Tom Swift in the City of Gold, or, Marvelous Adventures Underground
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ASTA. [Eluding him.] To me! No, no, Alfred! That is quite
impossible.
ALLMERS. [Looks sadly at her.] Then Borgheim stands in the way
after all?
ASTA. [Earnestly.] No, no; he does not! That is quite a mistake!
ALLMERS. Good. Then I will come to you--my dear, dear sister. I
must come to you again--home to you, to be purified and ennobled
after my life with--
ASTA. [Shocked.] Alfred,--you are doing Rita a great wrong!
ALLMERS. I have done her a great wrong. But not in this. Oh, think
of it, Asta--think of our life together, yours and mine. Was it not
like one long holy-day from first to last?
ASTA. Yes, it was, Alfred. But we can never live it over again.
ALLMERS. [Bitterly.] Do you mean that marriage has so irreparably
ruined me?
ASTA. [Quietly.] No, that is not what I mean.
ALLMERS. Well, then we two will live our old life over again.
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