"But you cannot always be my nurse, Janet: you are young -- you
must marry one day."
"I don't care about being married."
"You should care, Janet: if I were what I once was, I would try
to make you care -- but -- a sightless block!"
He relapsed again into gloom. I, on the contrary, became more
cheerful, and took fresh courage: these last words gave me an
insight as to where the difficulty lay; and as it was no difficulty
with me, I felt quite relieved from my previous embarrassment. I
resumed a livelier vein of conversation.
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