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my darling" Gregory said. his
arms about her what else-fee1ine
Is We feel-could I have done?"
Held in his embrace, she rested her
hands upon his shoulders. and looked
wistfully into his eyes.
1T is as we feel, isn't it," she said,
Il mean. it isn't only me? You-you
loved me?"
Looking down at her dropped, vel.
vety. lashes, feeling the warm strong
beat OF her heart against his, holdins
close as he did all her glowing and
fragrant beauty. Warren Gregory felt
IT the most exquisite moment of his
life. Her YOUTH her history, her
wonderful poise and sureness so in.
toxicatinsly linked with all a. girls
unexpected shyness and adorable un-
certainties. all these combined to en-.
thraH the man who had admired ner
Tor many years and loved her TO,
more than one ".
Love you?" he asked, claiming
again the lips she yielded with such a
delicious widening of her eyes and
quickening of breath.
You see. Warren" she said pres.
emily, I'm n a. girl. 1 give myself
to you with a knowledge and a Joy
no girl could possibly have. I don,
want to coquette and delay. I want
to be your wife. and to learn your
faults, and have you learn mine, and
I'VE years--ten years married! Oh
you don't know how I long to be ten
years married. T. shan't mind a. BIT
being nearly forty. Forty-doesn't i,
sound settled, and sedate-and that.
what I want. IL shall love getting
gray, and feeling hat you and I DOM
care so much about going places
don't you know? Wen like better
just being home together. won't we ?
We're older than most people nov
aren't we?"
He laughed aloud at the brish,
face 50 enchantingly young in its re-
stored beauty. He had expected tc
ind her charming, but in this new
phase Of siriishness, OF happiness. she
was a thousand times more charmtnr
than he had dreamed. 1t was hard
to believe that this eager girl in a
striped blue and yellow and purple
skirt, and rough white crash hat. was
the bored. the remote, the much.
feared Mrs. Clarence Breckenridge
Something free and sweet and vir.
born in her. She raj like no phase
OF. the many phases in which he had
known her; she was a Rachael who
had never known the sordid. the dis.
i~llusdonins atde Of life. Even her &c.
robustness had the confident, cage,
quality OF youth, and her Eayety was
- pure as q child's. She had cast Cd
the old sophtstication. the old reck.
le6sness Of speech; she VA not ever
interested in the. old associates. The
world for. her was all ia him and
their love for each other, aud she
walked back to ouakerlBridee. at hi
side, too wholly swept away from all
eelf-coneclousne ss to know or to care
that they were at once the target for
al eyes.
a wonderful day followed, many
wonderful days. Doctor GreEory's
great touring car and his livAried
man were at Mrs Dimmjck's door
when they got back, an i~ncongruoua
note in little Quaker Bridge, Still
gasping from the great storm.
Your carr" Rachael said. "You
drove DOWN."
Yesterday. I put up at valen-
tine's-George Valentines. you know,
at Clark's Hills.'
"oh. that's my nice lady-Eray
haired. and with three children" Ra-
chael. said eagerly. ~Do you know
""Know her? Valentine IL my
closest associate. They meet us in
town tomorrow: he's to be best man.
You'll have to have them to dinner
= month for the rest Of your
Tho picture brought her happy
doIor. the shy look he loved.
Tn esad.s Greg. ! like her TN
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