"'Happy or not, I cannot bear to go on so much longer. You are too generous to require it.'
"'Be reasonable, Louis; be patient! I like you because you are patient.'
"'Like me no longer, then; love me instead. Fix our marriage day; think of it to-night, and decide.'
"She breathed a murmur, inarticulate yet expressive; darted, or melted, from my arms--and I lost her."
Louis; be patient! I like you because you are patient.'
"'Like me no longer, then; love me instead. Fix our marriage day; think of it tonight, and decide.'
"She breathed an inarticulate murmur; darted, or melted, from my arms - and I lost her."