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It seemed as though the sympathetic interjection had been meant for some third person rather than herself! "Aurore," I continued, after a pause, "I have told you all. I have been candid. I only ask equal candour in return. Do you love me?" I should have put this question less calmly, but that I felt already half-assured of the answer. We were seated on the sofa, and near each other.
Such felicitous wording of subject-matter so objectionable: such an unassailable presentation of so indefensible a principle could hardly have been the fruit of premeditation. Cornelia was allowing things to take their course. "It isn't disagreeable! it's " Bressant broke off, unable or unprepared to say what it was. "Why must we forget it?" he added, with a half-assured look of significance.
Exhilaration no doubt was responsible for the very agreeable smile of recognition that she bestowed upon him. Or, perhaps it was inspired by womanly pity for the man whose loneliness was even greater and graver than her own. The Enemy could do no less than go to them with his pleasantest acknowledgment. His rugged face relaxed into a most charming, winsome smile, half-diffident, half-assured.
Previously to our mutual declaration, each felt half-assured, yet each felt a certain trembling anxiety to have assurance complete.
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