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The Octopus

CHAPTER IV
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But all this is so old, so old.

The world learned it a thousand years ago, and yet each man that has ever stood by the open grave of any one he loved must learn it all over again from the beginning." Vanamee was silent for a moment, looking off with unseeing eyes between the trunks of the pear trees, over the little valley.
"That may all be as you say," he answered after a while.

"I have not learned it yet, in any case.

Now, I only know that I love her--oh, as if it all were yesterday--and that I am suffering, suffering, always." He leaned forward, his head supported on his clenched fists, the infinite sadness of his face deepening like a shadow, the tears brimming in his deep-set eyes.

A question that he must ask, which involved the thing that was scarcely to be thought of, occurred to him at this moment.


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