apparition in The Crooked Stick
e joy and the mystery, the strange, inexplicable, subtly compounded essence which the poets in all ages have termed love. Why it should be so she was unable to comprehend. She told herself that he was not so strong and true as this adorer, so clever as that, or so amusing as the other; but still, w…
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- The Crooked Stick; Rolf Boldrewood
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e joy and the mystery, the strange, inexplicable, subtly compounded essence which the poets in all ages have termed love. Why it should be so she was unable to comprehend. She told herself that he was not so strong and true as this adorer, so clever as that, or so amusing as the other; but still, why was it? Who can tell? who explain the birth of fancy, the apparition of love? But she chose to make him her hero. And if she so willed it, who was there to gainsay her? Among the other privileges which her nursing sisterhood permitted was that of receiving and bringing in the letters of her patient. About these he had always been.
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