Sealed Lips — page 299: what you’re looking at

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SEALED LIPS. 291 heart, and show you these words which have bled in me for three years like wounds. Ah! if you could know how I love you, how I have suffered, how I have struggled.” “And I, too!” She accompanied these two words with a light pressure of her hand upon the young man’s shoulder, who was still kneeling. “IT was a hundred times the unhappier,” said O’ Farrell. “No, for you knew that I loved you.” He arose. For a moment the thought of the past made an unhappy expression pass over his face. “You were not like what I was, lost in solitude, overcome with discouragement. You did not hear in the night voices that turned your devotion into derision, as well as the fidelity of a vow, or all that was good or true in a man’s heart. You did not curse, as I have more than once, others and your- self, for the troublesome severity of certain scruples or the egotism of certain lovers!” She placed her hands over his mouth. “Curse nobody. I admire you, I love you, and I approve of you; is that not enough? Oh! Patrice, you might have had me sooner, but would you have had me so surely? I swear to you, no! If I could show you all that you have gained by this long © waiting, you would bless instead of cursing it. With the same love, my heart brings you all that it contains of esteem, confidence, and respect. Take GoOmichboo KS (E(@)