Out of the Past — page 134: what you’re looking at

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Out of the Past. 131 me to find myself in loving you? For very pride, if for nothing else, | must give the world something in return. But there is one regret—I fear you have smothered your talent in marrying me.” “But I have other, weightier concerns.” ‘“Weightier? Ask yourself a little deeper. Do you not regret it?” Her eyes opened wide. MNOt at bit. “Are you sure?” “Quite. You see, I would rather love you.” “You take me at an unfair advantage. I feel the eyes of the sea and the gulls. You positively must not say such things unless we are alone.” “Must ?” “Yes.” ‘How serious you are. I would like to play exceed- ingly well, but you do it for me. Often when you are at work an ideal of what you are playing grows in my mind, and then in an hour, a week or a month you re- produce that ideal, living, palpitating, with something of yourself running through it like shafts of light. Ah, that is playing! Do you think I would give that up for any- thing I could do with a violin?” COMME DOC Sri