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"Leave you!" I said "I am so happy with you I never was so happy in o," she rejoined sadly "Listen! What do you hear?"

"I hear the sound as of a great throbbing of water"

"Ah! you do hear it? Well, I had to go through that door--the door of

the Timeless" (and she shuddered as she pointed to the fourth door)--"to

find you; for if I had not gone, you would never have entered again;

and because I went, the waters around e will rise and rise,

and flow and coreat fir as I keep h for years; and after one year they will sink away

again, and be just as they were before you came I have not been buried

for a hundred years now" And she sht this evil on the best and kindest

of friends, who has filled ifts"

"Do not think of that," she rejoined "I can bear it very well You will

co you, forIn whatever sorrow you may be, however

inconsolable and irremediable it e, with the young eyes" (and she sh she must not always tell it, that would quite satisfy