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第7章 THE GARDENS OF PLEASURE

She walked upon the beds, and the sweet rich scent arose; and she gathered her hands full of flowers.Then Duty, with his white clear features, came and looked at her.Then she ceased from gathering, but she walked away among the flowers, smiling, and with her hands full.

Then Duty, with his still white face, came again, and looked at her; but she, she turned her head away from him.At last she saw his face, and she dropped the fairest of the flowers she had held, and walked silently away.

Then again he came to her.And she moaned, and bent her head low, and turned to the gate.But as she went out she looked back at the sunlight on the faces of the flowers, and wept in anguish.Then she went out, and it shut behind her for ever; but still in her hand she held of the buds she had gathered, and the scent was very sweet in the lonely desert.

But he followed her.Once more he stood before her with his still, white, death-like face.And she knew what he had come for: she unbent the fingers, and let the flowers drop out, the flowers she had loved so, and walked on without them, with dry, aching eyes.Then for the last time he came.And she showed him her empty hands, the hands that held nothing now.

But still he looked.Then at length she opened her bosom and took out of it one small flower she had hidden there, and laid it on the sand.She had nothing more to give now, and she wandered away, and the grey sand whirled about her.

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