The Odds - Ethel May Dell (read full novel .TXT) 📗
- Author: Ethel May Dell
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memory he avoided her look. "No," he said.
"What then?" Her voice was suddenly very soft and infinitely appealing.
He opened his arms with a gesture of renunciation "It is--beyond words," he said.
She leaned nearer. Her hands slipped upwards, clasping his neck.
"It is the greatest thing that has ever come to me," she said, and in her voice there throbbed a new note which he had never heard in it before. "Do you think--oh, do you think--I would cast--that--away?"
He did not speak in answer. It seemed as if he could not. That which lay between them was indeed beyond words. Only in the silence he took her again into his arms and kissed her on the lips.
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"What then?" Her voice was suddenly very soft and infinitely appealing.
He opened his arms with a gesture of renunciation "It is--beyond words," he said.
She leaned nearer. Her hands slipped upwards, clasping his neck.
"It is the greatest thing that has ever come to me," she said, and in her voice there throbbed a new note which he had never heard in it before. "Do you think--oh, do you think--I would cast--that--away?"
He did not speak in answer. It seemed as if he could not. That which lay between them was indeed beyond words. Only in the silence he took her again into his arms and kissed her on the lips.
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Publication Date: 01-12-2010
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