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Life and Gabriella

CHAPTER IX
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When I came on you suddenly, standing there in the dusk with your hands full of lilacs, it all came back to me because you, looked like her, with your dark hair and your tall slenderness.

Then before I knew what I was, doing I called you by her name.

I oughtn't to have done it," he finished ecstatically, "but I'm jolly glad now that I did." So he also, the man of action and of enterprise, he, the worker and the adventurer, so he also cultivated his garden of dreams! "I didn't know--I didn't know--" she found herself murmuring faintly in protest.
"But you know now!" His voice rang out exultantly, and, though she felt that the thing she feared and dreaded was coming upon her, she still stood there without moving a step, without lifting a hand, mesmerized, enchanted, by the force of the man.

"You know now," he repeated.

"You know now, Gabriella, and you knew all along." It was true.


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