This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...of love when the grim forces of the body are at war! ' You will let me do everything I can?' ' I will let you '--he yielded to a momentary shudder--' have your own way in all things.' ' Then I am content, ' she murmured, 'for my way will be your way.' 'Are you sure of that?' he tried to ask lightly. ' ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...of love when the grim forces of the body are at war! ' You will let me do everything I can?' ' I will let you '--he yielded to a momentary shudder--' have your own way in all things.' ' Then I am content, ' she murmured, 'for my way will be your way.' 'Are you sure of that?' he tried to ask lightly. ' That's still another Folly.' ' There have been so many Follies from the beginning, ' she answered soberly. ' But I think this Folly is a stranger to them all; and I am sure she is yours--at your will ' She laid her head upon his shoulder, and both were outwardly quiet; but he was wondering, with a kind of wild impatience, how he could bring endearments to lips that were stiffened with pain, or caress her when his whole body shrank into one great longing for quiescence; and she was thinking that the flaw must be in herself that prevented their perfect understanding--the continuance of that exquisite joy that had lasted but a moment, when she first came to him.... He stirred involuntarily, and a faint groan escaped him. She sprang to her feet with a tender little cry: ' Ah, you are exhausted, and I am keeping you up! You must go to bed. And to-morrow ' ' Yes, to-morrow, ' was all he could say. ' You will be better to-morrow.' ' I shall be all right. And we can talk again. We shall have all the time now.' ' Perhaps I have been troubling you?' There was a real question under her feigned laugh. Troubling him? His only thought was how to be rid of her quickly, and sink under the burden that he could not bear longer without sign. Her wistful ' Good-night, then, ' was a...
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