To have you here, you mean-in reach and yet out of reach? To meet you …

Edith Wharton
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To have you here, you mean-in reach and yet out of reach? To meet you in this way, on the sly? It's the very reverse of what I want. ✨ Edith Wharton (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated), p.2162, Delphi Classics
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