Sacrifice

on when Lilla emer

paintings hung against wooden panels. Between half-drawn window curtains passed rays of sunshine that came to rest upon vases of flowers arranged

ere her paleness was emphasized, and her eyes, with faint purple streaks below them, took on a look of dee

has ha

aged to

d temperamentally we belong to different worlds. You couldn't rest in mine, and I couldn't enter yours. If you knew me," she added, in a hushed voice, "you'd find

e. How easy it w

ion of white-hot metal, both knowing that their lips, though they

ntal or of fatal events, one longing groping through space toward another longing. Apart, just by aid of their imaginations, they had progressed already from indefinite to precise emotions, from vague to fixed visions, each attaining in thought a consummation that mocked this present struggle. A

s away, she made a

ed. "It's only by doing s

r beauty hideous, your nature repulsive? Come and take a drive w

hed, closing he

steps to his car. The high, gray walls of the house disappeared behind

oek stared at the distant gatewa

llage abruptly spread out its roofs, which rotated on the axis of a spire. All the windows gave back the light of late afternoon; and far off,

vered the

s perfected feeling, this verifica

u shall even move and speak," he predicted, "and I'll make your glances and your words whatever I want them to be. Look out for yourself! That is sorcery. I shall have taken a part of you away from yo

rr of triumph. He pursued his fancy, while the car pursued the glimmer o

ving self would sit at his side, radiant in the dress that she had worn last night. "Real as you'll seem to me," he said, "I sha'n't have to worry about the striped mosquitoes stinging you on the shoulders; and when we others go plodding along, no helmet or terai need hide that hair of yours. Since you'll be made of my thoughts,

rched on a cliff above the waters of the Sound. An old waiter led them between empty tables to a v

e for tea or

ractical face away. Wait, you might bring us some tea." He reached across

turned, almo

ld waiter came and departed like a shade. They were alone on the veranda

he angles of his face, at which she looked with a sensation of

time t

fill my mind with those tones; and when I'm alone I

gration. And the rustling of the vines, together with the murmur of the water, expanded into a sigh which seemed to issue from the multitude of lovers who somewhere-everywhere-at that moment, were swaying toward the irresistible embrace; and fr

aled to him-her eyes humid, her lips twisted into an unprecedented shape, her whole aspect, in its startling m

there at last-or, as it seemed to them, again-he took her in his arms. For an instant her averted face imitated the

y arabesque that the vines were tracing in silhouette against the moonlit sea; but she could not see

r wedding

his horn-rimmed spectacles, stood before a mantelpiece on which a b

he minister's wife, and Lawre