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She came over to him and put her hand on his shoulder, looking down at him with strange golden-lighted eyes, very tender, but with a curious devilish look lurking underneath. 'Say you love me, say "my love" to me, she pleaded He looked back into her eyes, and saw. His face flickered with sardonic comprehension. 'I love you right enough, he said, grimly. 'But I want it to be something else.
Her own understanding of his need had been a blinding, whirling revelation. He had said, "I wanted some one who cared ." Not for a moment since then had the world been real to her. She had seemed in the center of a golden-lighted sphere, where Derry's voice spoke to her, where Derry's smile warmed her, where Derry, a silver-crested knight, knelt at her feet.
I wandered hour after hour, sometimes imagining that I was flying from the life I loathed, again that somewhere in those cool, green, golden-lighted mazes I should find my lost youth, and her. For, how could I think of it without thinking of her also? It had been lighted by her; it had gone with her; it lived in memory, illumined by her. The beautiful, beautiful world-that-ought-to-be!
"I've only seen him about twice, but I believe I hated him before I saw him.... All right, Durward, that's what I wanted to know. Thank you. Good-night." And before I could speak he had gripped my hand, had turned back, and was walking swiftly away, across the golden-lighted quay.
Another man was strolling toward them across the golden-lighted pasture field. It was John Cross, Jake Sawyer's partner, called Spectacle John, to distinguish him from a half dozen other John Crosses who didn't wear spectacles. At sight of him Uncle Hughie sniffed, and ejaculated "Huts!"
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