Literary Fiction
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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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Selden laid the book aside and sank into the chair beside the desk. He leaned his elbows on it and hid his face in his hands. The bitter waters of life surged high about him. They're sterile taste was on his lips. Did the check to trainer explain the mystery or deepen it? At first his mind refused to act. He felt only the taint of such a transaction between a man like trainer and a girl like lily bart. Then gradually his troubled vision cleared. Old hints and rumors came back to him and out of the very insinuations he had feared to probe. He constructed an explanation of the mystery. It was true then, that she had taken money from trainer, but true also, as the contents of the little desk declared that the obligation had been intolerable to her and that at the first opportunity she had freed herself from it. Though the act left her face to face with bare, unmitigated poverty. That was all he knew all. He could hope to unravel of the story. The mute lips on the pillow refused him more than this. Unless, indeed, they had told him the rest in the kiss they had left upon his forehead. Yes, he could now read into that farewell all that his heart crave to find there. He could even draw from it courage not to accuse himself for having failed to reach the height of his opportunity. He saw that all the conditions of life had conspired to keep them apart, since his very detachment from the external influences which swayed her, had increased his spiritual fastidiousness and made it more difficult for him to live and love uncritically. But at least he had loved her, had been willing to stake his future on his faith in her. And if the moment had been faded to pass from them before they could seize it, he saw now that for both it had been saved whole out of the ruins of their lives. It was this moment of love, this fleeting victory over themselves, which had kept them from atrophy and extinction, which in her had reached out to him in every struggle against the influence of her surroundings and in him, had kept alive the faith that now drew him penitent and reconciled to her side. He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lease. And in the silence they're passed between them. The word which made all clear
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Narrator, Storyteller, Deep, Narrator, Sad, Serious, Emotional, North American (General)