Sealed Lips — page 212: what you’re looking at

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204 SEALED LIPS. it gives me, the proud thought that no other being like you lives upon this earth, and that this treas- ure ismine. Yes, I believe in eternity. Eternity is one minute of my life when I feel your heart against mine, and I bury my lips in your hair. Ah! you have given me a hundred very happy cen- turies !” Then seeing her immovable and speechless, as if frightened by these wild transports: ~ “You do not love me!” he would exclaim. “I know it! Lam not your lover; ]am your master! Now, then, superb slave, I steal these kisses as I stole you. What does it matter? it is one more lux- ury. What supreme delight it would be to die now if you would die with me.” | Soon he would pay for these disordered outbreaks by overwhelming returns of distressing grief. “Alas! What am I to you?’ he would sigh. “What could you find in me worthy of your sov- ereion beauty? Even what I once had I have no longer. Youth, art, enthusiasm, all is merged in my love! If you wished it the world would be at your feet as Tam. Every man that you look at loses his reason. Kemeneff stammers like a school- boy when you glance at him. And that other; the one whose name you have never told me, that you love yet, I presume—where is he? Perhaps he still lives separated from you? Dead or living, oh, how I envy him!” One day, after looking ai her for a long time with GEoOmichboo SH (E(@)