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The Short Works of George Meredith

CHAPTER IV
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Such a smile bids us guess and quickens us to guess, warns us we burn and speeds our burning, and so, like an angel wafting us to some heaven-feasting promontory, lifts us out of ourselves to see in the universe of colour what the mouth has but pallid speech to tell.

That is the very heart's language; the years are in a look, as mount and vale of the dark land spring up in lightning.
He checked himself: he scarce dared to say it.
She nodded.
'You have seen the man, Chloe ?' Her smiling broke up in the hard lines of an ecstasy neighbouring pain.
'He has come; he is here; he is faithful; he has not forgotten me.

I was right.

I knew! I knew!' 'Caseldy has come ?' 'He has come.

Do not ask.


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