, that had made you , and filled your mind for a while with those unsubstantial and indefinable for the past which we are all apt to feel at certain moments of our life. There are few of us who do not encounter, now and again, some of that irrational of which, when over-indulged, drives men to wordnetanger and self-destruction. I used to know well what it was before I knew you; but since I have had the of having you in my house, I have banished it utterly. In that I think I have been stronger than you. Do not speak under the influence of that till you have thought whether you, too, cannot banish it." "I have tried, and it will not be banished." "Try again, Alice. It is a damned , and belongs neither to heaven nor to earth. Do not say to me the words that you were about to say till you have wrestled with it manfully. I think I know what those words were to be. If you wordnetdesire me, those words should not be spoken. If you do not--" "If I do not wordnetdesire you, I wordnetdesire no one upon earth." "I believe it. I believe it as I believe in my own wordnetdesire