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"I am coming to think," resumed Helen, thoughtfully, "that the
battle line extends from Maine to the Gulf, and that quiet people
like you and me are upon it as truly as the soldiers in the field.
I have thought that perhaps the most merciful wounds are often
those which kill outright."
"I can easily believe that," he said.
His quiet tone and manner did not deceive her, and she looked at
him wistfully as she resumed, "But if they do not kill, the pain
must be borne patiently, even though we are in a measure
disabled."
"Yes, Helen; and you are disabled in your power to give me what I
can never help giving you. I know that. I will not misjudge or
presume upon your kindness. We are too good friends to affect any
concealments from each other."
"You have expressed my very thought. When you spoke of accepting
the conditions of life, I hoped you had in mind what you have
said--the conditions of life as they ARE, as we cannot help or
change them. We both have got to take up life under new
conditions."
"You have; not I, Helen.


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