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The convalescent is receptive and undesiring, or but very faintly desiring: the new blood coming into the frame like first dawn of light has not stirred the old passions; it is infant nature, with a tinge of superadded knowledge that is not cloud across it and lends it only a tender wistfulness.
It did not require the measured sounds of human language to syllable the story of my extasy. Idris had visited me; Idris I should again and again see my imagination did not wander beyond the completeness of this knowledge. I trod air; no doubt, no fear, no hope even, disturbed me; I clasped with my soul the fulness of contentment, satisfied, undesiring, beatified.
The convalescent is receptive and undesiring, or but very faintly desiring: the new blood coming into the frame like first dawn of light has not stirred the old passions; it is infant nature, with a tinge of superadded knowledge that is not cloud across it and lends it only a tender wistfulness.
"The Prince's watch-dog," Lucille murmured. "Hateful woman! She is bound hand and foot to him, and yet " Her eyes met his, and he laughed. "Really," he said, "you and I in our old age might be hero and heroine of a little romance the undesiring objects of a hopeless affection!" Lady Carey sank into a low chair by their side.
In the beginning he had only thought to enthrone her as an ideal, lovely, remote, unaspired to. She would be a star fixed in his sky, object of his undesiring worship. But it had not been that way. The star had not changed but he had ceased to bow in contemplation looked up, loved and longed. The back wall of his dwelling rose above the trees and he saw the darkling panes of his own windows.
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