The book The Happy Hypocrite: a Fairy Tale for Tired Men was written by author Max Beerbohm Here you can read free online of The Happy Hypocrite: a Fairy Tale for Tired Men book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Happy Hypocrite: a Fairy Tale for Tired Men a good or bad book?
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Therefore do not kneel to me, but rise and suffer me to kiss your hand. For my love of you is lowly, and my heart is all yours. " But he answered, looking up into her fond eyes, "Nay, you are a queen, and I must needs kneel in your presence. " And she shook her head wistfully, and she knelt down, also, in her tremulous ecstasy, be- fore him. And as they knelt, the one to the other, the tears came into her eyes, and he kissed her. Though the lips that he pressed to her lips were only waxen, he t...hrilled with happiness, in that mimic kiss. He held her close to him in his arms, and they were silent in the sacredness of their love. From his breast he took the posy of wild flowers that he had gathered. 39 THE HAPPY HYPOCRITE "They are for you, " he whispered, "I gath- ered them for you, hours ago, in this wood. See! They are not withered. " But she was perplexed by his words and said to him, blushing, "How was it for me that you gathered them, though you had never seen me?" "I gathered them for you, " he answered, "knowing I should soon see you.
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