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The Voyage Out

CHAPTER XVII
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Again when they met their meeting might be one of inspiriting joy or of harassing despair.

Over all their partings hung the sense of interruption, leaving them both unsatisfied, though ignorant that the other shared the feeling.
If Rachel was ignorant of her own feelings, she was even more completely ignorant of his.

At first he moved as a god; as she came to know him better he was still the centre of light, but combined with this beauty a wonderful power of making her daring and confident of herself.

She was conscious of emotions and powers which she had never suspected in herself, and of a depth in the world hitherto unknown.

When she thought of their relationship she saw rather than reasoned, representing her view of what Terence felt by a picture of him drawn across the room to stand by her side.


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