[A Life’s Morning by George Gissing]@TWC D-Link bookA Life’s Morning CHAPTER XII 20/24
You will find it hard to understand me, for you seem not to know the meaning of such words.' She closed with stern bitterness, compelled to it by the tone of his last bidding.
A glorious beauty flashed in her face.
Alas, Wilfrid Athel would never know the pride of seeing thus the woman he knew so noble. But Wilfrid was in her heart; his soul allied itself with hers and gave her double strength.
Dagworthy had wrought for her that which in the night's conflict she could not bring about by her own force; knowing, in the face of utter despair, the whole depth of the love with which she held to her father, she could yet speak his doom with calmness, with clear intelligence that the sacrifice she was asked to make was disproportionate to the disaster threatened. He answered with cold decision. 'It's you who don't know me.
I've nothing more to say to you; you are at liberty to go.
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