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Skrebensky sat beside her, listening to the sermon, to the

voice of law and order "The very hairs of your head are all

nus

were quite at his own disposal You could do as you liked with

your own things, so long as you left other people's alone

Ursula caressed him and made love to him Nevertheless he

knew she wanted to react upon hiainst hi love to

hiratified

hiht hi, ro They put it in Rhine wine, in their glass, and she drank,

then he drank They drank till the ring lay exposed at the

bottolass Then she took the simple jewel, and tied it

on a thread round her neck, where she wore it

He asked her for a photograph when he was going away She

went in great excites The result was an ugly little picture of herself with

her mouth on one side She wondered over it and adirl The picture hurt him

He kept it, he always remembered it, but he could scarcely bear

to see it There was a hurt to his soul in the clear, fearless

face that was touched with abstraction Its abstraction was

certainly away from him