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Show 133 1- Tlll? lHlllC FOREST FUIST MOVE TO Tllli ENEMY What would she make ot‘ him? That she should make nothin: ot' him at all was as iueredible to him as that there should not be. somewhere in the worl l. Polehestcr town in (ilt‘lvl‘sllll‘t‘ eonntv. 'l‘here had been with him, I think. from the first a fear thwt "it was all too .L‘ood to be tiaie"~-~7limeo Dames at (102m 't Mrs. lt is not easy for any man. after thirty years believe that she had grown into a woman. ‘i r till instant as a young girl loves a hero ot- a novel. l‘lmuuh she was no" u woman she must still Leer» her fl; nvv, lie was no longer part wt. that ‘:‘: :n at \vhoni l""'l‘l" laughed. the least (mnplieated of their sex. About Marie lvanovna oulv :i She tuust. l thiuL. l‘:":‘wrwl At her own .i‘.\.‘:l\t'ltllig'. tot she was honest, inii" v‘\'t'!‘ wwwun was those thing's. >er shrinking from the world. to shake himself free of superstitions. and sueh terrors the quiet and retired Polt-hester had bred in 'l‘renehard‘s heart as though it had been the \‘erlv epitome ol life at its lowest and vilest. [t simply eame to this. that: he refused to believe that Marie Ivanovua had been given to him only to be taken away again. About women he lillCW simply nothing and Russian women are not She had loved .1‘ lie still t'unt: to his eon .l\ the tl =.\s :‘tl\ invwl to lre terriblv w .l tl wrtselnx ruvnnll Semwounv. 'i ii an .i\\ f'ul ti Lure. power \':\ l»l'intlwrs lllll '. Ii'w enee. llv he lle multl \\,|: <|Hl\ tun ‘\‘~l'lll:1lltll‘H'tllvl Il'iiln he of («nurse knew nothing at all. *nuz' His tirst weeks in our Otriad had been like the painful return to drab reality after a splendid dream. "After all I am the hopeless creature I thought 1 was. What was there. in those days in Petrog‘rad, that could blind iuef" llis shyness returned. his awkwardness. his mistakes in taet and resouree were upon him again lil<e a suit ol‘ ltadl‘v made (-lotlu'vs. lle l\'11('\\‘ this but he believed that, it would malo- no diti'erence to his lady. So sure was he of himsell‘ in regard to herifishe might be transformed into au‘xthiu: hideous or vile and still now he would love her~~thal l1" could not believe that she would change. rl'he loVL‘ IlmI had come to them was surely eternal-it must be. it IMH‘T be. it must be. . . He failed altogether to understand her youth. her 11M. ' perience, above all her coloured romantie taney. llt'! l'v iuantic fanev had made him in her eyes tor a law: ' l . something that, he was not. After a month at tht \\..I‘ |