'
'Nor to disgrace me; nor to make me feel myself disgraced in my
own judgement?' Then there was a pause for some moments as though
he had left her without another word to say. 'Shall I go now?' he
asked.
'Oh Frank!'
'I fear that my presence only makes you unhappy.'
'Then what will your absence do? When shall I see you again?
But, no; I will not see you again. Not for many days,--not for
years. Why should I? Frank, is it wicked that I should love you?'
He could only shake his head in answer to this. 'If it be so
wicked that I must be punished for it eternally, still I love you.
I can never, never, never love another. You cannot understand it.
Oh God,--that I had never understood it myself! I think, I think,
that I would go with you now anywhere, facing all misery, all
judgements, all disgrace. You know, do you not, that if it were
possible, I should not say so. But as I know that you would not
stir a step with me, I do say so.'
'I know that it is not meant.'
'It is meant, though it could not be done. Frank, I must not see
her, not for awhile; not for years.
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