My dream is dead . It could not live when it was betrayed . And it was all I had . Oh , laugh at me -- mock me ! I know that I am ridiculous ! What of it ? It never could have hurt you ! 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 .
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