Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-04-27
She shook her head. mo, mop

She shook her head. ''No, moi"
"Yet something is different. have
searched so hard to find what it is. l
have seen you at the routs and have
danced with you. but you are not the
same. AT Greenway Court, there where
the leaves were fnlling-I wish it could
have been so always, us two, in the
forest-you were kinder and not SO cold
to mev'
'.Marquisr There was splendor of
color in her face, bent sweet to him.
Her eyes, tinted and lustrous, were
gay beneath the warm glimmer of her
hair. -
"Marquis!" repeated the young man,
flushing. 81 was not that to you in the
forest. found then that you were
not like the ladies of my land, who
know naught save grandeur and titles,
but that you could be above such
things, that you We're such one us l
have dreamed must be somewhere.
ask you only to be to me as you were
then-as you were that day when the
governor came back-when sat with
you OH the hillside. Can you forget,
mademoiselle, that l am not just the
same that was thenY
"You are so much more. Then did
not know who you Were"
II would the governor had not come"
he said. 81 would have remained to
you just the same as had been-the
same as when for one moment held
you in the broken coach, and that mo-
ment when opened my eyes at Green
way Court and saw your face"
She felt her hands trembling, her
heart beating its way through her
breast. His voice was very low as he
went on:
"a man finds some time the one of
all the world he would not have cold
to him. He may never have seen her
her whom he has looked for all his life
the woman in his heart! But he al
ways knows her when he hears her
| speak! He can never know when or
where that may be. 1t is at the ball or
walking in the street or riding in a
coach. That day, mademoiselle-and
it was before you knew was just
NJ. Armand, not the Marquis de Ia
Trouerie. l was not great then, but
just man-and unworthyw
"No," she said, her tone tremulous;
mot unworthy. That night at the
tavern in Misunderstanding was the
brayest thing had ever seen-the
noblest! Do you think anything, any
thing, could make me forget that?"
"And you would have come to me
But now-but now
She looked at him with little vi
brant thrill OF pride. How sweetly
blind he was! "Now?" she asked.
Now l can only ask you to remem
Der that 1t was NJ. Armand, not tn,
marquis, who knelt to you when yol
laid your hand on his head that nigh
at Winchester, with the whippoorwil
and the moonlight, and who told you
what he is trying to tell you now, wha
he tried to tell you when you saw hin
lying at Greenway Court, only 70,
would not listen.'
She turned to him look that was oil
melting, all tenderness, all confusion Of
impulses, look that caught him ant
held him spellbound.
"You kissed me-" cried Armand in {
triumphant voice. "You kissed me! Il
was not a dream! Look in my eyes,"
She looked at him, paling, feeling hel
hands imprisoned in his own. HI
laughed with low, fierce delight, fol
her breath was quick, her eyes like
mist and fire.
do you love me?" he hreathed, y
sudden passion leapfng in his voice
"Do you love me?" He caught her
close to him. The whole world turned
beneath her feet, and the stars shook.
'My gold rose! Tell me! Is it SOL"
She moved her head with q mingled
gesture of pride, of shame Of yielding
Of assent Then with little cry, fright
ened yet joyful, she felt his arms, mas
terful. draw her close to him and stool
trembling, joyous, wave of love en-
quilting her.
ANSWER me-" he said. "The nigh
we sat in the rustic house and the SUI
was big red flower closing. You re
member what asked you?'
"Yes."
"If the man you lovcd-if I-shoult
come to be mean and unworthy befor
the world"-
But you are not"
"If were?"
"My kingw
IF you saw me sneered at. despised
but Still loving, still worshiping"-
II would love you! would Low
gou!"
A light came over his face, brilllan
and pale. with the love that is til
all, that is greater than the world, tina
is above station, above honors, abov
name? That outlasts them ala"
Her arms went up about his neck
and their lips met in first long kiss.
GALL" she whispered. "All! All! Lou
is! My beloved!"
.
Anne peered into the warm library o
GLADDEN. Hall, all aglow with he
strange new delight. The fire was low
and looming embers made the dus
> rosy and uncertain. She smiled as sh
saw the dim figure sitting with fee
outstretched. just the top of the pow
dered peruke showing over the back o
, the big chair.
n With her finger on her lips in that in
I stinctive pnntomilne that belongs t
, woman, she stole across the floor o.
4 tiptoe and, swooping suddenly, clappe,
, her cold palms over the eyes of the soil
tary occupant and laughed gayly as h
, started and put warm hands to he
, chill ones.
II have secret to tell you," sh
breathed with a tluttering laugh, "an'
. you mustn't look ut me when say II
l wonder If any one in Virginia can b
i rs happy us / am. The Marquis de i
, Trouerie-uncle, lie has asked me t