The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-16
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CHAPTER TX.

CHAPTER TX.
Felicien was at her feet Until now he
had kept his place in the remote corner of
the balcony. But in the intense happiness
she gave him in thus unfolding the inner
most secrets of her soul, he had drawn himself
on his knees toward her, as he approached
the window. This great, illimitable joy
was so unlocked for that he yielded to it in
all the infnitude of its hopes for the fut-
uure
He half whispered:
"Ah, dear soul, pure, kind and beautiful,
your wonderful goodness has cured me as
with breath! l know not now if l have
ever suffered. And, in your turn, you will
now have to pardon me, for have an &C
acknowledgement to make to you. Unjust tell
you who | am"
He was troubled at the thought he could
no longer disguise himself OF his position
since she had confided so freely and entirely
in him. 1t would be disioyal in the highest
degree to do So Yet he hesitated, lest he
might, after all, lose her, were she to be
anxious about the future when at last she
knew the facts.
little malicious, IN spite of herself.
In a very low voice he continued:
Il have told a falsehood to your par
ents"
Eyes. know it." she said, as she smiled
No, YOU do not know it, you could not
possibly know it, for all that happened too
long ago. I only paint on glass for my
own pleasure, and as simple amusement;
you really ought to be told of that"
Than with CI1ipk nOVamnnt she mt her
hand en- his mouth, as if she wished to pre-
vent this explanation.
81 do not care to hear any more. have
been expecting you. l knew that sooner or
later you would come, aud you have done
so. That is all sufficient"
They talked no longer for awhile. That
little hand over his lips seemed almost too
great happiness for him.
When the right time comes, then l
shall know all. Yet l assure you that
am ignorant of nothing connected with
you, for everything had been revealed to me
before our first meeting. You were to be,
and can be, only the handsomest, the
riches, and the most noble of men, the one
above all others; for that has ever been my
dream, and in the sure certainty of its full
accomplishment l wait calmly. You are
the chosen hero who it was ordained should
come, and am yours"
A second time she interrupted herself in
the trenor of the words she pronounced.
ohe did not appear To say them by herself
alone; they came to her as if sent by the
beautiful night from the great white heav-
ems, from the old trees and the aged stones
sleeping outside and dreaming aloud the fan
cies Of the young girl. From behind her,
voices also whispered them to her, the voices
or her friends in the Golden Legend, with
whom she had peopled the air and the space
around her. In this atmosphere she had ever
nved-mysticism in which she revelled until
u seemed fact on one side, and the daily
work OF life on the other. Nothing seemed
strange to her.
i, Now but one word remained to be said
mat which would express all the long wait
lng, the slow creation of affection, the con-
santly increasing fever Of restlessness. 1t
escaped from her lips like a cry from dis
ahce from the white flight of a bird mount
lug upward in the light of the early dawn,
hind her.
i love YOU"
Angellque, her two bands spread out bent
onward towards Felcien. And he recalled
~ himself the evening when she ran bare
bToted through the grass, making SO adora-
eiea picture that he pursued her in order
/ s1alnmer III her ears these same words: II
I've you" He knew that now she was sim
Ky replying to him with the same cry of af-
teclon, the eternal CRY. which at last came
''V =, a. her freely opened heart
Is, love you. ] am yours. Lead the
hs hay and will follow you wherever it may
AZ W this surrender of her soul she gave her
bs- 70 him fully and entirely. 1t was the
s,gultary flame relighted within her; the
cue aorle and the passion she thought had bee n
4ueFed. but which swoke at the wish OF