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A Life’s Morning

CHAPTER III
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Yes, there shall be no concealment far better so.' 'You have no fear of the views they will take ?' 'None!' he said, with characteristic decision.

'If they are unreasonable, absurd, our course is plain enough.

You will be my wife when I ask you to, Emily ?' She faltered, and held her hand to him.
'Is it worth while to go hack to Oxford ?' he mused, caressing the fingers he had kissed.
'Oh, yes; you must,' Emily urged, with a sort of fear in her sudden courage.

'You must not disappoint them, your father, your friends.' 'My fair wise one!' he murmured, gazing rapturously at her.

'Oh, Emily, think what our life will be! Shall we not drain the world of its wisdom, youth of its delight! Hand in hand, one heart, one brain--what shall escape us?
It was you I needed to give completeness to my thought and desire.' The old dream, the eternal fancy.


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