Chapter 8
ke an interminable time over everything.
As soon as , o t back. No; ture. It s of life as ty t marred t, appeared at t t tever it indifferent to results? Did it merely take cognizance of some day aking place before .
Poor Sibyl! a romance it en mimicked deatage. toucaken dreadful last scene? to oned for everyt t s at tre. of ragic figure sent on to tage to sy of love. A ragic figure? tears came to remulous grace. ily and looked again at ture.
t time for e curiosity about life. Eternal youte passion, pleasures subtle and secret, o bear t was all.
A feeling of pain crept over of tion t ore for to kiss, ted lips t no er morning before trait its beauty, almost enamoured of it, as it seemed to times. as it to alter noo o become a monstrous and loato be o be s out from t t en touco brigs y of it! ty of it!
For a moment, of praying t t existed bet mig, life, astic t c be, or fateful consequences it mig? Besides, really under rol? indeed been prayer t itution? Mig be some curious scientific reason for it all? If t could exercise its influence upon a living organism, mig t exercise an influence upon dead and inorganic t t or conscious desire, mig ternal to ourselves vibrate in unison om calling to atom in secret love or strange affinity? But tance. empt by a prayer any terrible poure o alter, it o alter. t o it?
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