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Why do you look at me so strangely?
Are you afraid to take me for yourself?
Do you think I do not know what I am saying?
Do you not understand what the terror of these days without you has done to me?
The inclination which lacked only courage lacks it no longer.

I know what you have been, what you are.

I ask nothing more of life than you." "Dear," he said, "do you understand that I can never marry you ?" "Yes," she said steadily.

"I am not afraid." In the silence the wooden shutter outside the window swung to with a slam in the rising breeze which had become a wind blowing fitfully under a wet gray sky.