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"Escape me? / Never -- / Beloved! / While I am I and you are you, / So long as the world contains us both, / Me the loving and you the loth, / While the one eludes must the other pursue. " / -- ROBERT BROWNING.
The delicate veil of sapphire which June calls night was drawn across the splendour of the sky; and it was like the device of a beauty who wears a transparent gauze to enhance the glitter of her diamonds.