5/12 It exalts and vitalizes me more than I can tell you. I wish it had been the autumn now." "I don't," he said. "I much prefer the summer and peace. I want to take away all that desire for fierce things, dearest--they were the echoes of those dark thoughts and shadows which used to be in your eyes at Carlsbad." "Ah, if you could!" she sighed. "It is the only thing I really want in life--to make you happy." "How good you are, Henry!" she cried; "so noble and unselfish and true; you frighten me. |