e many more, as t. I o to make you immune, t you mig me. My eyes—do you look at my eyes, Maud. akes off acles and brings o mine; and I flinc of  and naked face—yet see nooo, ain film, or milkiness, upon t sside triol and arsenic must do so  like t so. I he larger dose.

    urns and takes a book from  to me, pressing my fingers  it.

    Keep t o tutored. tainted, sell. You understand me? I ouch poison, Maud. Remember.

    tain Draion of Laura. I sit alone, and turn tand at last tter I  lemen.

    t pleasure. My uncle collects it—keeps it neat, keeps it ordered, on guarded s keeps it strangely—not for its o; rat provides fuel for tisfying of a curious lust.

    I mean, t of the bookman.

    See o me softly, draexts e t edge? Observe tooling, look. he

    tilts to me but, jealously,  let me take it. Not yet not yet! Ater; titles, look, picked out in red. tals floext.  extravagance! And t see ispiece— ture is of a lady reclined on a coucleman beside  tip—done after Borel, most rare. I all at Liverpool, for a s part  noy pounds.—Come, come! y o my eacion, to see you colour? ell, no more of t.  leisure. You  tance, in tiny of the form.

    So o me, many times. I do not believe een. t first,  seems a frig c lusts, gro limbs and cavities, be prone to fevers, to crises, seek not togeting flesopped up ing of my legs. I imagine myself fingered and pierced ... I am teen, as I o restlessness: I begin to lie eac at Barbaras side,  back t to study t. take to c I kno,