`` Mebbe it 's best , '' she muttered . `` He 's the last of the Temples , so mebbe she 'll rest in her grave when she 's killed 'em all . I dunno what she 's sich a spite at them for -- there 'd be more sense if she 'd haunt the Mortons , seein ' as a Morton killed her . Well , I 'm mighty old and tired and worn out . It do n't seem that it 's been much use , the way I 've slaved and fussed to bring that b ' y up and keep things together for him -- and now the ghost 's got him . I might as well have let him die when he was a sickly baby . '' If this had been said to Roger he would have retorted that it was worthwhile to have lived long enough to feel what he was feeling now . He would not have missed it for a score of other men 's lives . He had drunk of some immortal wine and was as a god . Even if she never came again , he had seen her once , and she had taught him life 's great secret in that one unforgettable exchange of eyes . She was his -- his in spite of his ugliness and his crooked shoulder . No man could ever take her from him . But she did come again . One evening , when the darkening grove was full of magic in the light of the rising yellow moon shining across the level field , Roger sat on the big boulder by the grave . The evening was very still ; there was no sound save the echoes of noisy laughter that seemed to come up from the bay shore -- drunken fishermen , likely as not . Roger resented the intrusion of such a sound in such a place -- it was a sacrilege . When he came here to dream of her , only the loveliest of muted sounds should be heard -- the faintest whisper of trees , the half-heard , half-felt moan of surf , the airiest sigh of wind . He never read Wordsworth now or any other book . He only sat there and thought of her , his great eyes alight , his pale face flushed with the wonder of his love . She slipped through the dark boughs like a moonbeam and stood by the stone .
Again he saw her quite plainly -- saw and drank her in with his XXXXX .
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