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She did not resist, but resigned herself to his embrace, as if he still had the right to take her in his arms, as if she still belonged to him.
She had been under a great, an indescribable strain for several hours, and his sudden presence, the look in his eyes, the touch of his hands, deprived her of the power of thought, of resistance. To her and to him, at that moment, it was as if they had not been parted, as if the events of the last few months were only visionary.