[Jeanne of the Marshes by E. Phillips Oppenheim]@TWC D-Link bookJeanne of the Marshes CHAPTER XIX 10/16
We have tried many things in life. Let us make one last throw, and try the land of Arcady." He looked at her, at first in amazement.
Afterwards some change seemed to come into his face, called there, perhaps, by what he saw in hers. "Ena," he said, "you mean it ?" "Absolutely," she answered.
"Fortunately we are both free, and we can set our peasants an absolutely respectable example.
You shall be farmer and I will be housewife.
Nigel, it is an inspiration." He bent over her fingers. "I wonder," he murmured, "if there is good enough left in me to make it worth your while." Late that afternoon another caller thundered at the door of the house in Berkeley Square.
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