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And presently she stretched out her hand with a quick, piteous gesture, and touched his face. "You, too! What have I done to you? How you looked, just now! I bring a curse. Why did you want to marry me? I can't tear this out of my heart I can't!" And again she hid herself from him. Delafield bent over her. "Do you imagine that I should be poor-souled enough to ask you?"
And don't you begrudge me all the little amusements which turn the tradesman into the man and sweeten the pill of bondage eh, you poor-souled thing? Her eyes, however, drew his after them, whether he would or no, and they surveyed each other he uneasily hostile; she sad. She slowly shook her head, and he perfectly understood what was in her mind, though she did not speak.
I am not satisfied to be a poor-souled dilettante in poetry, though assured I can. never be a Virgil or a Voltaire. I know that the study of poetry demands the life, the undivided heart and mind. I am but a poor galley-slave, chained to the ship of state; or, if you will, a pilot, who does not dare to leave the rudder, or even to sleep, lest the fate of the unhappy Palinurus might overtake him.
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