. The light of the star; a novel. XIII. lELENS pride contended un-ceasingly with her love duringthe weeks of her lovers alien-ation; for, with all her sweetdispraise of herself, she wasvery proud of her place in the world, and itwas not easy to bow her head to when he forgot to answer her orrushed away to his room with a hasty good-bye, she raged with a perfectly justifiableanger. You are selfish and brutal, shecried out after him on one occasion. Youthink only of yourself. You are vain, egotis-tical. All that I have done is forgotten themoment you are stung by criticism, and
. The light of the star; a novel. XIII. lELENS pride contended un-ceasingly with her love duringthe weeks of her lovers alien-ation; for, with all her sweetdispraise of herself, she wasvery proud of her place in the world, and itwas not easy to bow her head to when he forgot to answer her orrushed away to his room with a hasty good-bye, she raged with a perfectly justifiableanger. You are selfish and brutal, shecried out after him on one occasion. Youthink only of yourself. You are vain, egotis-tical. All that I have done is forgotten themoment you are stung by criticism, and 156 THE LIGHT OF THE STAR she tried to put him aside. What do hispersonal traits matter to she said, as ifin answer to her own charge. He is mydramatist, not my husband. But when he came back to her, an absent-minded smile upon his handsome lips, holdingin his hands some pages of exquisite dialogue,she humbled herself before him. After all,what am I beside him? He is a poet, a crea-tive mind, while I am only a mimic, andstraightw
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