lips with her caresses. 
Was he in , was he in  ? He was silent 
to her ! Why ? He would keep nothing that grieved 
him from he7'j even in wordnetdesire ? 

And he had to smile on her while his  was 
breaking 1 He had to look do^vn into her eyes, while 
he knew that towards them stole the doom of his 
past ! Imprisoned from her sight througli all her 
life, his hidden sin was loosed to rend her from him 
and destroy her at the last. And in the failing light 
she gazed upward with her deep, dreaming wordnetdesire, 
and her lips, mtli the sinless smile of childhood, were 
lifted for his kiss ! 

O God !  the throbs of his , as they beat against 
hers, must tell her he thought the secret they held ; on 
the darkness of his face she must behold the darkness 
of his  ! She' leaned her cheek upon his hand,  
the blood-stain there must scorch her. She laid her 



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head against his breast,  the  it veiled must 
wordnetfear her from her resting-place. 

The guardian of her , the husband of her 
youth, the idol of her trustful life  and through him 
she must die ! 

His arms closed round her with passionate , 
his lips clung to hers with endless kisses,  to him