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` If you do so no more you will forgive yourself ; but only so , ' returned Purity . `` They moved along again and the man spoke earnestly and humbly of the wonders that had befallen them . '' ` To Love , all things are possible , ' returned the child ; ` but to Love only ; ' and her companion listened to all she said , with a full heart . `` By noon that day , an inaccessible cliff stared the travelers in the face . Its mighty crags bathed their feet in a deep pool , and up , up , for hundreds of feet , ran a smooth wall of rock in which no one might find a foothold . `` The man stared at it in silence , and it seemed to frown back inexorably . His companion watched his face and read its mute hopelessness . ''