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She but watched him, gravely at first, as to see, with this, where he was, and she might have seen something or feared something that moved her sympathy. "I would live for you still  if I could." SHE BUT WATCHED HIM GRAVELY AT FIRST AS TO SEE WITH THIS WHERE HE WAS AND SHE MIGHT HAVE SEEN SOMETHING OR FEARED SOMETHING THAT MOVED HER SYMPATHY I WOULD LIVE FOR YOU STILL IF I COULD
uffering?" She looked up at him a while in silence. "No--you don't understand." "I suffer," said John Marcher. "Don't, don't!" "How can I help at least _that_?" "_Don't_!" May Bartram repeated. She spoke it in a tone so special, in spite of her weakness, that he stared an instant--stared as if some light, hitherto hidden, had shimmered across his vision. Darkness again closed over it, but the gleam had already become for him an idea. "Because I haven't the right--?" "Don't _know_--when you needn't," she mercifully urged. "You needn't--for we shouldn't." "Shouldn't?" If he could but know what she meant! "No-- it's too much." "Too much?" he still asked but with a mystification that was the next moment of a sudden to give way. Her words, if they meant something, affected him in this light--the light also of her wasted face--as meaning _all_, and the sense of what knowledge had been for herself came over him with a rush which broke through into a question. "Is it of that then you're dying?  NECESSARILY TO KNOW IT HOW IN THE WORLD WHEN WHAT IS SUCH KNOWLEDGE BUT SUFFERING SHE LOOKED UP AT HIM AWHILE IN SILENCE NO YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND I SUFFER SAID JOHN MARCHER DON'T DON'T HOW CAN I HELP AT LEAST THAT DON'T MAY BARTRAM REPEATED SHE SPOKE IT IN A TONE SO SPECIAL IN SPITE OF HER WEAKNESS THAT HE STARED AN INSTANT STARED AS IF SOME LIGHT HITHERTO HIDDEN HAD SHIMMERED ACROSS HIS VISION DARKNESS AGAIN CLOSED OVER IT BUT THE GLEAM HAD ALREADY BECOME FOR HIM AN IDEA BECAUSE I HAVEN'T THE RIGHT DON'T KNOW WHEN YOU NEEDN'T SHE MERCIFULLY URGED YOU NEEDN'T FOR WE SHOULDN'T SHOULDN'T IF HE COULD BUT KNOW WHAT SHE MEANT NO IT'S TOO MUCH TOO MUCH HE STILL ASKED BUT WITH A MYSTIFICATION THAT WAS THE NEXT MOMENT OF A SUDDEN TO GIVE WAY HER WORDS IF THEY MEANT SOMETHING AFFECTED HIM IN THIS LIGHT THE LIGHT ALSO OF HER WASTED FACE AS MEANING ALL AND THE SENSE OF WHAT KNOWLEDGE HAD BEEN FOR HERSELF CAME OVER HIM WITH A RUSH WHICH BROKE THROUGH INTO A QUESTION IS IT OF THAT THEN YOU'RE DYING
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