Out of the Past — page 149: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER X. When they had gone, Rose went to her room, ex- changed her dress for a loose robe, and took possession of the recess of her window with a sigh of comfort. The sun glowed in the west, its light breaking to a sea of diamonds tossed on the heaving breast of the ocean; a purple cloak of clouds in the horizon folded back from the face of the shimmering sea; near at hand the sands shifted to and fro, enslaved to the capricious fingers of the playing waves. Gradually the cloak of cloud darkened the glowing sea; and slowly, with its threatening rise, a shadow crept over the lovely face watching in the house on the sands. “When he is away from me, I long totell him. I seem to see how much better it would be and how much he would help me to forget, as he has forgotten the terrors of his own life. But I cannot remember when he comes near—I am so happy then that it all seems unreal—I think almost that no letter ever came to me—no blight ever fell. But when he is away—then I am afraid.”” She gave a quick little look about the room. “I am afraid, too, of something else. Does a man ever fully forgive such a flaw in the woman he loves—would he be quite EONMNICLOOOKS»EO