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The desert did not look so romantic by the garish light of midday, but she stared out over it and saw, as with eyes newly opened to appreciation, that there was a certain charm even in its garishness. She had lost a good deal of moodiness and a good deal of discontent, somewhere along the moonlight trail of last night, and she hummed a tune while she waited.
But as there were limits to the value of light and "finding" limits which had been far exceeded, with the result of an unnatural forcing of the lights, and an effect of garishness and unreality so there were limits to the as yet unrecognised preciousness of "losing" and obscurity; these limits he placed at the objectivity of our Lord's Resurrection and Ascension.
Harriet was looking up at the priest, whom she saw as the friend of the man she loved. "And you will come back and marry us yourself, won't you?" she asked. He was looking down at her. Even after the long night, in the cold light of a winter dawn, and in the garishness of an evening gown in daylight, she was triumphantly beautiful.
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