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“Yes. Yes, in every way I know to–”
Oh, he is too BRASH. Even if she’s guessed it, the truth must sound G R U E S O M E coming from his own lips. And yet he cannot imagine that what is so beautiful – what may be the ONLY beautiful thing in him – could cause her harm. … It is the vessel, the twisted, monstrous shell that would tarnish such a sacred and heavenly sensation!
“Please do not be angry. Do not be afraid. I would never – COULD never ask of you what you do not want! Only… let me love you. Needn’t say you l– l o v e m e . No. But do not send me away!”
she cannot LOOK at him, cannot bear to see the pain she knows to be in his eyes. it is already too much to hear it in his voice