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At the touch and the word of womanly sympathy I forgot all, and the love-madness came again to blot out the very present memory of how she had brought me to this. "Ah, that is better better," I sighed, when the pounding hammers in my temples gave me some surcease of the agony. "Then you forgive me?" she asked, whether jestingly or in earnest I could not tell.
Yet, though he felt this presentiment like a creeping shudder of cold through his blood, it did not hold him back, or for a moment impress him with the idea that it might be better to yield no further to this desperate love-madness which enthralled him. Once only, he thought, "What if I left Egypt now at once and saw her no more?" And then he laughed scornfully at the impossibility proposed.
Then she took her lover down from the tree and made him sit up, though he was dead, and adorned him with perfumes and jewels and flowers. But when in her love-madness she lifted his face and kissed him, a goblin who had come to live in her dead lover, bit off her nose. And she was startled and ran in pain from the spot. But then she came back to see if perhaps he was alive after all.
He had the "Love-sonnets from the Portuguese" in mind as he wrote, and he wrote under the best conditions for great work, at a climacteric of living, in the throes of his own sweet love-madness.
By such varied activities had Carteret systematically essayed to rid himself of his somewhat exquisite distemper, and, when coming to Deadham, honestly believed himself immune, sane and safe. He was proportionately disturbed by finding the cure of this autumn love-madness less complete than, fool-like, he had supposed.
'Yes, mother, I said, 'it is my charge; and taking up the cross I wrapped it in my handkerchief. 'Take the amulet and guard it well, she said, as I placed it carefully in the breast pocket of my coat. 'And remember, said my aunt, breaking into the conversation, 'that the true curses of the Aylwins are and always have been superstition and love-madness.
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