[The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey]@TWC D-Link bookThe Call of the Canyon CHAPTER II 62/68
But you, like all women, make love and its expression the sole object of life.
Carley, I have been concerned with keeping my body from the grave and my soul from hell." "But--dear--you're well now ?" she returned, with trembling lips. "Yes, I've almost pulled out." "Then what is wrong ?" "Wrong ?--With me or you," he queried, with keen, enigmatical glance upon her. "What is wrong between us? There is something." "Carley, a man who has been on the verge--as I have been--seldom or never comes back to happiness.
But perhaps--" "You frighten me," cried Carley, and, rising, she sat upon the arm of his chair and encircled his neck with her arms.
"How can I help if I do not understand? Am I so miserably little ?...
Glenn, must I tell you? No woman can live without love.
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