Grace Melbury would

serve to keep his soul alive, and to relieve the monotony of his days

His first notion--acquired froht of her without

converse--that of an idle and vulgar flirtation with a

tirated painfully upon him now that

he had found what Grace intrinsically was Personal intercourse with

such as she could take no lower form than intellectual coht Since he could not call

at her father's, having no practical views, cursory encounters in the

lane, in the wood, co

her dwelling, hat the acquaintance would have to feed on