I shall
always call your hair 'dark as the night of disunion and
separation'--isn't that what the oriental poet called it?--and your
face, to me, always, always, always, will be 'fair as the days of
union and delight.' No you've not changed. You're still just a
tall flower, in the blades of grass--that are cut down. But
wasted! What is in my mind now, when maybe it ought not to be
here, is just this: What couldn't you and I have done together?
Ah! Nothing could have stopped us!"
"What could we not have done?" she repeated slowly. "I've done so
little--in the world--alone."
Something in her tone caught his ear, his senses, overstrung,
vibrating in exquisite susceptibility, capable almost of hearing
thought that dared not be thought. He turned his blackened face,
bent toward her, looking into her face with an intensity which
almost annihilated the human limitations of flesh and blood. It
was as though his soul heard something in hers, and turned to
answer it, to demand its repetition.
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