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THE SPIRIT OF LOVE

VOL. III.

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OF LOVE

A NOVEL

IN THREE VOLUMES

VOL. III.

LONDON

HENRY AND CO., BOUVERIE STREET

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And against her breast was a tiny thing, who drank from it. . . . "He has lisped one word

only to me in the desert-'Passion'''

OLIVE SCHREINER

LOAN STACK

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AFTER the storm of grief which Tina's "sirprize" had induced subsided, Olive entered into a new stage of feeling. The stupor having broken did not gather again, and she was conscious of the full intensity of her trouble.

Perhaps it was better for her health that the stupor should have passed. The state of mental torpor was debilitating, and it had already had a bad effect upon her high-strung delicate brain, dulling and weakening its powers. But it would have been better had the stupor been broken gradually, not in one short hour

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