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The shadows lengthen1 when the sun descends2 in the heavens; and those which, in the broad light, enhance the brilliancy of all things now overspread and gradually extinguish them. Thus do our anxieties increase when our joy lessens3; and those which made us smile in the plenitude of our happiness before long make us weep....
She has lied to me! I am sure now that she has lied! What has she done? What can she be hiding from me? I can imagine nothing that could kill the interest which I take in her, but she has lied! I was certain of it yesterday, after our talk, when I remembered her blushes and her embarrassment4. I wanted to write to her then and could not. Darkness has fallen suddenly between her and me; and I no longer know to whom I am speaking; I no longer know what soul hears me nor at what heart I knocked!
A friend's lie hurts us even more than it humiliates5 us; it tells us that we have not been understood and that we inspire distrust or fear. I remember saying to her, one day:
"I would rather know that you hate me than ever feel that you fear me. You must hide nothing from me, unless you want to wound me deeply; for the person to whom we feel obliged to lie is much more responsible for our lie than even we are."
But how can I hope that every one of my words will be remembered and understood and turned to account! I enjoy talking into the soul of this great baby as one likes singing in an unfurnished house; and I am none the less conscious of the illusion of it all. If we are to influence a fellow-creature, we do so best without aiming at it too carefully. Success comes with time, by intercourse6 and example.
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We are now on the threshold of autumn and the days are already short. By seven o'clock, all the farms are sleeping....
When I left Rose yesterday, it was understood that she should sometimes come to see me in the
evening, when her day's work has not been too hard. She is to come across the downs and tap at the
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lengthen
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unemployed
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remains
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rending
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confession
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faltering
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astonishment
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subjugated
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imprisoned
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condemned
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farmhouse
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loathed
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repentance
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soothe
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exquisite
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velvet
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lasting
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judgment
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insistence
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stifle
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scoff
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tolerance
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brittleness
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interfere
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apathy
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cowardice
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vile
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docile
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disposition
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flexibility
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refinement
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gutter
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plunge
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reluctance
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distresses
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consistency
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forsake
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prone
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rippling
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veins
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animated
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irritable
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fragrance
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unison
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orchard
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