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1 " Bruce lamented the fact that she had not arrived sooner, when they had really needed her. “I came as soon as I had your letter,” she said. “And I think I was able to do something to cheer the children.” “It is a miracle they did not take a chill from being taken out so soon after their illness, though,” Bruce said.  “They did not,” Alice said briskly, “so you must not provoke yourself, Bruce.” “I do not know how I am to entertain Mary now that you are going, I am sure, Alice,” Phoebe said. “She has a nurse,” Alice said. “And Jarvis is remarkably goodnatured. I am sure he will agree to take her into the "

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2 " Life could never offer what she most dreamed of. "

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3 " She wanted it to last forever. She wanted him in her. She wanted release. She could not endure much longer without release. But not yet. Not yet. She wanted the wanting him to go on forever. She did not want thought or sanity or the cold and cruel world to come back. She wanted this to go on forever. "

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4 " She did not want it. She did not want all this again. How she wished he had not come. "

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5 " For she was being enticed again by a very old dream, one so old that she had thought it quite incapable of being revived. She had thought it could never bring her pain again. "

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6 " And the need to dissemble after all these years of doing so just seemed too much of an effort now. "

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7 " A man in love has been known to do worse things, I suppose. "

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8 " She must never look into his eyes, her own unmasked, and say, "Choose me, Piers. Choose me! "

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9 " But he had not been able to go to her. That was no longer an option in his life. "

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10 " A friendship that was agony to continue but that would be a living death to lose. "

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11 " It is just that I have always been determined, you see, to marry someone I loved. "

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12 " At the age of fifteen she had begun to train herself to cultivate a friendship where she had longed to entice love. For fourteen years she had held that love only in the deepest, most secret recesses of her being and been his friend with the rest of herself. He had never known. "

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13 " For there is no guilt in harboring a forbidden love. "

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14 " I care to marry only a gentleman who loves me. "

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15 " Love me," she whispered. "Go on loving me, Piers. Don't stop."

Never, he promised her with his eyes. "

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16 " He would be the very last person she would want to see during the rest of her lifetime. "

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17 " She wanted his very soul, it seemed. Well, she would have it. He had no more use for it himself. "

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18 " He would never stop loving her. Never. "

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19 " You never did collapse. Only your eyes showed what was going on inside. "

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20 " Without even realizing it, he had come running to her. "

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