I feel like a lost , helpless child . Oh , Jeff ! '' She put her slender hands over her face and sobbed . Every sob cut Jeffrey to the heart . `` Do n't -- do n't , Sara , '' he said huskily . `` I ca n't bear to see you suffer so . I 'd die for you if it would do you any good . I love you -- I love you ! I never meant to tell you so , but it is the truth . I ought n't to tell you now . Do n't think that I 'm trying to take any advantage of your loneliness and sorrow . I know -- I have always known -- that you are far above me . But that could n't prevent my loving you -- just humbly loving you , asking nothing else . You may be angry with my presumption , but I ca n't help telling you that I love you . That 's all . I just want you to know it . '' Sara had turned away her head . Jeffrey was overcome with contrition . Ah , he had no business to speak so -- he had spoiled the devotion of years . Who was he that he should have dared to love her ?
Silence alone had justified his love , and now he had XXXXX that justification .
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