They are very fond of playing Chopin
on a mechanical piano while the moonlight streams over the floor of the
open veranda."
Here Harding broke in sharply. "You began by differing with me on the
possibility of finding complete happiness in life, and you have done
nothing but refute your own position from the very first. I admit there
are certain essentials toward the perfect life that you have not
mentioned, but I haven't the least doubt that you already possess them
or that they will come to you in time. I mean such things as riches or
love."
"Ah, love," Pinckney murmured, and the shadow of a cloud passed over his
divine brow.
"Surely," I said, "_you_ have not sought for what love has to give and
sought in vain?"
"No," he replied thoughtfully, "I have not failed to win love. But does
love bring with it untouched felicity; that is what I ask." He
hesitated. "I will not attempt to describe her. I really could not, you
know, except in a feeble way, by saying that even to other eyes than
mine she is a woman more wonderful than any of my sisters, if that is at
all possible.
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