I -- I -- thought you could n't love me any more -- I could n't bear the thought of looking in your eyes and seeing aversion there . '' Walter Grant leaned forward . `` Look in my eyes , Avery . Do you see any aversion ? '' Avery forced herself to look . What she saw covered her face with a hot blush . `` Did you think my love such a poor and superficial thing , Avery , '' he said sternly , `` that it must vanish because a blemish came on your fairness ? Do you think that would change me ? Was your own love for me so slight ? '' `` No -- no , '' she sobbed . `` I have loved you every moment of my life , Walter . Oh , do n't look at me so sternly . '' `` If you had even told me , '' he said . `` You said I was never to try to look on your face again -- and they told me you had gone away . You sent me back my ring . '' `` I kept the old one , '' she interrupted , holding out her hand , `` the first one you ever gave me -- do you remember , Walter ? When we were boy and girl . '' `` You robbed me of all that made life worth while , Avery . Do you wonder that I 've been a bitter man ? '' `` I was wrong -- I was wrong , '' she sobbed .
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