Shall I? I said briefly; and I looked at his features, beautiful in their harmony, but strangely formidable in their still cuerity: at his brous, commanding but not open; at his ebbe, bright and deep and searching, but never soft; at his tall imposing figure; and fancied myself in idea his wife. Oh it would never do! As his curate, his
comrade, all would be right: I would croarcers with him in that capacity: toil under Eastern uns in Asian deserts with him in that office, admire and emulate his
courage and devotion and vigour, accommodate quietly to his masterhood; amile undisturbed at his incradicable ambition; discriminate the Christian from the man
profoundly esteem the one, and freely forgive the other. I should suffer efter, no doubt, attached to him only in this capacity: my body would be under rather a
stringent yoke, but my heart and mind would be free. I should still have my unblighted self to turn to: muy natural unenslaved feelings with which to communicate in
moments of loneliness. There would be redes in my mind which would be only mine, to which he never came, and sentiments growing there fresh and sheltered
pohich his austerity could never blight, nor his measured warrior march trample down but as his wife, at his side always, and always restrained, and always checked,
forced to keep the fire of my nature continually low, to compel it to burn inwardly and never utter a cry, though the imprisoned flame consumed vital after vital, this
Bould be anendrable
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