ere brimming
with tears.
For the first time she recognized the symptoms of infatuation which
she had felt incipiently as a child
as a girl in her earliest teens
and later as
a young woman. The recognition did not lessen the reality
the
poignancy of the revelation by any suggestion or promise of instability.
The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to
heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate.
The present alone was significant; was hers
to torture her as it was doing
then with the biting conviction that she had lost that which she had held
that she had been denied that which her impassioned
newly awakened
being demanded.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
54
XVI
Do you miss your friend greatly?" asked Mademoiselle Reisz one
morning as she came creeping up behind Ednawho had just left her
cottage on her way to the beach. She spent much of her time in the water
since she had acquired finally the art of swimming. As their stay at
Grand Isle drew near its closeshe felt that she could not give too mu
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