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The Inheritors

CHAPTER FOURTEEN
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I believe you do, and I want you." I continued to pace up and down.

The noises of returning day grew loud; frightfully loud.

It was as if I must hasten, must get said what I had to say, as if I must raise my voice to make it heard amid the clamour of a world awakening to life.
"I believe you do ...

I believe you do...." I said again and again, "and I want you." My voice rose higher and higher.

She stood motionless, an inscrutable white figure, like some silent Greek statue, a harmony of falling folds of heavy drapery perfectly motionless.
"I want you," I said--"I want you, I want you, I want you." It was unbearable to myself.
"Oh, be quiet," she said at last.


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