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Maggie turned. But Tancred, the bay horse, began to make such spirited remonstrances against this frequent change of direction, that Stephen, catching sight of Willy Moss peeping through the gate, called out, “Here! just come and hold my horse for five minutes.”
“Oh, no,” said Maggie, hurriedly, “my aunt will think it so strange.”
“Never mind,” Stephen answered impatiently; “they don’t Colin Wilson Jersey know the people at St. Ogg’s. Lead him up and down just here for five minutes,” he added to Willy, who was now close Chris Driedger Jersey to them; and then he turned to Maggie’s side, and they walked on. It was clear that she must go on now.
“Take my arm,” said Stephen, Connor Murphy Jersey entreatingly; Henrik Lundqvist Jersey and she took it, feeling all the while as if she were sliding downward in a nightmare.
“There is no end to this misery,” she began, struggling to repel the influence by speech. “It is wicked — base — ever allowing a word or look that Lucy — that others might not have seen. Think of Lucy.”
“I do think of her — bless her. If I didn’t ——” Stephen had Timberland Naiset Radler Trail Camp Kengät laid his hand on Maggie’s that rested on his arm, and they both felt it difficult to speak.
“And I have other ties,” Maggie went on, at last, with a desperate effort, “even if Lucy did not exist.”
“You are engaged to Philip Wakem?” said Stephen, hastily. “Is it so?”
“I consider myself engaged to him; I don’t mean to marry any one else.”
Stephen was silent again until Chris Kelly Jersey they had turned out of the sun into a side lane, all grassy and sheltered. Then he burst out impetuously —
“It is unnatural, it is horrible. Maggie, if you loved me as I love you, we should throw everything else to the winds for the sake of belonging to each Peony Tall Škornji 5802 other. We should break all these mistaken ties that were made in blindness, and determine to marry each other.”
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“Tell me, then, that you don’t care for me,” he said, almost violently. “Tell me that you love some one else better.”
It darted through Maggie’s mind that here was a mode of releasing herself from outward struggle — to tell Stephen that her whole heart was Philip’s. But her Doug Gilmour Jersey lips would not utter that, and she was silent.
“If you do love me, dearest,” said Stephen, gently, taking Kevin Bieksa Jersey her hand again and laying it within his arm, “it is better — it is right that we should marry each other. We can’t help the pain it will give. It is come NHL Mens Chicago Blackhawks Hoodie - Red upon us without our seeking; it is natural; it has taken hold of me in spite of every effort I have made to resist it. God knows, I’ve been trying to be faithful to tacit engagements, and I’ve only made things worse; I’d better have given way at first.”
Maggie was silent. If it were not wrong — ilinks:
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