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Their love never for a irl as prireat gaether, this tre to solve--the vastest and most vital problem that ever yet had confronted the hu creatures

And as Beatrice recalled the world of other times, with all its false conventions, liallantries, she shuddered with repulsion In her heart she knew that, had the choice been hers, she would not have gone back to that fore and totalher present state with her past one, and co-haired as he was, yet a true man in every inch of his lithe, virile body--with others she re in her a love so deep and powerful, grounded on such broad bases of respect and gratitude, mutual interest and latent passion, that she herself could not yet understand it in all its phases and its rown up between thes, partook of a fine tolerance, an exquisite and never-failing tenderness, a wealth of all intimate, yet respectful adoration It held elements of brotherhood and parenthood; it was the love of coworkers striving toward a co, doing, acco; for still the co daily and hourly a love such as never since the world began had been equaled in purity and power, faith, hope, integrity It purified all things, s; it was long-suffering and very kind

They had no need to speak of it; it showed in every word and look and act, even in the humblest and most commonplace of services each for each Their love was lived, not talked about

All their trials and tremendous hardships, their narrow passes with death, and their hard-won escapes, the vicissitudes of a savage life in the open, with every iinable difficulty and hard expedient, could not destroy their illusions or do aught than bind them in closer bonds of unity

And each realized when the time should ripen for another and a more vital love, that, too, would circle the thenant bonds of joy