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like this, the end will come much, much too soon"

"What is it, dear one?"

"What? I've been waiting in agony for an hour, two hoursNo,

I won'tI can't quarrel with you Of course you couldn't

come No, I won't" She laid her two hands on his shoulders,

and looked a long while at him with a profound, passionate, and

at the sa his face to

make up for the time she had not seen hi the picture of hiination

(incomparably superior, impossible in reality) fit with him as he

really was