So unremembering and so unkind.
XLVIII
Softly he spoke to her, patiently dealt With
what he feared her madness. By and by
He pierced her understanding. Then he knelt Upon
the seat, and took her hands: Now try
To think a minute I am come, my Dear, Unharmed and back on
furlough. Are you glad
To have your lover home again? To
me, Pickthorn has never had
A greater pleasantness. Could you not bear
To come and sit awhile beside me here?
A stone between us surely should not be.
XLIX
She smiled a little wan and ravelled smile, Then
came to him and on his shoulder laid
Her head, and they two rested there awhile, Each taking comfort. Not
a word was said.
But when he put his hand upon her breast And felt her beating
heart, and with his lips
Sought solace for her and himself. She
started As one sharp lashed with whips,
And pushed him from her, moaning, his dumb quest
Denied and shuddered from. And he, distrest,
Loosened his wife, and long they sat there, parted.
L
Eunice was very quiet all that day, A little
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