New-York tribune., 1903-07-23
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me; she is thinking only of the hateful woods
ard the brook,
Yes: it is foamy up above But IT Is very s,iH
just here"
As stin as your eyes--''Tnozt Vow win she
understand me-
silence
Amy"
Silence
Amy. don't you know ,ha5 I love your on.
foot. fool he thought to throw away even
hope,
You realy-love mef'
oh. Amy. Amy. Amy"
Il am very-slad. dear StH she sat with
her face averted. looking into the water. and
her voice was low that he feared he vas
dreaming. till he. too. looking into the water.
saw that she crying silently. Then. with
a surge Of his heart. he took her In his arms
where he had longed 10 hold her. and kissed her
eyes her hair. her lips. as he had 1onged to kiss
her. And she smiled at him through her tears
and thanked God
Shall we never be done with hurrying 70 our
joy, though know 50 sorrowfuIy well how
soon We must hurry away from it? or are We
wiser than We know, and is delay fatal 70 the
capture OF the rainbow's gold
"Oh. little girIr'
She drew herself from him gently and up
straight. the tears running down her face and
her eyes still smiling through Il don't know
why foolish" she told him. broksnly.
unless because am-so very happy. dear. Are
I your
/ Was Bradford?
| oh she cried. 7 thought YOU didn't care
you never told me-
( He had never told her, Had his eyes his lips
/ even ever told her OF anything else2
| But thought-men always said those things
/ to girls"
| Not as he had said them. Men did not look az
/ girls he had looked at her.
! oh she cried. teach me to tell you ] love
/ you so! 1t is all shut up here" She laid her
/ hand upon her bosom while II rose and fell II
! can't speak. I thought that you must think
/ hated yOu-or something-because I was 80
/ dumb. and yet I couldn't say anything different
/ Shall 1 learn some day to tell you-hOw love
| your She shook with her vehemence till Brad
ford was amazed He soothed her. and whis-
pered to her till she grew calmer by and by Il
/ have never talked to any one she said Il
don't know how. Why. I never had anything 20
say till you came. dear! You are so clever
can you teach me little? 1 feeI-I feel as II
there had been something in my heart that
cried. cried. and nobody came; and now you've
come. All. dear. I'm glad you've Gomez
He teach her a little? He clever? He was
not clever to-day. nor was he thinking Of him
| self. He was humble and afraid Already he
I
dreamed before: and-was it for that reason be
! was afraid?
You are so good to love me- she told him.
He good? He took her hands almost timidly.
| and showed her how white they were against
his own. And that was her goodness and his
No; he was base. Ill tempered. ungenerous-so
he was running 10 enumerate all the bad
/ qualities in the list except-ah. that exception
we all make!-except the one he sometimes
! feared when she drew her hands away. and laid
her fingers lightly his lips
| Hush, dear!' she asked. Il can't hear you
speak so. You must hush You are brave and
strong and true oh. know know what you
have done. Don't you remember the very first
! time I ever saw you-when you sang to those
poor people on the train? Was that ungeuerous.
and base and III tempered I Pited them All
just as YOU did. but what could 7 do was
! too weak even TO help with the hurt ones only
sat there and cried till you began 70 sing. and
| then somehow I felt. even when could hardly
hear you for the noises. that some one vas
there. strong and brave and steady and things
/ couldn't go all wrong"
But. sweetheart It isn't that 7 mean I
/ don't think I'm coward. But He paused.
unable TO find words and she interrupted him
/ "A coward? Dear. do you remember night
/ when YOU made a speech to the men out at The
/ college. and told them what was right, though
| you knew they would hate you FOR ttf think
I think that began-ought not to tell you
/ that? And to-day. when YOU jumped IN 70 Eet
/ that little boy-do you think it was selfish and
/ cowardly OF you-do you know that I should
/ have hated him always II you had been hurt2-
/ do YOU think IL was selfish and cowardly Of you
/ n do that No dear. you must Just hush.
7 please
/ Bradford heard her. There were many things
| 80 r,tzb+ have told her then Reproach him
/ who can because he was silent Alas! instead
Of remaining humble and afraid. he felt as he al
ways felt when he was praised. and monen-
| tarilv took her words for truth-poor young
! hero. who had so much TO fight against that ons
/ can hardly deny him admiration even for tho
broken unfinished effort he had made an In
stant before.
They sat there while the dropped and
dipped and the gray twilight crept slowly out
Of the woods and sprang on them suddenly; ana
| Bradford listened to what not many OF Us ere
allowed to hear, and saw what few or Us evs-
see II is true that, when all IS said. mankind
IS still pretty close 70 nature. There ara few
men and not many more women who WIN not
stop 10 watch bud unfolding 70 flower Bur
to Bradford was given TO watch the heart OF a
girl unfolding 10 the flower OF woranhood- Tns
sight is rare. Buds open naturally, but we hsTs
civilized the girls until such as Amy DO not m
the old sirniIe. grow on every bush She spoke
TO Bradford as freely as she thought-mors
freely than she had ever thought before Shs
ed not know OF the proverb that woman
should be kissed. but man crossed She knew
only that she had discovered love
rs II evening? Why. II can't be EVENING"
Well. come. Francis and VIII tell uncle
DO you think that we had better. to-nightr
.IIe would see Il anyway she laughed But