Word: glycerium
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...most difficult burden was the incommunicability of love." Chrysis thinks she has grown beyond passion, but in spite of herself falls in love with Pamphilus, most silent of her guests, the son of the principal man on the island. But one day Pamphilus meets Chrysis' younger sister, Glycerium, who has been kept hidden in the house, and who has stolen out for a walk. They become lovers; when Glycerium is pregnant she tells her sister, who is ill, and the shock hastens Chrysis' death. Glycerium dies too, in childbirth; the queer household is sold into slavery; and nothing...
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