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St. Ives

CHAPTER XXVI--THE COTTAGE AT NIGHT
19/26

For these spells are double-edged.

The silly birds may be charmed with the pipe of the fowler, which is but a tube of reeds.

Not so with a bird of our own feather! As I went on, and my resolve strengthened, and my voice found new modulations, and our faces were drawn closer to the bars and to each other, not only she, but I, succumbed to the fascination, and were kindled by the charm.

We make love, and thereby ourselves fall the deeper in it.

It is with the heart only that one captures a heart.
'And now,' I continued, 'I will tell you what you can still do for me.


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