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Finally, despite Desiree's energetic protests, I rose to my knees and insisted that she rest herself. We seemed none of us to be scarcely aware of what we were doing; our movements had a curious purposelessness about them that gave the thing an appearance of unreality I know not what; it comes to my memory as some indistinct and haunting nightmare.
Nae!" said the young man hurriedly, "it's no' thiss. That is, it's no' mine noo." "Won't you come in?" suggested the consul politely, holding open the door. The young man entered the room with the quick strides but the mechanical purposelessness of embarrassment. Then he stiffened and stood erect.
There was no drooping hopelessness in her attitude toward the world. And if beneath the surface there lay hidden the dangerous flaw of purposelessness, no one knew at least, so she believed. To her surprise, Travers made no mention of the subject she dreaded. He took her hand in his, and led her into the shady drawing-room. She made no attempt to protest, nor did she offer him any formal greeting.
The type of that which is greater, more valuable than glory, more useful than fame, more noble than the blood of countesses and duchesses honest labor!" Bertha's responsive look spoke her approval. "And what do I not owe her, myself?" continued M. de Bois. "It was her words, long before her sorrows began, which rendered me conscious of the inert purposelessness of my own existence.
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