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The Voyage Out

CHAPTER XI
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"Their lives are now changed for ever." "And it makes one sorry for them too," Rachel continued, as though she were tracing the course of her feelings.

"I don't know either of them, but I could almost burst into tears.

That's silly, isn't it ?" "Just because they're in love," said Hewet.

"Yes," he added after a moment's consideration, "there's something horribly pathetic about it, I agree." And now, as they had walked some way from the grove of trees, and had come to a rounded hollow very tempting to the back, they proceeded to sit down, and the impression of the lovers lost some of its force, though a certain intensity of vision, which was probably the result of the sight, remained with them.

As a day upon which any emotion has been repressed is different from other days, so this day was now different, merely because they had seen other people at a crisis of their lives.
"A great encampment of tents they might be," said Hewet, looking in front of him at the mountains.


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