For no more than ten seconds had I gazed into her face, and the soul of her, the real woman behind the fair outwardness, had looked back into my eyes; but I had never been able to forget it.
She had always had great self-command--it was one of the things he most admired in her, one of his greatest grievances against her, because he had never been able to tell what she was thinking.
She knew that he loved her, could not help knowing, for he had never been able to keep it out of his eyes and voice.
There was something at the base of that statue of his dreams that always troubled him, that the people always pointed at as they gazed; but he had never been able to make out what it was there at the base of the statue.
Yes, it had come to him--come to him at last, the base of that statue that he had never been able to see before.
He had never been able to do anything seriously, or even to make up his mind quite what great thing he was going to do.
All the interest which I had never been able to find in the soul, I found in what I only vaguely apprehended of the body.
There was a flash about them at times that moved people, a peculiarity withal that even her father had never been able to understand.
When the prelate bade him good-by that day, he had never been able to get out of his mind the idea that the other had convicted him in his own heart, and had purposely avoided his company.
He had never been able to interpret it, he could not now.
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