Marriage. H. G. Wells

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      "Marjorie!" said Mr. Magnet, as though there had been no pause, "if you would consent only to make an experiment, if you would try to love me. Suppose you tried an engagement. I do not care how long I waited...."

      He paused. "Will you try?" he urged upon her distressed silence.

      She felt as though she forced the word. "Yes!" she said in a very low voice.

      Then it seemed to her that Mr. Magnet leapt upon her. She felt herself pulled almost roughly from the embrasure, and he had kissed her. She struggled in his embrace. "Mr. Magnet!" she said. He lifted her face and kissed her lips. "Marjorie!" he said, and she had partly released herself.

      "Oh don't kiss me," she cried, "don't kiss me yet!"

      "But a kiss!"

      "I don't like it."

      "I beg your pardon!" he said. "I forgot——. But you.... You.... I couldn't help it."

      She was suddenly wildly sorry for what she had done. She felt she was going to cry, to behave absurdly.

      "I want to go down," she said.

      "Marjorie, you have made me the happiest of men! All my life, all my strength I will spend in showing you that you have made no mistake in trusting me——"

      "Yes," she said, "yes," and wondered what she could say or do. It seemed to him that her shrinking pose was the most tenderly modest thing he had ever seen.

      "Oh my dear!" he said, and restrained himself and took her passive hand and kissed it.

      "I want to go down to them!" she insisted.

      He paused on the topmost rungs of the ladder, looking unspeakable things at her. Then he turned to go down, and for the second time in her life she saw that incipient thinness....

      "I am sure you will never be sorry," he said....

      They found Mr. and Mrs. Pope in the churchyard. Mr. Pope was reading with amusement for the third time an epitaph that had caught his fancy—

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