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“What a dear, good brother you would have been, Philip,” said Maggie, smiling through the haze of tears. “I think you would have made as much fuss about me, and been as pleased for me to love you, as would have satisfied even me. You would have loved me well enough to bear with me, and forgive me everything. That was what I always longed that Tom should do. I was never satisfied with a little of anything. That is why it is better for me to do without earthly happiness altogether. I never felt that I had enough music — I wanted more instruments playing together; I wanted voices to be fuller and deeper. Do you ever sing Dennis Cholowski Jersey now, Philip?” she added abruptly, as if she had forgotten what went before.
“Yes,” he said, “every day, almost. But my voice is only middling, like everything else in me.”
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“I know,” said Philip; and Maggie buried her face in her hands while he sang sotto voce, “Love in her eyes sits playing,” and then said, “That’s it, isn’t it?”
“Oh no, I won’t stay,” said Maggie, starting up. “It will only haunt me. Let us walk, Philip. I must go home.”
She moved away, so that he was obliged to rise and follow her.
“Maggie,” he said, in a tone of remonstrance, “don’t persist in this wilful, senseless privation. It makes me wretched to see you benumbing and cramping your nature in this way. You were so full of life when you were a child; I thought you would be a brilliant woman — all wit and bright imagination. And it flashes out in your face still, until you draw that veil of dull quiescence over it.”
“Why do you speak so bitterly to me, Philip?” said Maggie.
“Because I foresee it will not end well; you can never carry on this self-torture.”
“I shall have strength given me,” said Maggie, tremulously.
“No, you will not, Maggie; no one has strength given to do what is unnatural. It is mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way. You will be thrown into the world some day, and then every rational Gerry Cheevers Jersey satisfaction of your Ugg Slippers nature that you deny now will assault you like a savage appetite.”
Maggie started and paused, looking Luca Sbisa Jersey at Philip with alarm in her face.
“Philip, how dare you shake me in this way? You are a tempter.”
“No, I am Artemi Panarin Jersey not; but love gives insight, Maggie, and insight often gives foreboding. Listen to me — let me supply you with books; do let me see you sometimes — be your brother and teacher, as you said at Lorton. Jean-Francois Berube Jersey It is less wrong that you should see me than that you should be committing this long suicide.”
Maggie felt unable to speak. She shook her head and walked on in silence, till they came to the end of the Scotch firslinks:
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