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BOOK 5 CHAPTER 1

        In the Red Deeps

        ttingroom    ead along to to tting    tter    not alone, as usual. Some one ime to feel t it    to c by a side glance, looked s tairs; for Mr akem sometimes came in and ied t t ting    sell    so tom, and to     at all agitating to Maggie to see Paiude and pity too e sort of    P be altered by     care about o , tle altered - it ured boys face, y to ay, and after all ations, Maggie felt t so say a feo    still be melanco be, and like o look at o like    t Maggie glaoo s face toarted from    to reac d to repress to recall snatcil surning along the road, and she could go down again.

        It o lengt t be finis s beyond te, and satisfied ting out of doors. One of    o go to St Oggs, o a spot t lay beyond    rise of ground crorees, lying along tes of Dorlill. Insignifit, I call it, because in    it s oeful result, and t is rees, making an uneven er of a mile along t side of Dorlill and t fields be bounded by t urned off ao t o very capricious ed stone-quarry - so long exed t botrees, ac close-nibbled. In    ao recile o an excursion ting every    no    rest ually on t on a grassy ooping aslant from teep above en to ts, like ti bells on t of Silence, or see t pierg tant bougo t ime too, t ional reason o any ot, on t day so     sometimes, in ion, s s to deny    indulgen it.

        You may see e turning aers tcall figure and old lavender goary black silk s-like material; and    over ainly suppose o be farteeo ed, pered figure ood ary and voluntary , and ts in race: t g all figure, so    of kins sees in older faces under borderless caps, out of keeping ant youts to flas in a sudden, passionate gla e all tude, like a damped fire leaping out again when all seemed safe.

        But Maggie    uneasy at t. S trees and t t t storms urned upartled gesture to see P raised , and to    out oo coloured o pleasure. S out    t    t rong in    to speak.

        `You startled me, sly. `I never meet any one o be    me?

        It    to perceive t Maggie felt herself a child again.

        `Yes, I did, said Pill embarrassed. `I o see if you ; but you never came. tcoday, and    you in sig be displeased h me.

        `No, said Maggie    Po apany o unity of speaking to you. Ive never fotten o tom, aoo; but I    sure t you om and I    deal of trouble si makes o rouble came.

        `I t believe t you    of me so muc of you, said Pimidly. `Do you kn in tudy    me.

        Pure-case from , and ope. Maggie sao space range, dreamy eyes. It er-colour sketc as a portrait.

        `O dear, said Maggie, smiling, and flus a queer little girl I     pink frock. I really tle pause: `am I like ed me to be?

        t te, but t glance Maggie turned on P t of a coquette. S    it e deligion and love. P    , before ly, `No, Maggie.

        t died out a little from Maggies face, and t trembling of t s turn ao look at hen he said, slowly,

        `You are very muciful t you would be.

        `Am I? said Maggie, turning in a deeper flusurned ook some steps looking straiging o tomed to ty, t in abstaining from t more of abandoning all care for ador, templation of ,     occurred to    s o like tc sig no room for any otrees and o a green    surrounded by an ampre of t as t about tened, Maggies face    its gloill w Philip again, she said in a serious, sad voice,

        `I    t is trial I o bear i keep anyto love ; and tom is different - and my fat is like deat part    part    ake any notice of eac    I ed to speak to you for. I ed to let you kno tom and I t do as    suc if I beten all about you, it is not out of envy or pride - or - or any bad feeling.

        Maggie spoke leness as s on, and o fill ears. tronger resemblao y appeal more strongly to y.

        `I kno you mean,    , `I knoo keep us apart on bot it is n you be angry o call you Maggie in my ts - it is no sacrifice everyto ot deal for my fat I    give up a friendstac of any sort, in obedieo any    reise as right.

        `I dont knoen, ed, it o me t I    bound to give up anytill it o me t I could ty. But no good    - it ate of mind. Im quite sure t o him.

        `But    make o see eacimes? said Po say somet checked himself.

        `O, Im sure    like it. Dont ask me , said Maggie, in a distressed tone. `My fatrongly about some t at all happy.

        `No more am I, said Puously, `I am not happy.

        `ly. `At least - I oug to ask - but Im very, very sorry.

        Puro ieo stand still any longer, and t out of t trees and buser t last o insist immediately on ting.

        `Ive been a great deal    last, timidly, `since I    , and being distented because I couldnt ermined for us - and it makes t is laid upon us and doing o do.

        `But I t give up ly. `It seems to me o be beautiful and good, aisfied    til our feelings are deadened? I deligures - I long to be able to paint sucrive and strive, and t produce . t is pain to me, and alil my faculties lose tated a little, and t ot iful in it - I    have lived.

        `O P feel so. But    began to beat ent.

        `ell, turning quickly round and fixiingly oed to live, if you    me see you sometimes. ted, o    me. And if I could only see you alk to you a little, and s you cared for me - and t o be glad of life.

        `But eringly. (Could s    speak to erest to vary t erest before it came.)

        `If you    me see you imes - ented if it    could injure no ones    en my life. Besides-- P on, ive astuteness of love at one-and-ty, `if ty beto us, ry and quenc by our friends by our influen b about a    , if I could kno t believe ty in my orary.

        Maggie s, under flig ts. It seemed to ion t to see P only i but good; per really o find te, as s. t said t musiaggie; but at it t monotonous o obey - t sucervieo be discovered in, somet, if discovered, must cause anger and pain, and t t as a spiritual blig t again, like c breeze, persuading    ts and    tile sacrifice for oo t iveoo    ain pang, alt made    to    ttero ion t Maggie    as frank and unstraiowards him as when she was a child.

        `I t say eit last, turning round and o , lest I s seek fuidance.

        `May I e again, to-morro day - or    week?

        `I tter e, said Maggie faltering again. `I o go to St Oggs sometimes, and I    put tter in t.

        `O no, said P    be so    see tter - and -    ay, I believe, but ly from me;    deal about ion. Pray let me e ell me ell me, I en as I    till I do see you.

        `I t must be so, t be quite certain of ing icular evening.

        Maggie felt a great relief in adj to enjoy tes of panions t s linger a little: t time t, so pain Pelling ermination.

        `I t    er a fes of silence, `ra is t alked to eac as if it erday    Lorton. A    botered in t is five years.    you seemed to    of feeling t I    quite so sure t you     so muco fill your mind - I    quite sure you    me now.

        `I    t you    see you, said P made me like you better t    to explain t: I dont tro effects our natures are susceptible of    ever be explained. e eitect t nor t on us. test of painters only once painted a mysteriously divine c old    - and    tell o be divine. I tores laid up in our ure t our uanding    make no plete iory of. Certain strains of music affect me sely - I ever    ttitude of mind for a time, and if t    I might be capable of heroisms.

        `A you mean about music - I feel so, said Maggie, clasping uosity. `At least, sone, `I used to feel so    church.

        `And you long for it, Maggie? said P ioy. `Atle t is beautiful in your life. tle girl.

        to t, reflected from ters.

        `No, I ly, `except a very, very few.

        Paken from    a small volume, and    the back, as he said,

        `A o take it    it in my pocket because I am studying a se for a picture.

        Maggie    too and saitle: it revived an old impressi force.

        `"te," saking t once - I read to o read t. I    on    in my o of t beginning. Poor Minna! I    get my mind aland Isles - I used to feel the rough sea.

        Maggie spoke rapidly ening eyes.

        `take t volume c. `I dont    it noead - you among tg shadows.

        Maggie     o P, as if to say `avaunt to floating visions.

        `Do keep it, Maggie, said Preatingly, `it will give you pleasure.

        `No, tting it aside    o be; it o see and kno would make me long for a full life.

        `But you    al lot:     is narroicism - I dont like to see you persisting in it, Maggie. Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

        `But not for me - not for me, said Maggie, oo muc    - t last long.

        `Dont    saying "good by," Maggie, said Pued still to    speaking. `I must not go any fart I?

        `O no, I fot; goodby, said Maggie, pausing and putting out o irong current to Per tood looking at eacs, hdrawing her hand,

        `Im very grateful to you for t is very s to    a iful t seems t God s so t you could care about a queer little girl    I t you cared for me more tom did.

        `A fretfully, `you her.

        `Per, said Maggie, simply, `but t tanding om by t is dark to me. But I s you - t keep apart.

        `Dont say so, Maggie, said P t little girl in my mind for five years, didnt I earn some part in    not to take e away from me.

        `Not if I    I am not - I must submit. Sated a moment ao say to you, t you ter not take more notiy brot boo old me not to speak to you again, and    c. I am too long away. Good by. She gave him her hand once more.

        `I sen as I    till I see you again, Maggie. - hers.

        `Yes, yes, I    fir-tree; ter es, as if ill.

        Maggie     already begun; P o do not remember and oed intervie you must not suppose t    isfied    persuading    o infuse some o Maggies life - seeking t ends for    test promise of love to girlisenderness s o cely ty, t s love o associate    derness, o. If any o claim it all. ty of it t a mind like s very yout tree, for    of t and space it o flouris , by persuading    of em of privation?    not seeing her.
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