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A Pair of Blue Eyes

CHAPTER VII
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And I'll not ask you ever any more--never more--to say out of the deep reality of your heart what you loved me for.' 'Sweet tantalizer, what's the use?
It comes to this sole simple thing: That at one time I had never seen you, and I didn't love you; that then I saw you, and I did love you.

Is that enough ?' 'Yes; I will make it do....I know, I think, what I love you for.

You are nice-looking, of course; but I didn't mean for that.

It is because you are so docile and gentle.' 'Those are not quite the correct qualities for a man to be loved for,' said Stephen, in rather a dissatisfied tone of self-criticism.

'Well, never mind.


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