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Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1900 edition. Extrait: ...somebody else's fault, or some fault in the way things are arranged." "There speaks my philosopher," he said, a little smile creeping out from the shadows of his mouth. "And is my philosopher once more my friend?" "Yes," she said, eagerly. "I cannot live in anything but friendliness. And it would be dismally lonely for me here in this great house if we were not to be friends." After a silence: "You must get companions," he urged, with sudden energy. "I never intended to make you nun counterpart to my monk. Fill the house, if you wish it. I shall never interfere with you. I am much in my rooms." "What do you do there?" she submitted. "I passed the door the other day and wondered. I looked up to your windows. But even on Tuesday, when the day was so beautiful and the trees were hung with frost as though they had been trimmed with lace, I did not see you." He smiled. "No," he said; "I am not much at my windows." "It would have done you good to be out," she urged. "I took a long walk--almost to the old mill. It was delicious." "For those who can walk." "Well, you might have come with me in your chair," she maintained; "you cannot walk, and that, I suppose, has to be faced. The only thing to do is to make the best of it. And I should think the chair must be very comfortable." "For women and weaklings," he said, peevishly. She ignored the peevishness. "It cannot be good always to come to this same place," she said. "It would take your mind off your troubles, I think, if you were to go a different way." "But supposing I should take my mind with me. How then, Renee?" She shook her head at him with sudden boldness. She smiled him a radiant smile. "You must leave it at home," she said. "It must be..."