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Her words are the answering echo to my own secret thought. Like myself she is groping for light and counsel. May not the cleverest man and woman fitly quail before the soul-hunger of eager adolescent youth? And I do not profess to be clever. "What were you like as a young woman?" "I was afraid you would make that answer," she murmurs, reproachfully. "Oh, I have forgotten!"
Aileen would never have followed the clue so vigorously had it not been for the look she had seen Cowperwood fix on the girl in the Park and in the restaurant an air of soul-hunger which could not be gainsaid. Let no one ridicule the terrors of unrequited love. Its tentacles are cancerous, its grip is of icy death.
When you're absent from her you can do nothing but think of her, gloating with throes of aromatic pain over the memory of your last meeting with her, longing with soul-hunger for your next. The merest flutter of her gown, modulation of her voice, glance of her eye, will throw your heart into a palpitation.
No graceful but galling attitude of superiority, no polite indifference to her soul-hunger, no disposition to criticise. And yet he was no less voluble, clever, and spirited than Mrs. Taylor. She listened with wrapt interest to his easy talk, which was ever grave in tone, despite his pleasant sallies.
It'll be something to think of always to make me happy.... Only I'd like to feel you you cared a little." The wistful smile was there, a tremor on the sad lips, and a shadow of soul-hunger in her eyes. Shefford did not misunderstand her. She did not mean love, although it was a yearning for real love that she mutely expressed. "Care! I shall care all my life," he said, with strong feeling.
There was no doubt a conscious void within him never yet filled, and some instinctive inner voice whispered that he might there find food for his soul-hunger a satisfying something after which he had all his life been unconsciously and blindly groping.
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