Sealed Lips — page 110: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

102 SEALED LIPS. — reappear once more to us, or rather to one of us, for the other is acreature so divinely gifted that she seems elevated above reality itself.” Jenny listened with lowered eyes, as if her ears were still more charmed than her eyes. When he had finished speaking she said, in her deep, musical voice: “It is strange that you should speak of dreams and illusions. You have just come from a country where the reality of these things surrounding us exists.” “Tt is true,” said he, half closing his eyes to see again the far off scenes. “I have traveled days and nightsin forests of which this glass cage is only an ingenious miniature. I have experienced as great emotions as nature is able to excite in any human being. It was sublime. It was immense, but for all that—empty. In the midst of this fer- vent working of material, in this teeming life which flies and leaps about me inits own way,I was chilled by an overwhelming solitude. How many days of my life would I not have given then to see spring up at my side the one supreme miracle with- out which all else is simply a frame waiting fora picture! Ah! how I called you then, so often, with- out knowing you. Perhaps I shall die under excess of enthusiasm at meeting in this paradise the Eve of my heart, if she would only permit me the joy of touching her hand with my lips.” Patrice forgot for a moment that another man GOmicbdoo cS (C(O)