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united, to deviate, nature from nature, sex from sex. Already, thou dear lord of me and of mine, I feel with blinding tears that I stand apart from thee, when most cherished by thee. Already I see that I begin to tread a separate and a solemn road.
"Dana! Dana! My heart reaches out to you with an unutterable cry. Try to interpret its inarticulate meaning.
"Forgive this too solemn letter, my dear Love, and love me better for it if you can. If your love does not advance with my need of it, I shall perish of that pause.
"For I can see nothing in all the world of visions this Christmas eve but the Mother with the Child upon her breast.
"Oh, be gentle to
"Your Wife."
May the fifteenth.
When I see how long it is since I have opened this book, I do not know whether to laugh or cry. As a rule I find the former works better. Masculine tenderness is said to respond to tears. I do not find it so. Rather, I should Rather, I should say that a man's devotion fades under salt water, like a bathing-suit, proving unserviceable in the very element for which it is supposed to be adapted.