Why must you creep in like this to hear me and put me to shame ? Oh , I love you -- I will say it , laugh as you will . Is it such a strange thing that I should have a heart like other men ? This will make sport for you ! I , who love you better than my life , better than any other man in the world can love you , will be a jest to you all your life . I love you -- and yet I think I could hate you -- you have destroyed my dream -- you have done me deadly wrong . '' `` Jasper ! Jasper ! '' cried Alice , finding her voice . His anger hurt her with a pain she could not endure . It was unbearable that Jasper should be angry with her . In that moment she realized that she loved him -- that the words he had spoken when unconscious of her presence were the sweetest she had ever heard , or ever could hear . Nothing mattered at all , save that he loved her and was angry with her . `` Do n't say such dreadful things to me , '' she stammered , `` I did not mean to listen . I could not help it . I shall never laugh at you . Oh , Jasper '' -- she looked bravely at him and the fine soul of her shone through the flesh like an illuminating lamp -- `` I am glad that you love me ! and I am glad I chanced to overhear you , since you would never have had the courage to tell me otherwise . Glad -- glad ! Do you understand , Jasper ? ''
XXXXX looked at her with the eyes of one who , looking through pain , sees rapture beyond .
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