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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1910 Original Publisher: J.B. Lippincott Company Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Literary Collections / General Literary Collections / American / General Literary Collections / Essays Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / American / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. I FALL INTO A PLEASANT BONDAGE. " Then you are not ill ? " my friend was saying, as I dismounted and drew near. " You are not dying? Thank God for that! " " 111? " echoed the lady. " Dying? Nonsense! Look at me! " " You are adorable! " he cried, and kissed the hands he held in his. " Sad I have been, " she went on, blushing but still gazing fondly up at him. " That was because you were away from me, in danger yonder. Yet I tried to be brave, for I knew that you were serving your country and that you would not forget me." " Forget you! " he repeated; and my own heart warmed in sympathy as he gazed down at her, his eyes alight. Ah, here was no match prearranged no marriage of convenience, but a true mating. So true that there could be about it no false pride, no dissimulation or pretense of indifference; so true that it was still the lover talking to his mistress, as well as the husband talking to his wife. I know it is the custom in certain circles in the great cities to sneer at all this -- to seek love anywhere but in the family circle; but we of the provinces are not like that. Do not think it. We livecloser to the heart of things -- closer to nature, closer to each other, closer to the good God -- and I think we are sounder at cor
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