PART III LOVE
CHAPTER 110
READING OF THE HEART BY SIGNS
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1091. Two are the looks of her eye: one of them tortureth the heart, but the other is the balm that healeth it.
1092. The furtive lightning glance that is turned on the lover the moment that his eyes are turned aside, is not merely the half of love: it is more than a moiety.[1]
1093. She looked, and then she bowed : that was the watering of the young plant of love that was springing between us.
1094. When I look at her, she looketh at the ground: but when I look away, she looketh on me and solely smileth.
1095. She doth not seem to see me, it is true : but she smileth to me the while she affecteth but to wink an eye.
- ↑ For it giveth more joy than all the other tricks of the beloved taken together.
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