[The Hand But Not the Heart by T. S. Arthur]@TWC D-Link bookThe Hand But Not the Heart CHAPTER I 2/15
How is it that your evenly balanced mind has suffered a disturbance.
There must be something wrong within.
You know my theory--that all disturbing causes are in the heart." "I am not much interested in mental theories to-night--am in no philosophic mood.
I feel too deeply for analysis." "On what subject, Paul ?" A little while the young man sat with his eyes upon the floor; then lifting them to the face of Mrs.Denison, he replied. "You are not ignorant of the fact that Jessie Loring has interested me more than any maiden I have yet seen ?" "I am not, for you have already confided to me your secret." "The first time I met her, it seemed to me as if I had come into the presence of one whose spirit claimed some hidden affinities with my own.
I have never felt so strangely in the presence of a woman as I have felt and always feel in the presence of Miss Loring." "She has a spirit of finer mould than most women," said Mrs. Denison.
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