[The Story of an African Farm by (AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner]@TWC D-Link bookThe Story of an African Farm CHAPTER 2 9/10
"You can forget all the world, but you cannot forget yourself.
When one thing is more to you than yourself, how are you to forget it? "I read," he said--"yes; and then I come to a word she used, and it is all back with me again! I go to count my sheep, and I see her face before me, and I stand and let the sheep run by.
I look at you, and in your smile, a something at the corner of your lips, I see her.
How can I forget her when, whenever I turn, she is there, and not there? I cannot, I will not, live where I do not see her. "I know what you think," he said, turning upon her.
"You think I am mad; you think I am going to see whether she will not like me! I am not so foolish.
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