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The Turmoil

CHAPTER XXV
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It may be said, in truth, that while they were together, and it was light, she looked at him all the time.
When he came to the end of Alladine and Palomides they were silent a little while, considering together; then he turned back the pages and said: "There's something I want to read over.

This:" You would think I threw a window open on the dawn....

She has a soul that can be seen around her--that takes you in its arms like an ailing child and without saying anything to you consoles you for everything....

I shall never understand it all.

I do not know how it can all be, but my knees bend in spite of me when I speak of it....
He stopped and looked at her.
"You boy!" said Mary, not very clearly.
"Oh yes," he returned.


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