“I did not know it then, but since I have learned to love I have learned to feel."This! O this is worst of all! Leave me, cast me off as they have done, but do not make me despise myself and you! Such love is worse than the desertion, the alienation, the hate that others have heaped upon me!He stooped and raised her in his arms. "Darling! what is this?" he whispered, in a palpitating voice. "Shall I not leave you? Do you care to have me stay?" His lips sought hers and kissed them tenderly, but Kimberly wrenched herself from his embrace, crying.Remember first and always in what I have to say, that I hold you above all women in my respect, and in my love, and that whatever unhappiness has come between us I trace wholly to my own folly, and would, if possible, keep wholly to my own heart, leaving you only the divine sorrow of an angel who has tried to become mortal for a mortal's sake, and has failed.Nor fancy, tender conscience, that you have wronged my love by showing, even to...