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DARK HESTER
tend, with you, did I? But I’m not pretending now. It’s over.’
‘You have, really, cut him out of your life?—What queer creatures we are, Celia.—It almost hurts me to hear you say it.’
‘But I don’t mean that. I’ve not cut him out. But it’s over—in the way of hurting. It’s all become rather like the cathedral floating over the plains, you know, something rather terrible; but beautiful, and very far away,’ said Celia.