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Maggie pressed her fingers together almost convulsively as she held them clasped on her lap. A great terror was upon her, as if she were ever and anon seeing where she stood by great flashes of lightning, and then again stretched forth her hands in the darkness.
“No, I don’t sacrifice you — I couldn’t sacrifice you,” she said, as soon as she could speak again; “but I can’t believe in a good for you, that I feel, that we both feel, is a wrong toward others. We can’t choose happiness either for ourselves or for another; we Cincinnati Bengals Hattar can’t tell where that will lie. We can only choose whether we will indulge ourselves in the present moment, or whether we will renounce that, for the sake of obeying the divine voice within us — for the sake of being true to all the motives that sanctify our lives. I know this belief is hard; it has slipped away from me again and again; but I have felt that if I let it go forever, I Polo Pas CHer should have no light through the darkness of this life.”
“But, Maggie,” said Stephen, seating himself by her again, “is it possible you don’t see that what happened yesterday has altered the whole position of things? What infatuation is it, what obstinate prepossession, that blinds you to that? It is too late to say what we might have done or what we ought to have done. Admitting the very worst view of what has been done, it is a fact Maillot AS Monaco Pas CHer we must act on now; our position is altered; the right course is no longer what it was before. We must accept Miami Dolphins our own actions and start afresh from them. Suppose we had been married yesterday? It is nearly the same thing. The effect on others would not have been different. It would only have made this difference to ourselves,” Stephen added bitterly, “that you might have acknowledged then that your Dame Canada Team tie to me was stronger than to others.”
Again a deep flush came over Maggie’s face, and she was silent. Stephen thought again that he was beginning to prevail — he had never yet believed that he should not prevail; there are possibilities which our minds shrink from too completely for us to fear them.
“Dearest,” he said, in his deepest, tenderest tone, leaning toward her, and putting his arm round her, “you are mine now — the world believes it; duty must spring out of that now.
“In a few hours you will be legally mine, and those who had claims on us will submit — they will see that there was a force which declared against their claims.”
Maggie’s eyes opened wide in one terrified look at the face that was close to hers, and she started up, pale again.
“Oh, I can’t do it,” she said, in a voice almost of agony; “Stephen, don’t ask me — don’t urge me. I can’t argue any longer — I don’t know what is wise; but my heart will not let me do it. I see — I feel their trouble now; it is as if it were branded on Kansas City Chiefs my mind. I have suffered, and had no one to pity me; and now Scarpe Nike Zoom KD Trey I have made others suffer. It would never leave me; it would embitter your love to me. I do care for Philip — in a different way; I r |
