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A certain sense of pride and triumph filled him, to realise that he had been selected from many applicants for the post he occupied and yet with all his satisfaction there went a lurking spirit of envy and disappointed ambition. If he could win Morgana's love if he could make the strange elfin creature with all her genius and inventive ability his own, why then! what then?
Manella drew a quick soft breath. "All the world, surely!" she answered, with emotion "To love! to possess the one we love, body and soul! and to mother a life born of such love! THAT must be heaven!" The smile flitted away from Morgana's lips, and her expression became almost sorrowful. "You are like a trusting animal!" she said "An animal all innocent of guns and steel-traps! You poor girl!
Some reflection of this feeling showed itself in the expression of Morgana's face while she hesitated to answer, holding the girl's hand in her own and stroking it affectionately the while. Manella, gazing at her as a worshipper might gaze at a sacred picture, instinctively divined her thought. "Ah?
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