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 face, and though it struck him like a chill to see how pale she looked, he said nothing of it, but drew her close to him once more. “Then you don’t believe what he said?” “T know the man was lying, and that he is 7 half mad.” “But if it were true?” 4 “T should still remember that I love you, and ~ that I believe you love me.” : “With all my heart. Perseus, you can never q know how much I love you.” “Have I not had proof?” a “All that might have been with a purpose. — Abandoned as I was, desperate, I didn’t care © what happened. You seemed a way out—and — a gratification. Luck wasn’t so bad after all. — But that was only at first, while my heart was ~ still full of bitterness and hatred. I was suf- — fering horribly; I think I was the loneliest thing in the world just then. Have you ever been very reckless, have you ever felt that you — didn’t care a scrap for the world or the world’s — opinion? Can you imagine what it is to feel — that the whole world is shut tight against you, — bolted, barred and double-padlocked—that you — are alone, so dreadfully alone that there seems — 296 4