Out of the Past — page 128: what you’re looking at

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Out of the Past. 125 next he should look. “All that is not so much. The 93 trouble is—the trouble is “You do not know who you are.” “Yes—how did you know ?” “T cannot tell. It is like the carriage.” “It has tortured me all my life. But it was never quite so bad as it is now before the woman [I love.” Rose turned a face of loveliest shy sympathy. ‘Do you not despise me?” “You will never know how little cause I could have for that,” she replied, speaking with difficulty. “Could you marry a man such as I am?” “T couldn’t say I wouldn't,” she admitted, backing away from him. “But would you?” “T wouldn’t if I couldn’t.” “Rose!” OIE i “Will you marry me?” She tossed back her head and stooped to gather up her skirt in one hand. “Catch me!” she cried, and was off like an arrow down the sands toward the distant house. For an instant he stood abashed, perplexed. But her flying figure and the laugh she tossed back at him gave ECONNICLOOOKS»€©