Hylas and the Nymphs

Hylas and the Nymphs
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and she did not delude herself with any vain conceits, or deny her love, or give herself airs, in the idea of outshining the others. The full recognition of the futility of their infatuation, from a social point of view; its purposeless beginning; its self-bounded outlook; its lack of everything to justify its existence in the eye of civilization (while lacking nothing in the eye of Nature); the one fact that it did exist, ecstasizing them to a killing joy; all this imparted to them a resignation, a dignity, which a practical and sordid expectation of winning him as a husband would have destroyed. ¡¡¡¡They tossed and turned on their little beds, and the cheese-wring dripped monotonously downstairs. ¡¡¡¡`B' you awake, Tess?' whispered one, half-an-hour later. ¡¡¡¡It was Izz Huett's voice. ¡¡¡¡Tess replied in the affirmative, whereupon also Retty and Marian suddenly flung the bedclothes