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CHAPTER XV
They were in Paris. A half year had passed, and the
bond of love so suddenly tied had loosened, and at
last been broken. Marie and Sti Högh were slowly slipping
apart. Both knew it, though they had not put the fact into
words. The confession hid so much pain and bitterness,
so much abasement and self-scorn, that they shrank from
uttering it.
In this they were one, but in their manner of bearing
their distress they were widely different. Sti Högh grieved
ceaselessly in impotent misery, dulled by his very pain
against the sharpest stings of that pain, despairing like a
captured animal that paces back and forth, back and forth,
in its narrow cage. Marie was more like a wild creature
escaped from captivity, fleeing madly, without rest or
pause, driven on and ever on by frantic fear of the chain
that drags clanking in its track.
She wanted to forget, but forgetfulness is like the heather:
it grows of its own free will, and not all the care and labor
in the world can add an inch to its height. She poured
out gold from overflowing hands and purchased luxury.
She caught at every cup of pleasure that wealth could buy
or wit and beauty and rank could procure, but all in vain.
There was no end to her wretchedness, and nothing,
nothing could take it from her. If the mere parting from Sti
Högh could have eased her pain or even shifted the
burden, she would have left him long ago, but no, it was all the
same, no spark of hope anywhere. As well be together as
apart, since there was no relief either way.
Yet the parting came, and it was Sti Högh who proposed
it. They had not seen each other for several days, when Sti
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