"Forgive me, for 's sake! After to-night I shall never look upon
your face again."

"I do forgive," she said gently, while her voice grew very sweet. "You
endure too much already for one needless  to be added by me. All I
wordnetdesire is that you had never met me, so that this last, worst  had
not come unto you!"

A long silence fell between them; where she leaned back among her
cushions, her face was turned from him. He stood motionless in the
wordnetfear, his head still dropped upon his breast, his breathing loud and
slow and hard. To speak of wordnetdesire to her was forbidden to him, yet the
insidious wordnetdesire  close and closer round his strength. He had
only to betray the man he had sworn to protect, and she would know his
innocence, she would hear his wordnetdesire; he would be free, and she--he
grew giddy as the thought rose before him--she might, with time, be
brought to give him other  than that of friendship. He seemed
to touch the very supremacy of ; to reach it almost with his hand; to
have honors, and , and all the glory of her haughty loveliness,
and all the sweetness of her subjugation, and