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Love Eternal

CHAPTER XIV
19/28

They were: "Fulfil your fate.

Love and be loved with body and with spirit, with heart and soul and strength." At length she rose, and as she did so said aloud: "I do not know who or what I have to thank for life and all that makes me, me.

But I am glad to have been born, now, who have often wished that I had never been born.

Even if I knew that I must pass away to-night, I should still be glad, since I have learned that there is something in me which cannot die.

It came when that man kissed my hands, and it will endure for ever." Godfrey was late for dinner, very late, and what was worse, his father _had_ waited for him.
"I suppose you forgot that I dined at seven, not at eight," was his cold greeting, for Mr.Knight, a large eater like many teetotallers, was one of those people who make a fetish of punctuality at meals, and always grow cross when they are hungry.
Godfrey, whose mind had not been steadied by the events of the afternoon, became confused and replied that he was extremely sorry, but the fact was he had met Isobel and, in talking to her, had not noticed the time.
"Isobel!" exclaimed his father, whose voice was now icy.


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