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 "The thought made me a coward for the moment. And no man should be a coward whose ears have been blessed by the words which you have spoken, and the knowledge I have gained. Forgive the cowardice."

"I would I could as easily spare you the sorrow," she murmured.

"To do that now would be to rob my life of its one great happiness. Come what may for me, I shall never love again;" and with that assurance, which brought all the love in her heart in a rush of eloquent, speaking tenderness to her eyes, I left her, caring little indeed what might happen to me if our union were impossible.