[The Dark Forest by Hugh Walpole]@TWC D-Link bookThe Dark Forest CHAPTER III 34/57
It might have happened to any one." "I would have prevented it," he said, nodding his head gravely. He was silent for a little; then with a sudden jerk he said: "Where has she gone ?" "Gone ?" I repeated stupidly after him. "Yes--that's not death--to go like that.
She must be somewhere still--somewhere in this beastly forest.
What--afterwards--when you saw her--what? ...
her face ?..." "She looked very peaceful--quite happy." "No restlessness in her face? No anxiety ?" "None." "But all that life--that energy.
It can't have stopped.
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