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"It would not do him any good, and would spoil his taste for what he could get. How long has it been going on, Sue?" "He's been acting foolish for a month, but it gets worse all the time. He moons around the house, with his head in the clouds, and sits up half the night hanging out of his window. He has raked out all those silly old poetry-books of yours, and I find them strewn all over the house.
How had she come to know about poetry-books? He wanted to know more about this miracle of Nature this wild rose blooming on a bare mountain-side! There was one of Mary Burke's remarks upon which Hal soon got light her statement that North Valley was a place of fear.
But he had really gone farther than that he had had a definite sentimental impulse; and he had been a cad he should have known all along that all this girl's discontent, all the longing of her starved soul, would become centred upon him, who was so "different," who had had opportunity, who made her think of the "poetry-books"!
It seemed like a huge boulder, leaping down a precipice; and Thyrsis stood at a safe distance and watched it. According to the poetry-books he should have been ashamed perhaps moved to tears by the reproachful look in the great creature's eyes. But assuredly the makers of the poetry-books had never needed the price of a railroad-ticket as badly as Thyrsis did!
He had none knew this better than I but they were the notions of other men. "Look at it as a matter of business between men of the world," I returned. "Five pounds will buy you any number of poetry-books. Business is business, and you may be sure I shouldn't give that price unless" "Oh, if you put it that way," said Charlie, visibly moved by the thought of the books.
I don't know how to say it, but ye make me think more of the poetry-books." Flattered as Hal was by this naive confession, he did not want to talk of the mystery of himself. He took refuge in a question about the "poetry-books." "I've read some," said the girl; "more than ye'd have thought, perhaps." This with a flash of her defiance.
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