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94 WILD MARGARET.»
- when‘he comes to his senses, and:finds who it is that has
saved him from committing social suicide. He will owe |
‘us a deep debt of gratitude, Lottie.”’ | a
~ “T hope he'll think so,” she said, rather doubtfully, and
witha little shudder; ‘‘if he shouldn’t—well, I don’t think -
Paris will be far enough off for me, and as for you ”’—anc¢
she smiled strangely and significantly —‘‘ well, I wouldn't
care to insure your life, Mr. Austin Ambrose.”
He laughed as he shook hands with her.: an
‘““My dear Lottie, Blair will know that we have been his
best friends, and will be grateful accordingly. Good-night.
: / Mind, not a word to a soul!” .
‘‘No,’’ said Lottie, grimly; ‘‘ I’m not likely to proclaim
_ this business from the housetops. This is a play that it
Hi _ will be best not to advertise. Good-night!’
| .
!
- . CHAPTER XII. |
fo . Marearet had read those lines of Swinburne’s: _
tu a — ‘* Nothing is better, I well think, i
ba re Than love; the hidden well-water. - rs
a Is not so delicate to drink.
** Nothing so bitter, I well know,
ne Than love; no amber in:cold sea,
s Or gathered berries under snow,” .
; -* and she remembered them; they came floating up through
yl her memory during the still hours of the night. following |
Lord Blair’s passionate avowal.. -
it had taken her so completely by surprise that even
yet she had scarcely realized what this was that had hap-
A pened to her. Be a
She had read of love, had painted it, bnt hitherto she:
- and it had been perfect strangers; and now—and now all
the wonderful, mysterious sweetness of it suffused -her
whole being. ‘tHe loves me! he loves me!’’ she found
« herself repeating over and over again in a species of half-_
unconscious rapture; and asshe murmured the significant
words she hid her face in her hands, and the words he
had spoken came. surging back on her ears and in her
: _. heart, and she could still feel his hot passionate kisses on -
i her hands and hair, — ee
: _ All the next day she lived like one in a dream. 7
_ » Sheneverasked herself whether she had acted wisely or
even rightly in listening to him; or promising to meet him
Poy again. Wisdom and propriety were swamped. and over
whelmed by the full tide of love which had taken posses-
sion of her. | .
Once there flashed upon her the thought that she ought
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