the Spell Seems Broken
te of rooms opening into eac Park s and floeen couples tendant parents and guardians. t forion of to one end ion of maturity, tty sitting- room ory attac as an occasional cool retreat. Lucy, ime and ty slimness set off by an abundant dress of s ties, including no member of any aristocracy of St Oggs, and stretco treme limits of ercial and professional gentility. Maggie at first refused to dance, saying t sten all t is ill dang . But at lengt in orry o try and persuade s danyt a try dance, but o for t y, meaning only to be plimentary ervals t it bore t s z - o z at last it urn of t of vanity and t of merriment in it, and Maggie quite fot roublous life in a c of t ic ro baious etiquette. S quite cably toorry, as fire of young joy in t if it find t breato fan it; and s bit of black lace, seemed like tting of a jewel.
Step yet asked o dance - yet paid y. Since yesterday, t in of like a blot: ttac bet tta epold o resist ttra t inually tening to overpo a certain savage resistance, and at anot a so trusion of P made it a o rusoo do t aloof from o Lucy. But noo kick young torry out of take ed to end t get rid of y t oo so possess . But even noing in ting still to t, ther.
Step automatic ies of politeness in terval, until ed alone again, at toz, and e of all ts t . ill brig to joy and tenderness: - even t seem bitter - so as a part of life, for life at t seemed a keen vibrating sciousness poised above t nig expand urainedly in t, ting ts of t and ture.
`to z again, said Stepo speak to gland tone of subdued tenderness o tones bring try o a room t is ifling ation.
`to z again: it is rato look on and t a little?
ook o tting-room, reion of visitors to look at t no visitors . to tory.
`range and urees and flos among to an enced land, and hey were all made of jewels.
S tier of geraniums as sep a supreme poet blend ligo one, calling darkness mute, and lig? Sely po of Step made Maggies face turn to and look up it - slo tness. And teadily on, feeling t t feeling anyt t long grave mutual gaze o all deep t t and e fession more intense in its rapture.
But tory, and o pause and turn. t brougo Maggie: surned ao smell tepood motionless and still pale.
`O may I get t effort to say somete trievable fession. `I te o gatill t left.
Stepe: ting a senteoget tle upo tracted felt ty of a ions of tender lie in tly lessening curves doo te s ti, almost imperceptible nicks in tness. A ouc sculptor t an image of it for till as it clasps lovingly time- ints of life.
A mad impulse seized on Steped to, clasping t.
But t moment Maggie snat ion.
` rigo insult me?
Sed from o ting and trembling.
A reaco Lucy, to Po ter soul. t momentary ten - a leprosy: Step more lighan he did of Lucy.
As for Step tory, dizzy of passions - love, rage and fused despair: despair at of self-mastery, and despair t he had offended Maggie.
t feeling surmounted every oto be by reat fiveness ive for beeed more tes, ter rage .
`Leave me to myself, if you please, suous iness, `and for ture avoid me.
Stepurned a ty of going bato to be scious of t. t so s a time t z ended.
Maggie, too, long before sered. All ture ung into activity: teful s aations of t monto an unvisited co allure y ered till ed brig defied anyto agitate o dance again, but salked quite readily and calmly nig, almost exulting in t reaco gentle, unsuspicious sister.
t m Maggie did not set off to Basset quite so soon as sed. o apany be despatcily by Mrs tulliver. So Maggie, ing, equipped for ts for t Basset, and some alarm lest Lucy s Stepo o be Stephen.
But presently tor came out into ted Stephen.
`e just catcips of tc, said Philip.
taken eac Maggie e revival of tionate smile t enced.
`Yes, sen look at t on tems again. But I oo ther.
`I inually, said P t to live upon.
A keen remembrand keen pity impelled Maggie to put en walked hand in hand!
`I remember all ts - just icular tiful stories t I had never heard of before.
`You you, Maggie? said Pting timid and tremulous. `thers home again.
`Yes - but I s be t told you, perhaps?
`ture o t again, Maggie? - t book is quite closed?
t en looked up at reating ruggling ray of th her large sincere gaze.
`t book never ies of t. But tie to my brest. I do not will divide me always from him.
`Is t t for ever, Maggie? said Pe determination to e answer.
`t. At t moment s as if ted cup o tionary excitement t gave ery subsided, and s ture h a sense of calm choice.
t looking at eaces: in Maggies mind t ses of love and parting tual moment, and s Phe Red Deeps.
P t to ans as a rock-pool. tisfied of an omnisce t ect tlest fold of t.
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