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Does every man who names love in our lives / Become a power, for that? Is love's true thing / So much best to us, that what personates love / Is next best? . / My soul is not a pauper; I can live / At least my soul's life, without alms from men. / -- E. BARRETT BROWNING.
The distress which had overmastered Rona was so extreme that for a few moments it seemed to her a natural thing that Denzil should be consoling her. Her need of just that -- just the comfort that mere petting brings in overwhelming trouble -- was so intense, that there was fitness in the thought that he, the generous man who had done so much for her, should be the one to offer comfort in her perplexity.