As soon as you attract my love, I shall come. I do not want to make a present of myself. I want to be won.”
On a later occasion she told me another fairy-story. There was a lover, who loved without hope of success.
He withdrew entirely into himself and thought his love would consume him.
The world was lost to him, he saw the blue sky and the green wood no longer,
he did not hear the murmuring of the stream, or the notes of the harp;
all that meant nothing to him, and he became poor and miserable.
But his love grew, and he would much rather have died and have made an end of it all
than renounce the chance of possessing the beautiful woman whom he loved.
Then he suddenly felt that his love had consumed everything else in him, it became powerful and exercised an irresistible attraction,
the beautiful woman had to follow, she came and he stood with outstretched arms to draw her to him.
But as she stood before him, she was completely transformed,
and with a thrill he felt and saw that he had drawn into his embrace the whole world, which he had lost.
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