[The Story of an African Farm by (AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner]@TWC D-Link bookThe Story of an African Farm CHAPTER 2 6/22
She raised her eyes to his face. "If you do love me," he asked her, "why will you not marry me ?" "Because, if I had been married to you for a year I should have come to my senses and seen that your hands and your voice are like the hands and the voice of any other man.
I cannot quite see that now.
But it is all madness.
You call into activity one part of my nature; there is a higher part that you know nothing of, that you never touch.
If I married you, afterward it would arise and assert itself, and I should hate you always, as I do now sometimes." "I like you when you grow metaphysical and analytical," he said, leaning his face upon his hand.
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