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Robin

CHAPTER XV
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Dr.Redcliff said I might go.

Mrs.Bennett is there.

She loves me." "Are you going to talk to Mrs.Bennett ?" "No! No! No! No! Not to any one in the world." Hapless young creatures in her plight must always be touching, but her touchingness was indescribable--almost unendurable to the ripe aged woman of the world who watched and heard her.

It was as if she knew nothing of the meaning of things--as if some little spirit had been torn from heaven and flung down upon the dark earth.

One felt that one must weep aloud over the exquisite incomprehensible remoteness of her.


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